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Author: Rebecca Solnit
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520262492

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Download Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically--connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo. Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures--butterfly habi Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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