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Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era

Product Description: art: Jess, Berman, DeFeo, Conner, Hedrick, Herms

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780872862548 | City Lights Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: art: Jess, Berman, DeFeo, Conner, Hedrick, Herms

Ann Hamilton: Sao Paulo/Seattle : A Document of Two Installations

By Chris Bruce, Rebecca Solnit and Buzz Spector

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9780935558296 | Henry Art Gallery, August 1, 1992, cover price $25.00

Ranch

Product Description: Fascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture. In his cinematic novel Ranch, Michael Light reveals as much about the myth as he does about the specific traditional California ranch that he photographs...read more

By Michael Light and Rebecca Solnit

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9780944092255 | Twin Palms Pub, October 1, 1993, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Fascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture.

Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West

Product Description: "A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."―Larry McMurtry In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U...read more

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780871565266 | Sierra Club Books, September 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: 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

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9780520282285 | 20 anv edition (Univ of California Pr, June 6, 2014), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: "A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.

9780679766605 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Behind the scenic beauty of the American West is a bloody history of conquest, conflict, and exploitation.

Tracing Cultures: Albert Chong, Lewis Desoto, I.T.O., Young Kim, Komar & Melamid, Dinh Q. Lee, Gavin Lee, Maria Martinez-Canas, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Carrie Mae Weems

Product Description: Photographic images by artists of diverse cultural backgrounds further the understanding of contemporary immigration and the changing face of America in Tracing Cultures. Themes central to the emerging definitions of multiculturalism are explored by recent photography and photo-related installation art that deals with issues of origin, acculturation, adjustment, displacement, and loss within the context of contemporary American life...read more

By Albert Chong, Lewis Desoto, Friends of Photography (photographer), Museum of Photographic Arts (other contributor), Rebecca Solnit (editor), Ronald T. Takaki (editor) and University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography (photographer)

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9780933286696 | Friends of Photography Bookstore, October 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Photographic images by artists of diverse cultural backgrounds further the understanding of contemporary immigration and the changing face of America in Tracing Cultures.

Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach

Product Description: This collection of photographs form part of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series. They feature the beauty, mystery and abuse of the American desert with images as diverse as secret nuclear test sites, space shuttle landings, arts happenings and natural disasters.

By Rebecca Solnit and Anne Wilkes Tucker

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9780821222546 | Bulfinch Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This collection of photographs form part of Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos series.

Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Photographs of Richard Misrach

By Richard Misrach, Houston Museum of Fine Arts (corporate author), Rebecca Solnit and Anne Wilkes Tucker

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9780890900697 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston, November 1, 1996, cover price $40.00

A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland

The author describes her experiences traveling in Ireland, and shares her impressions of the countryside

By Rebecca Solnit

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9781859848852 | Verso Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author describes her experiences traveling in Ireland, and shares her impressions of the countryside

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9781844677085 | 2 revised edition (Verso Books, September 5, 2011), cover price $16.95

9781859841860, titled "Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland" | Verso Books, June 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Recounts the author's travels in Ireland, with reflections on the microcosm of Irish history, with its invasions, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism

Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West

Product Description: In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century laterâ1951âand about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U...read more

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780520220669 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2000), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

A cultural history of walking explores the ancient practice, from ancient Greece to the present, delving into Wordsworth, Gary Snyder, Rousseau, Jane Austen, and other cultural and literary icons to show how this basic activity has been imagined throughout history. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Rebecca Solnit

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9781859846230 | Verso Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A pastoral and poetic investigation of the politics, philosophy and human pleasure in the activity of walking.

9780670882090 | Viking Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A cultural history of walking explores the ancient practice, from ancient Greece to the present, delving into Wordsworth, Gary Snyder, Rousseau, Jane Austen, and other cultural and literary icons to show how this basic activity has been imagined througout history.

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9780140286014 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A cultural history of walking explores the ancient practice, from ancient Greece to the present, delving into Wordsworth, Gary Snyder, Rousseau, Jane Austen, and other cultural and literary icons to show how this basic activity has been imagined througout history.

9780756777906 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.00

The Sky Book

Product Description: Richard Misrach has redefined contemporary landscape photography with his images of the splendor and destruction of the American West. Each of his "cantos" considers another chapter in the epic story of humankind and the land. Far from portraying the pristine landscapes of early practitioners such as Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, or Ansel Adams, Misrach's compelling and often troubling images of the American West pose important questions about the human impact on the natural world...read more

By Richard Misrach and Rebecca Solnit

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9781892041289 | Arena Editions, October 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Richard Misrach has redefined contemporary landscape photography with his images of the splendor and destruction of the American West.

Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

Product Description: Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Susan Schwartzenberg (illustrator) and Rebecca Solnit

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9781859843635 | Verso Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents.

As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art

A multidisciplinary compilation of nineteen incisive essays ranges from the formality of traditional art criticism to intimate, lyrical meditations as they explore nuclear test sites, the meaning of national borders and geographical features, and the idea of the feminine and the sublime.

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780820322155 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A multidisciplinary compilation of nineteen incisive essays ranges from the formality of traditional art criticism to intimate, lyrical meditations as they explore nuclear test sites, the meaning of national borders and geographical features, and the idea of the feminine and the sublime.

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9780820324937 | Univ of Georgia Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $28.95

The Journey of the Flame

Product Description: A slow ride through exotic territory On the night of his 104th birthday, Don Juan Obrigon--tall and straight, with hair still flaming red--prepares to tell his life story to assembled relatives and guests. The story he will tell describes his travels as a boy of twelve in 1810, when he accompanied the Spanish viceroy of Baja California from the southern tip of Baja California to Monterey...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Walter Nordhoff and Rebecca Solnit (foreword by)

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9781890771584 | Reissue edition (Heyday Books, January 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A slow ride through exotic territory On the night of his 104th birthday, Don Juan Obrigon--tall and straight, with hair still flaming red--prepares to tell his life story to assembled relatives and guests.

Extreme Horticulture

Product Description: American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature. This is a photographic survey of gardening at its boldest, most bizarre and most exuberant. Among the plants featured are vast flowers, terrifying sculptural cacti, outlandish topiary and extraordinary bonsai: these gardens were planned and planted by true eccentrics, with surreal creativity and great humour...read more

By John Pfahl and Rebecca Solnit (introduced by)

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9780711220126 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature.

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Product Description: The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnitâs new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity...read more

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780670031764 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover.

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9780142004104 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 2004), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover, tracing how his life reflected America in the nineteenth century.

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9781417704729 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it.

Motion Studies: Time, Space And Eadweard Muybridge

Giving a portrait of the age of high speed innovation, this is a biography of Eadweard Muybridge, the Englishman who invented motion picture technology.

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780747568414 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, April 19, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Giving a portrait of the age of high speed innovation, this is a biography of Eadweard Muybridge, the Englishman who invented motion picture technology.

Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

Product Description: At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to Seattle in 1999, and the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq - Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement...read more

By Rebecca Solnit

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9781841956602 | Canongate Books Ltd, June 16, 2005, cover price $15.20 | About this edition: At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope.

A Field Guide To Getting Lost

A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience. By the author of River of Shadows and Wanderlust. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780670034215 | Viking Pr, July 7, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.

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9780143037248 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 27, 2006), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.

After the Ruins, 1906 And 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake And Fire

Compares photographs taken just after the fires of the 1906 earthquake with new photos of modern San Francisco from the same vantage points, in a photo essay created in conjunction with the exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California. Simultaneous.

By Karin Breuer, Mark Klett, Michael Lundgren and Rebecca Solnit

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9780520244344 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Compares photographs taken just after the fires of the 1906 earthquake with new photos of modern San Francisco from the same vantage points, in a photo essay created in conjunction with the exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California.

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9780520245563 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Compares photographs taken just after the fires of the 1906 earthquake with new photos of modern San Francisco from the same vantage points, in a photo essay created in conjunction with the exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California.

Ira Nowinski's San Francisco: Poets, Politics, And Divas

A collection of three decades worth of unforgettable faces captures the diverse peoples of San Francisco, from the beat poets of North Beach and the opera divas to the tenant organizers and cigar-smoking old Italians. Original.

By Ira Nowinski, Rebecca Solnit (foreword by) and Jack Von Euw (contributor)

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9781597140409 | Heyday Books, October 1, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A collection of three decades worth of unforgettable faces captures the diverse peoples of San Francisco, from the beat poets of North Beach and the opera divas to the tenant organizers and cigar-smoking old Italians.

Inside Out

Product Description: As the Right to Buy has progressed an increasing proportion of properties sold have been flats rather than houses. Sales of flats grew after the introduction of higher discounts for flats in the Housing and Planning Act 1986. The buoyancy of the housing market in the late 1980s also encouraged sales...read more

By Rebecca Solnit

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9780117530874, titled "Leaseholders and Service Charges in Former Local Authority Flats" | The Stationery Office/Tso, July 1, 1995, cover price $55.00 | also contains Leaseholders and Service Charges in Former Local Authority Flats | About this edition: As the Right to Buy has progressed an increasing proportion of properties sold have been flats rather than houses.

Inside Out