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Wanderlust
Rebecca Solnit
This personal essay on walking takes many turns through Western history, philosophy, science, and literature--yet returns always to walking's physical and spiritual rewards. read more
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A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
It has often been put forth that people demonstrate their genuine goodness after a disaster, but Rebecca Solnit is the first to attempt an extensive investigation of this phenomenon....... read more
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Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
Arguing that the "uprising" against the War in Iraq was actually a victory, not a defeat, the author traces the many interwoven threads of the anti - globalization and anti - war movements,...... read more
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River of Shadows
Rebecca Solnit
RIVER OF SHADOWS details the relationship between Eadweard Muybridge, the English-born photographer, and the state of California. Solnit examines Muybridge's experiments in film and...... read more
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As Eve Said to the Serpent
Rebecca Solnit
In this collection of 19 essays, Rebecca Solnit writes about calendars of nature photography, the tie between walking and physics, natural history museums, and more--most of them focusing...... read more
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Hollow City
Rebecca Solnit
Reporting from the front line of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit examines the consequences when artists' love for space and authenticity in working - class areas, and...... read more
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Savage Dreams
Rebecca Solnit
The author relates her travels through the West and her realization how life in the West has been shaped by the environmental wars of the present and the Indian wars of the past. read more
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Motion Studies
Rebecca Solnit
In this biography of Eadweard Muybridge, famous for his motion studies of horses (which ushered in the age of the motion picture), author Solnit covers the innovator's unusual life...... read more
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