Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is excited to welcome Gwynne Dyer and Rebecca Solnit to the shop to discuss and sign their new books, Dyer's Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, a prescient and unflinching examination of some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communites That Arise in Disaster, an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption, on Tuesday, September 14 at 7pm. In her essays, Rebecca Solnit traces thematic junctions in art and cultural history and establishes detailed parallels with the direct present and contemporary political activism. Her knowledgeable and courageous work has been compared with that of Susan Sontag. Solnit was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for her work, and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a columnist for Orion and publishes regularly in the environmental magazine Sierra as well as in art journals, museum catalogs and the website tomdispatch.com. She lives in San Francisco. Gwynne Dyer is one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts. He has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, author, broadcaster, and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years. His column is published by 175 newspapers around the world and is translated into more than a dozen languages. He is the author of several books, including War, Future: Tense and The Mess They Made.