Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature /

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Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
©2014
Edition:First edition.
Series:Seventh generation.
Subjects:
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
1900-2099
Environmentalism > United States > History > 21st century.
Environmentalism > United States > History > 20th century.
College teachers > United States > Biography.
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
College teachers
Environmentalism
Environmentalists
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Overture. End of a world
  • Influence and confluence: family, nature, war
  • Ecology then: the lake of tears
  • Dispelling dejà vu, part one
  • Dispelling dejà vu, part two
  • Defying apocalypse
  • Apocalypse redux and the fate of sustainability
  • No illusions, no fantasy, no melodrama: the legacy of Rachel Carson
  • Epiphany matters
  • Imagination wild and tame: the smell of money
  • The presence of roadkill
  • Reprise. World's end: seeing and sustenance.

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