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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. "Not too late" brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most(...)
Not too late: Changing the climate Story from Despair to Possibility
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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. "Not too late" brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, "Not too late" features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including "The Tyranny of Oil" author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown.
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American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature. 'Extreme Horticulture' is his photographic survey of gardening and the natural landscape at its boldest, most bizarre and most exuberant. Subjects include huge bright orange Japanese maples, Jeff Koons' monumental Puppy, and The Largest Fig Tree in the United States.(...)
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September 2003, London
John Pfahl : extreme horticulture
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American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature. 'Extreme Horticulture' is his photographic survey of gardening and the natural landscape at its boldest, most bizarre and most exuberant. Subjects include huge bright orange Japanese maples, Jeff Koons' monumental Puppy, and The Largest Fig Tree in the United States. Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed caption.
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In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories, of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyriths, of walking clubs and sexual mores, to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social(...)
Wanderlust: a history of walking
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In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories, of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyriths, of walking clubs and sexual mores, to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit hones 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 romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of the mountaineers. Solnit's book finds a profound relationship between walking and thinking, walking and culture, and argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in an evermore automobile-dependent and accelerated world.
Journeys
L'art de marcher
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Au fil de son étude, Rebecca Solnit évoque les pèlerinages, les marches de protestation, les flâneries urbaines, les promenades propices à la réflexion des écrivains ou des philosophes, le nomadisme des comédiens et des musiciens, les voyages à pied des compagnons du devoir et différentes pérégrinations qui, parfois, constituent de véritables rites de passage. S'appuyant(...)
L'art de marcher
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Au fil de son étude, Rebecca Solnit évoque les pèlerinages, les marches de protestation, les flâneries urbaines, les promenades propices à la réflexion des écrivains ou des philosophes, le nomadisme des comédiens et des musiciens, les voyages à pied des compagnons du devoir et différentes pérégrinations qui, parfois, constituent de véritables rites de passage. S'appuyant sur des citations et des anecdotes, elle montre à quel point on saisit le monde à travers le corps, et le corps à travers le monde.
Journeys
Garder l'espoir
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Qui aurait pu imaginer, il y a vingt ans, que le mur de Berlin tomberait ? Et que Nelson Mandela deviendrait le président d'une Afrique du Sud transformée en profondeur ? Qui aurait deviné que les Indiens du Mexique se révolteraient et que les débats sur l'écologie seraient suivis, un peu partout dans le monde, de réels progrès ? L'écrivain et activiste politique Rebecca(...)
Garder l'espoir
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Qui aurait pu imaginer, il y a vingt ans, que le mur de Berlin tomberait ? Et que Nelson Mandela deviendrait le président d'une Afrique du Sud transformée en profondeur ? Qui aurait deviné que les Indiens du Mexique se révolteraient et que les débats sur l'écologie seraient suivis, un peu partout dans le monde, de réels progrès ? L'écrivain et activiste politique Rebecca Solnit plaide, dans cette analyse des grands mouvements contestataires récents (de 1989 à nos jours) pour un changement radical de notre point de vue : Et si l'espoir était de mise ?
Critical Theory
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When Hope in the Dark was first published, it resonated with readers everywhere. In these days of cultural and political pessimism, Rebecca Solnit's impassioned defense of hope is both necessary and inspiring. Now, in this new, significantly expanded edition, Solnit explores the political territory of America following George Bush's re-election, and the ongoing(...)
Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities
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When Hope in the Dark was first published, it resonated with readers everywhere. In these days of cultural and political pessimism, Rebecca Solnit's impassioned defense of hope is both necessary and inspiring. Now, in this new, significantly expanded edition, Solnit explores the political territory of America following George Bush's re-election, and the ongoing consequences of the war in Iraq.
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December 2005, New York
Critical Theory
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These photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed, or not, over time.
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February 2008, San Antonio
Yosemite in time: ice ages, tree clocks, ghost rivers
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These photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed, or not, over time.
Gardens
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A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her journey through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
A book of migrations: some passages in Ireland
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A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her journey through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
Landscape Theory
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To Rebecca Solnit, the word 'landscape' implies not only literal places but also the ground on which we invent our lives and confront our innermost troubles and desires. The organic world, to Solnit, gives rise to the social, political, and philosophical landscapes we inhabit. In these nineteen quirky, smart, and wryly humorous pieces, Solnit ranges across disciplines to(...)
As Eve said to the serpent: on landscape, gender, and art
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To Rebecca Solnit, the word 'landscape' implies not only literal places but also the ground on which we invent our lives and confront our innermost troubles and desires. The organic world, to Solnit, gives rise to the social, political, and philosophical landscapes we inhabit. In these nineteen quirky, smart, and wryly humorous pieces, Solnit ranges across disciplines to explore nuclear test sites, deserts, clouds, caves, and the meaning of national borders - as weel as ideas of the feminine and the sublime as they relate to our physical and psychological terrains.
Landscape Theory
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The virtues of being open to new and transformative experiences are rhapsodized but not really illuminated in this discursive and somewhat gauzy set of linked essays. Cultural historian Solnit, an NBCC award winner for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, allows the subject of getting lost to lead her where it will, from early American(...)
A field guide to getting lost
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The virtues of being open to new and transformative experiences are rhapsodized but not really illuminated in this discursive and somewhat gauzy set of linked essays. Cultural historian Solnit, an NBCC award winner for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, allows the subject of getting lost to lead her where it will, from early American captivity narratives to the avant-garde artist Yves Klein. She interlaces personal and familial histories of disorientation and reinvention, writing of her Russian Jewish forebears' arrival in the New World, her experiences driving around the American west and listening to country music, and her youthful immersion in the punk rock demimonde. Unfortunately, the conceit of embracing the unknown is not enough to impart thematic unity to these essays; one piece ties together the author's love affair with a reclusive man, desert fauna, Hitchcock's Vertigo and the blind seer Tiresias in ways that will indeed leave readers feeling lost. Solnit's writing is as abstract and intangible as her subject, veering between oceanic lyricism ("Blue is the color of longing for the distance you never arrive in") and pensées about the limitations of human understanding ("Between words is silence, around ink whiteness, behind every map's information is what's left out, the unmapped and unmappable") that seem profound but are actually banal once you think about them.
Architectural Theory