{"product_id":"9781623491772","title":"Facing It: Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, \u003ci\u003eFacing It\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorism and climate change. Inviting us on walks through tame suburbias (riddled with environmental abuse) and wild deserts and mountains (shadowed by industrial development), he celebrates the survival of natural beauty and people living close to the earth while questioning truisms associated with both economic advancement and environmental purity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, this book invites the reader to \u003ci\u003eface it:\u003c\/i\u003e to look with wide-open eyes on a new nature that will never be the same, but that continues to offer opportunities for renewal and advancement of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148729598192,"sku":"9781623491772","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623491772_p0.jpg?v=1763861815","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623491772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}