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Apology to a whale : words to mend a world / Cecile Pineda.
- Title
- Apology to a whale : words to mend a world / Cecile Pineda.
- Author
- Pineda, Cecile
- Publication
- San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xii, 207 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecological thinking, Apology to a Whale addresses what the intersection of relative linguistics and archeology reveals about the present world's power relations, and what the extraordinary communication of plants and animals can teach us. This masterpiece of creative nonfiction is a wild ride on the frontiers of archeo-linguistics in search of the greatest killer on Earth--us. "--
- "This book can be categorized as environmental philosophy. An urgent re-framing of current ecological thinking, Apology To A Whale addresses what the intersection of relative linguistics and archeology reveals about the present world's power relations, and the need for a new consciousness based on what the extraordinary communication of plants, animals, and indigenous people can teach us"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781609404406
- 1609404408
- 9781609404413 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781609404420 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015005048
- OCLC
- 908086358
- SCSB-10835662
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library