TY - BOOK ID - 135175794 TI - Facing it PY - 2014 SN - 1623491770 9781623491772 1623491452 9781623491451 9781623491451 PB - College Station, Texas Texas A & M University Press DB - UniCat KW - Environmentalists KW - College teachers KW - Environmentalism KW - History KW - Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135175794 AB - 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 invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value.In 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 ER -