The Encyclopedia Of Trouble And Spaciousness
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The Encyclopedia Of Trouble And Spaciousness
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The Encyclopedia Of Trouble And Spaciousness written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Social Science categories.
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the lyricism of a poet to achieve incandescence and wisdom. Gathered here are celebrated iconic essays along with little-known pieces that create a powerful survey of the world we live in, from the jungles of the Zapatistas in Mexico to the splendors of the Arctic. This rich collection tours places as diverse as Haiti and Iceland; movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring; an original take on the question of who did Henry David Thoreau’s laundry; and a searching look at what the hatred of country music really means. Solnit moves nimbly from Orwell to Elvis, to contemporary urban gardening to 1970s California macramé and punk rock, and on to searing questions about the environment, freedom, family, class, work, and friendship. It’s no wonder she’s been compared in Bookforum to Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard and in the San Francisco Chronicle to Joan Didion. The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness proves Rebecca Solnit worthy of the accolades and honors she’s received. Rarely can a reader find such penetrating critiques of our time and its failures leavened with such generous heapings of hope. Solnit looks back to history and the progress of political movements to find an antidote to despair in what many feel as lost causes. In its encyclopedic reach and its generous compassion, Solnit’s collection charts a way through the thickets of our complex social and political worlds. Her essays are a beacon for readers looking for alternative ideas in these imperiled times.
A Field Guide To Getting Lost
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-08-06
A Field Guide To Getting Lost written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-06 with Philosophy categories.
With a new afterword by the author In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit’s beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.
Half Light
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Author : Amy Kaler
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2024-08-22
Half Light written by Amy Kaler and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-22 with Travel categories.
Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. She explores “ruins” of the human history of the North American settler west—faded hamlets, bunkers, fields of cars, bends in the river—that serve as emblems of hope, generational commitment abandoned by contemporary heirs, faith, hubris, even carelessness. These stops are intertwined with reflections on aging, temporality, and change, making the book feel like a deeply satisfying road trip with a thoughtful friend. Moving from meditative to ardent to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion.
Thinking Of Questions
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Author : Peter Limm
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-09-23
Thinking Of Questions written by Peter Limm and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-23 with Self-Help categories.
This is not a conventional book. It is designed to stimulate and challenge all people who are curious to find out about the world they inhabit and their place within it. It does this by suggesting questions and lines of questioning on a wide range of topics. The book does not provide answers or model arguments but prompts people to create their own questions and a reading log or journal. To this end, almost all questions have a list of books or articles to provide a starter for stimulating further reading. Once you start, you will be hooked! Never stop questioning.
Waking To Nature With Thoreau And Benjamin
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Author : Rod Giblett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2025-05-01
Waking To Nature With Thoreau And Benjamin written by Rod Giblett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
What do two white men born in the century before last have to say that could possibly be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse, the end of the age of fossil fuels and much life on earth, and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics? Turns out, a lot, especially for waking to nature, place, life, social injustice, environmental destruction, industrial capitalism and its technologies. Henry David Thoreau – an inspiration for William Melvin Kelley's writing on 'staying woke' – and Walter Benjamin suggest sensory means for waking the consumer asleep under the “phony spell” of the “putrid magic” of the commodity; provide tools of theory and critique for waking to sexism, racism, and placism; empower the weak with a robust vocabulary for telling the stories of people and places; create resources of hope and limit the prospect of despair about the future; and point to pathways for being at home with the living earth. These are all vital facets of psychopolitical ecology. Waking to Nature with Thoreau and Benjamin discusses topics both writers share in common, such as memory, dreaming, waking, walking, water, swamps, lakes, the body, and the senses, and highlights convergences and divergences between them. It is the first book of psychopolitical ecology and the first to bring together these two timely thinkers and writers for whom life is the union of materiality and spirituality.
Writing Wild
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Author : Kathryn Aalto
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-06-23
Writing Wild written by Kathryn Aalto and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." —Cultivating Place In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Part travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens, head outdoors, and start writing wild.
Best Of 2015
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-17
Best Of 2015 written by and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Selections from Trinity University Press's best books of 2015.
Deep House
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Author : Jeremy Atherton Lin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2025-06-03
Deep House written by Jeremy Atherton Lin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Queerty's Spring 2025 LGBTQ+ Books Roundup From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love. It’s 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams — a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit — just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.” With Atherton Lin’s inimitable blend of tenderness and wicked humor, Deep House moves through the couple’s string of rented apartments while unlocking doors to a lineage of gay men who have come before — smuggling a foreign partner through national checkpoints or going public to stand up for the right to get down in the privacy of their own homes. They include hapless criminals, sexpot bartenders, friars, pirates, government workers who subverted the system, activists who went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the celebrated artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Following Gay Bar — called “a rich tapestry” by Vanity Fair and “an absolute tour de force” by Maggie Nelson — Deep House juxtaposes whispered disclosures of undocumented domesticity with courtroom drama and political stunts to explore myriad forms of intimacy while questioning the mechanisms that legitimize love. Deep House is at once a historical kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.
Black Swan Song
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Author : Rod Giblett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Black Swan Song written by Rod Giblett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique life and work of Rod Giblett. For over 25 years he was a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist, and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has researched, written, and published more than 25 books in the environmental humanities, especially wetland cultural studies, and psychoanalytic ecology. Black Swan Song traces Rod’s early and later life and work from being born in Borneo as the child of Christian missionaries, through his childhood in Bible College, being a High School dropout and studying at three universities to becoming an academic, activist and author, and now a writer. Following in the footsteps of New Lives of the Saints: Twelve Environmental Apostles, Black Swan Song also comprises conversations in conservation counter-theology between the twelve minor biblical prophets and twelve environmental apostles, such as Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Rachel Carson. It also introduces the lives and works of twelve more environmental apostles, such as John Clare, Rebecca Solnit, John Charles Ryan, and others who have made a valuable contribution to green thinking and living. Black Swan Song mixes modes and genres, such as memoir, essay, story, criticism, etc., making up the writer’s black swan song. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times by providing resources of a journey of hope for learning to live bio- and psycho-symbiotic livelihoods in bioregional home habitats of the living earth and in the Symbiocene, the hoped-for age superseding the Anthropocene.
Change For A Penny
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Author : Sue Skalicky
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-01-28
Change For A Penny written by Sue Skalicky and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-28 with Self-Help categories.
Our life story from this day forward doesnt have to mimic the pain of our past. Men and women who are equipped and empowered to revise the narration of past-life incidents can learn to narrate a story of joy, confidence, and hope as life unfolds. The characters that share our daily stage may add drama, humor, and sometimes even horror to our life stories, but we dont have to be at their mercy. Acknowledging the roles of others, learning how to draw healthy boundaries, and knowing the value and benefits of inviting these characters to play a significant role in our story can lead to living out a rich and rewarding story line. Our lives are not an accident. Instead, we encounter incidents on a daily basis that can often be quite unexpected and unnerving. But shifting our paradigm about these happenings from accidental to incidental can open our hearts and minds to great opportunities. Daily, we are faced with many decisions to be a victim or live in victory. Which will you choose?