A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Paperback - Rebecca Solnit

From the author of Men Explain Things to Me - -A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters- (The New York T...

In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. ...

Reducere. In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his fath...

Reducere. In aceasta colectie de eseuri feministe, Rebecca Solnit ofera comentarii despre femeile carerefuza sa fie reduse la tacere, despre violenta, despre...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Generations of children have delighted in the nursery rhyme about Jack and his house. Starting with the familiar refrain ``This is the house that J...

John Davies takes you on his journeys of 60 years travelling through most of Europe and North America, and invites you to share his wonderful train...

Reducere. How well are you keeping up with the hottest topics in our world today?Should we legalize marijuana?Are the Kardashians good or bad for feminism?Is...

Reducere. Description"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibbe...

Reducere. Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" is a prose poem loosely divided into nine parts. In one part of the poem the poet portrays quite transparently ...

Reducere. An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollec...

Subtitled The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism, Solnit's latest considers the irresponsible spatial effects of Silicon Va...

DescriptionA collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, a...

A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and othersPublisher: Granta Book...

Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.

These twists on familiar tales make the perfect Christmas gift. 'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...'I...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural worl...

"The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time."--Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many ...

Reducere. El libro más esperado de la gran pensadora feminista, autora de Los hombres me explican cosas un memoir iluminador sobre su educación sentimental y...

A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.Publisher: Granta...

Inside the minds of the world's most depraved serial killers

In March 1971, Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis and a small gypsy-like band of friends set off for the Colombian Amazonas.

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to unlock the hidden potential of its introverted readers which is why it essentially outlined their greatest strengths...

Reducere. A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in ...

Reducere. The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation's capital as a backdrop. Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning...

Reducere. Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three a...

Reducere. DEAD IN PARADISE... Key West is paradise--unless you're the dead woman in the Toucan Suite. The Hemingway cats, Megs and Bartholomew, who wander th...

Commissioned by the Blanton-Peale Institute, Cultivating Wholeness is a practical, comprehensive, contemporary guide to community care and counseli...

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Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Reducere. What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many l...

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Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural worl...

DescriptionThis 20" x 20" map, created by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and originally featured in their New York atlas Nonstop Metropol...

Reducere. In aceasta colectie de eseuri feministe, Rebecca Solnit ofera comentarii despre femeile care refuza sa fie reduse la tacere, despre violenta, despr...

An unparalleled account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building of the railroad that united Ameri...

Reducere. The Roaring Twenties: America is dancing to jazz, gangsters are selling bootleg liquor, and the New York Yankees are building a baseball dynasty. I...

A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines.

In aceasta colectie de eseuri feministe, Rebecca Solnit ofera comentarii despre femeile care refuza sa fie reduse la tacere, despre violenta, despr...

Book 14 in The Euphemia Martins Murder Mystery series

DescriptionOn June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company's Engine #7 and its passengers were greeted by a tremendous storm en route to Atlanta, G...

Reducere. Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories chronicles the important contributions of those whose last home on this earth is the Tuskegee University Cemet...

Combining memoir, history and philosophy, Solnit takes us on a beautiful exploration into loss, losing and being lost, and the challenges of living...

A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer fin...

Reducere. This how-to guide explains how to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and Jewish life. Weisenberg presents a veritable treasure house...