The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change($38.14Value)

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MP3 CD Format Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller  Hope in the Dark , Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world. Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster. Call Them by Their True Names won the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West won the Lannan Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the London Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.