SOLNIT REBECCA

(P/B) Wanderlust
Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together numerous stories to create a new way of looking at one of humanity's most fundamental and expressive acts. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit home...
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(P/B) Recollections of My Non-Existence
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that preferred women to be silent. Liberated by West Coast activism, growing gay pride and punk rock, she broke through oppression and over time transformed into a writer and activist who speaks for the marginalised - galvanised to use her own voice for change. Recollections of My Non-Existence is the landmark memoir from a voice of a generation, and a rally cry for genera...
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(H/B) MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME
Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings. From rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage and the nuclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays a...
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ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΣΤΟ ΣΚΟΤΑΔΙ
"Θέλω να φωτίσω ένα παρελθόν το οποίο πολύ σπάνια αναγνωρίζεται, ένα παρελθόν στο οποίο η δύναμη των ατόμων και των άοπλων ανθρώπων είναι κολοσσιαία, στο οποίο η κλίμακα των αλλαγών στον κόσμο και στη συλλογική φαντασία κατά τις τελευταίες λίγες δεκαετίες είναι εκπληκτική, στο οποίο τα θαυμαστά πράγματα που έχουν συμβεί μπορούν να μας οπλίσουν ώστε να διεισδύσουμε με θάρρος στο σκοτεινό μέλλον". Αναλύοντας πρόσφατες ιστορικές εξελίξεις -από το Τείχος του Βερολίνου μέχρι τις αποφάσεις του Ανωτάτου Δικαστηρίου για το γάμο των ομοφυλοφίλων- ...
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ΣΤΑΧΤΟΠΟΥΤΑ
Σε αυτή τη σύγχρονη εκδοχή του κλασικού παραμυθιού, η Σταχτοπούτα συναντά τη νονά της, πηγαίνει στον χορό και γνωρίζει τον πρίγκιπα. Κολοκύθες και ποντικάκια έχουν κι αυτά τον ρόλο τους, κάπου εδώ όμως η ιστορία, όπως την ξέρουμε, τελειώνει. Αντί να περιμένει κάποιον να τη σώσει, η Σταχτοπούτα μαθαίνει ότι μπορεί η ίδια να σώσει τον εαυτό της και να βοηθήσει τους γύρω της, καθώς και να παλέψει για τη ζωή της, κάνοντάς την πιο όμορφη για όλους. Στο πρώτο παιδικό βιβλίο της, η Ρεμπέκα Σόλνιτ αναπλάθει το αγαπημένο παραμύθι, με μια φρέσκια Στ...
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(P/B) HOPE IN THE DARK
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit ...
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(P/B) A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST

(H/B) THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS
Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings empathy to the silences in men's lives as well as the silencing of women's lives; celebrates the ways feminism has shifted in recent years to reclaim rape jokes, revise canons, and rethink our everyday lives..(From the publisher)...
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(P/B) RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NON-EXISTENCE

(P/B) NONSTOP METROPOLIS
Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts - from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists - amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot Queen...
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(P/B) UNFATHOMABLE CITY
Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local experts, as well as the coauthors' compelling contributions. Featuring 22 full-color...
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(P/B) INFINITE CITY
What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's ...
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(P/B) WANDERLUST
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Rom...
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