{"product_id":"the-pine-island-paradox-9781571312815","title":"The Pine Island Paradox","description":"\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","brand":"Kathleen Dean Moore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284515729659,"sku":"9781571312815","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571312815_0a689797-d2ce-4af7-bfd5-7c07db4a74e6.jpg?v=1772484914","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-pine-island-paradox-9781571312815","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}