{"product_id":"the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-notes-on-a-world-of-change-signed-independent-bookstore-edition","title":"PRE-ORDER The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change - SIGNED Independent Bookstore Edition!","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Rebecca Solnit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaymarket Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4\/21\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9798888908785\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a pre-order! Orders containing this title will ship on 4\/21\/26.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA special Independent Bookstore Edition! Limited run hardcover and signed for Independent Bookstore Day!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this sequel to her enduring bestseller \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/em\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this remarkably lucid and fluent chronicle of social change over the last six decades or so, the course of her lifetime, she traces profound shifts in perceptions and convictions regarding race, gender, equality, and the environment. Confirming that we're in the midst of a massive backlash as the right attempts to undo everything from the promise of renewable energy to efforts at achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion, Solnit argues that this reaction is due to already profound and ultimately unstoppable societal transformations. Solnit's holistic anatomy of the dynamics of change is precise, compelling, and deeply clarifying.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e-- Donna Seaman, \u003cem\u003eALA Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"A convincing vision of a brighter future. A climate and human rights activist, Solnit examines the insidious consequences of the ideology of isolation, to which she attributes current virulent efforts at suppression, fear of diversity, and denigration of ideas considered \"woke.\" Instead, she offers persuasive evidence of the acknowledgment of the connection of humans to wilderness, nature, and one another: local groups cleaning up salmon streams and watching the fish return; an energy revolution focused on renewables; the impact of anti-racist, feminist, immigrant, disability-rights, and queer-rights movements; the emergence of environmental awareness in creating laws and systems to protect the natural world; the shift to decolonization globally.\" -- \u003cem\u003eKirkus,\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the author of more than 25 books, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"Orwell's Roses\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/orwells-roses-pb\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrwell's Roses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"Hope in the Dark\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/hope-in-the-dark-untold-histories-wild-possibilities?variant=34712430723\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"Men Explain Things to Me\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/men-explain-things-to-me-1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"text-link\" title=\"A Paradise Built in Hell\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/paradise-built-in-hell\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and the advisory boards of Dayenu and Third Act.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52073133506843,"sku":"Beginning Comes After SIGNED","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/9798888908785.jpg?v=1776463316","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-notes-on-a-world-of-change-signed-independent-bookstore-edition","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}