{"product_id":"the-pine-island-paradox-making-connections-in-a-disconnected-world-paperback","title":"The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Dean Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit, despite the notion that nature and humans are somehow separate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoore's essays, deeply felt and often funny, make connections in what can appear to be a disconnected world. Written in parable form, her stories of family and friends--of wilderness excursions with her husband and children, camping trips with students, blowing up a dam, her daughter's arrest for protesting the war in Iraq--affirm an impulse of caring that belies the abstract division of humans from nature, of the sacred from the mundane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderlying these wonderfully engaging stories is the author's belief in a new ecological ethic of care, one that expands the idea of community to include the environment, and embraces the land as family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760513220896,"sku":"9781571312815","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/07e2e0b9351bf3187081495edb263e78.webp?v=1780182025","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-pine-island-paradox-making-connections-in-a-disconnected-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}