{"product_id":"the-bill-mckibben-reader-pieces-from-an-active-life-9780805076271","title":"The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered \"as important as Rachel Carson's classic \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e\"* and \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy, \u003c\/i\u003ehis \"deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding\"** exploration of globalization, helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, for the first time, the best of McKibben's essays--fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life--are collected in a single volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Bill McKibben Reader. \u003c\/i\u003eWhether meditating on today's golden age in radio, the natural place of biting black flies in our lives, or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics, McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earth--and of one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer \u003c\/i\u003e(Cleveland )\u003cbr\u003e**Michael Pollan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. A former staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, he writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603094143250,"sku":"9780805076271","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d20250f-b897-41d9-ac9a-74ba5c62355d.jpg?v=1757423805","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bill-mckibben-reader-pieces-from-an-active-life-9780805076271","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}