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A Book of Migrations (Fully Updated New Second Edition)
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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"A brilliant meditation on travel."—The New York TimesIn this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colon...Read More

Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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art: Jess, Berman, DeFeo, Conner, Hedrick, Herms ...Read More

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That ...Read More

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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Hope in the Dark is an exploration of optimism in an era of seeming defeat and cultural pessimism. When the worldwide movement against war in Iraq failed to persuade the Bush administration against military action, many activists felt that their actions had been futile, their voices ignored. This bo...Read More

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Py...Read More

True North
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit, Jennifer Blessing
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True North features the work of contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based work evokes the formal conventions of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Romantic antecedents, the works in this exhibition ...Read More

Michael Lundgren: Transfigurations
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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Historically, landscape photography was used as a means of documenting geographic and scientific exploration. Later it transitioned into a way to record nature and the spectacle of human progress. Rarely has it been employed more abstractly to convey an atavistic or ecstatic experience as it is in t...Read More

Ira Nowinski's San Francisco: Poets, Politics, And Divas
Book Title Author(s) : Ira Nowinski
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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Book Title Author(s) : Philip L. Fradkin, Rebecca Solnit
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark...Read More

Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
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The best way to learn history is to visualize it! Since 1998 Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters by over eighty artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrat...Read More

 

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