{"product_id":"the-beginning-comes-after-the-rebecca-solnit-9798228930469","title":"The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this sequel to her enduring bestseller \u003ci\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Solnit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228930469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tantor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.51h x 5.61w x 0.61d","brand":"Rebecca Solnit","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48588576522495,"sku":"9798228930469","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beginning-comes-after-the-rebecca-solnit-9798228930469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}