Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Title: Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Author: Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 9780143118077 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Published: 2010 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Social Science 1536689 Publisher Description: A New York Times Notable Book Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune "A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters" --The New York Times Book Review"Solnit argues that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a summons to rediscover the powerful engagement and joy of genuine altruism, civic life, grassroots community, and meaningful work." --San Francisco Chronicle A stirring investigation into what happens in the aftermath o