Best Selling Books by Rebecca Solnit

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber''s most important essays and interviews. \"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,\" wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes. There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future—to imagine a social order based on humans’ fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time— inequality, technology, the identity of “the West,” democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest—he challenges the old assumptions about political life. A trenchant critic of the order of things, and driven by a bold imagination and a passionate commitment to human freedom, he offers hope that our world can be different. During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . , edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovksy and with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, make for essential and inspiring reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber’s enduring significance as an iconic, playful, necessary thinker.

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, from Afghanistan and Iraq through Guantnamo and extraordinary rendition, Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold, and the misbegotten ''clash of civilizations.'' Introduced and edited by Tomdispatch''s creator Tom Engelhardt, The World According to Tomdispatch is the essential primer for anyone seeking guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world.

Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.

\"A stimulating compendium\" on topics from antibiotics to animals, featuring Rebecca Solnit, E.O. Wilson, Nicholas Carr, Elizabeth Kolbert, and many more ( Kirkus Reviews). \"A consistently strong series . . . Making connections between seemingly unrelated topics can help expand thinking, as seen in the effects of automated navigation on both airplane pilot error and Inuit hunting accidents that Nicholas Carr explores in ''The Great Forgetting.'' Sarah Stewart Johnson makes a similar connection between the loss of a 1912 Antarctic expedition and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in ''O-Rings.'' . . . Essays like Virginia Hughes''s ''23 and You'' investigates the effects of availability of individual genetic information on human interactions, while pieces like Maryn McKenna''s ''Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future'' and Kate Sheppard''s ''Under Water'' remind us of unpleasant futures which we have in large part created ourselves. But Barbara Kingsolver''s ''Where it Begins,'' a lyrical musing on connectedness, or Wilson''s optimistic, bug-loving ''The Rebirth of Gorongosa,'' reveal that among the strange, shocking, or depressing, there is still unadulterated joy to be found.\" — Publishers Weekly \"Undeniably exquisite . . . meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.\" —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Contributors include: Katherine Bagley • Nicholas Carr • David Dobbs • Pippa Goldschmidt • Amy Harmon • Robin Marantz Henig • Virginia Hughes • Ferris Jabr • Sarah Stewart Johnson • Barbara J. King • Barbara Kingsolver • Maggie Koerth-Baker • Elizabeth Kolbert • Joshua Lang • Maryn McKenna • Seth Mnookin • Justin Nobel • Fred Pearce • Corey S. Powell • Roy Scranton • Kate Sheppard • Bill Sherwonit • Rebecca Solnit • David Treuer • E.O. Wilson • Carl Zimmer

What happens to society when we are not held back by the neoliberal narrative?

«Ich liebe dieses Buch, und viele andere werden das auch tun. Ein berauschender Streifzug durch Orwells Leben und seine Zeit – und durch das Leben und die Zeit der Rosen.» Margaret Atwood «Ein Buch über Abgründe und Erdbeeren – ein Buch über das Pflanzen von Rosen trotz des Zustands der Welt.» Der Spiegel «Neben meiner Arbeit interessiert mich am meisten das Gärtnern», schrieb George Orwell 1940. Mit Erstaunen erkennt Rebecca Solnit nach einem Besuch im Garten von Orwell, wo seine Rosen noch heute blühen, dass es die Natur war, die Orwell Kraft gab, unermüdlich anzuschreiben gegen Faschismus und Totalitarismus. Die Verquickungen von Macht und Schönheit führen Rebecca Solnit aus Orwells Garten zu den drängenden Fragen unserer Gegenwart, die sie bereits in den dreißiger Jahren angelegt sieht. Sie findet koloniale Hinterlassenschaften in Blumengärten, erkennt in Stalin mit seiner Besessenheit, Zitronen am Polarkreis züchten zu wollen, einen Vorläufer der «Klimaskeptiker» und sieht in der Rosenindustrie ein Paradebeispiel globalisierter Ausbeutung. Rebecca Solnit macht sich unerschrocken auf in neue Gefilde – ihre Lektüre sensibilisiert für unsere Welt, spendet Trost und stellt sich, trotz allem unerschütterlich optimistisch, den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. «Orwells Rosen» ist eine bemerkenswerte Reflexion über Lebenslust und Schönheit als Widerstandsakt.

Yosemite is a world-famous location that has attracted famous photographers such as Eadward Muybridge, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams, environmental organizations, rock climbers, and tourists. This book puts the park in a new light, with rephotography of some of the most enduring photos taken at Yosemite and three essays by noted critic Rebecca Solnit. The photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America''s conception of wilderness, questioning how the park was defined by its first visitors and offering new ideas for an America--and a park--that has changed dramatically since tourists first set foot in Yosemite Valley. Jarring and insightful, this is an intimate reconsideration of a park that millions of people hold dear.--From publisher description.

The beauty, mystery, and abuse of the American desert are topics explored by Richard Misrach in his breathtaking Desert Cantos series, one of the most ambitious and innovative photographic projects of our time. Evolving over the course of two decades, the series now comprises eighteen numbered and named subseries, or cantos, and a prologue. With subjects as diverse as a military base in Utah, a man-made flood in California, sublime skies in Arizona, and arts happenings in Nevada, Richard Misrach''s images raise probing and compelling questions about contemporary society''s relationship to the desert. Included in this beautifully illustrated book are more than sixty Desert Cantos photographs that have never before been published, as well as some of the artist''s best-known and most-admired images. This monumental publication, the first comprehensive survey of Richard Misrach''s epic work-in-progress, serves as an exhibition catalogue for a major midcareer retrospective organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show will tour in the United States (venues include Tucson, Tacoma, and Chicago).

El acto de perderse tiene muchas dimensiones: si es posible perderse en un territorio, también lo es extraviarse mentalmente, perder el rumbo en sentido figurado y literal, desorientarse y desaparecer. Pero la pérdida puede llevarnos a un hallazgo, y es esta sutil transacción la que Rebecca Solnit explora con inteligencia y sensibilidad en estos ensayos. Desde las expediciones extraviadas en el continente americano hasta la pérdida de la memoria familiar, la representación de lo perdido en la distancia y en el tiempo y la extinción de especies naturales, este libro nos embarca en una travesía afectiva e intelectual por las muchas formas de la perdición y, sin brújula aparente, encuentra a cada paso imágenes y observaciones perdurables. Publicada en inglés en 2005, Una guía sobre el arte de perderse es una de las obras fundamentales de Rebecca Solnit, y se publica por primera vez en español en esta edición.

Los hombres me explican cosas, de Rebecca Solnit, es una de las obras que más han conmovido en los últimos años el debate internacional sobre la violencia contra las mujeres. Compilado y publicado en inglés por primera vez en 2014, el volumen reúne ensayos sobre las formas de silenciamiento del género femenino, desde el mansplaining hasta la pandemia de femicidios que afecta tanto a Oriente como a Occidente, y que Solnit aborda como demostraciones de distinto grado de una misma enfermedad cultural que se expresa a través del odio a las mujeres. Anterior a movimientos como Ni una menos y #MeToo, Los hombres me explican cosas es un libro pionero que pone en perspectiva histórica y mundial, entre otras cuestiones, el problema de la credibilidad de las víctimas de violaciones, las luchas por los derechos de las mujeres y los movimientos de concientización y denuncia de los abusos que afectan en todo el mundo a la población femenina, y con ella a la sociedad humana en su conjunto. Un libro urgente y necesario, Los hombres me explican cosas es a su vez una introducción a la obra sustanciosa de Rebecca Solnit, y a su pensamiento al mismo tiempo vasto y enfocado, que cautiva por su claridad, su honestidad y su entereza.

Pourquoi les hommes se sentent-ils obligés d''expliquer aux femmes ce qu''elles savent déjà ? D''où vient leur certitude de savoir mieux qu''elles ce qu''elles doivent penser, ou faire ? Peut-être de l''Histoire, qui a constamment relégué les voix des femmes au silence. Dans ce recueil d''essais où la colère le dispute à l''intelligence et à l''humour, Rebecca Solnit explore une nouvelle façon de penser le féminisme. Et fournit des armes pour les luttes à venir. Traduit de l''anglais (États-Unis) par Céline Leroy

Publié en Amérique en 2018, Appelons un chat un chat dissèque les crises américaines pendant la campagne et le mandat de Donald Trump. Solnit y dépeint un pays fracturé, en proie plus que jamais aux discriminations raciales, sexistes et sociales. Dans la langue incisive qu’on lui connaît, elle aborde également des sujets comme le changement climatique, l’instrumentalisation de la violence, la montée du nationalisme... Si l’Amérique est son terrain de prédilection, elle montre que ses analyses valent pour l’ensemble de nos sociétés contemporaines. Elle invite non au pessimisme mais à l’action citoyenne collective, à un espoir éclairé et éclairant. Avant d’agir, il faut nommer les oppressions et les obstacles avec précision. Appelons un chat un chat pour changer, peut-être, le monde. Née en 1961, Rebecca Solnit est une des intellectuelles contemporaines les plus influentes et singulières de notre époque. Avec le célèbre Ses hommes qui m’expliquent la vie (L’Olivier, 2018) elle a théorisé la notion de mansplaining devenue incontournable. Mettre les mots sur ce qui abîme notre monde, telle est sa mission de livre en livre.

Em seu ensaio icônico \"Os Homens Explicam Tudo para Mim\

In Mannen leggen me altijd alles uit maakt Rebecca Solnit duidelijk hoe onze samenleving nog altijd is doortrokken van ongelijkheid tussen de seksen. In het titelessay introduceert ze het verschijnsel dat inmiddels bekendstaat als ‘mansplaining’. Waarom gaan mannen ervan uit dat ze alles weten? En, minstens zo erg, waarom laten vrouwen zich gewillig de mond snoeren? Marja Pruis laat in het voorwoord haar licht schijnen op het fenomeen Solnit. ‘Verhelderend, geruststellend en nog grappig ook. Mijn boek van het jaar.’ LENA DUNHAM ‘Solnit is idealistisch op de enige geloofwaardige manier: woedend op de werkelijkheid zonder blind te zijn voor de complexiteit.’ DE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER ‘Scherpzinnige, eigentijdse reflecties over de ongelijkheid tussen mannen en vrouwen.’ THE NEW YORK TIMES