{"product_id":"home-is-modern-civilization-destroying-the-world-that-keeps-it-alive-9798195338220","title":"Home: Is Modern Civilization Destroying the World That Keeps It Alive?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rolff P\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the world is not ending loudly, but quietly entering your house?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA room that no longer cools at night. A child who begins to mistrust the sky. A river that forgets its old shape. A hospital ward where the air becomes heavier than the official alert. A packed bag by the door that a mother calls precaution, while her daughter calls it the leaving bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHOME\u003c\/i\u003e is not another ordinary book about the environment, politics, or the future. It is a haunting literary nonfiction work about the hidden war beneath modern life: the war between the civilization we built and the living world still forced to carry us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a voice that is intimate, philosophical, disturbing, and sharply human, ROLFF P. leads the reader through houses, cities, rivers, hospitals, forests, screens, markets, coastlines, and children's questions to reveal a deeper wound: modern civilization has learned to call extraction progress, speed maturity, consumption freedom, and damage normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book that begins with slogans. It begins with home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross Europe, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Singapore, Canada, Jordan, Bangladesh, Fiji, South Africa, Japan, Nigeria, Samoa, and beyond, \u003ci\u003eHOME\u003c\/i\u003e follows ordinary human moments where the crisis of the living world becomes impossible to keep abstract. A girl draws a tree from memory. A nurse reads the body before the report. A delivery rider becomes a servant of speed. A child sees noon turn orange. A grandmother teaches names before the names disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough story, moral diagnosis, spiritual pressure, and civilizational critique, this book asks a question most modern people would rather avoid: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat kind of civilization destroys the world that keeps it alive, then calls the destruction normal life?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHOME\u003c\/i\u003e is for readers who sense that the crisis outside us is connected to the crisis inside us. It is for those who feel that modern life has become faster, richer, more connected, and somehow less human. It is for anyone who suspects that convenience has a shadow, progress has a cost, and comfort can become dangerous when it forgets the suffering that makes it possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not offer cheap optimism. It does not sell panic. It does not ask the reader to perform guilt as virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, it asks for something harder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReverence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA different imagination of what it means to live inside a common home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegant, urgent, poetic, and unsettling, \u003ci\u003eHOME\u003c\/i\u003e belongs to the tradition of books that do not merely explain a problem, but change the room in which the problem is felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBecause home was never just the place we return to.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome is the world that has been carrying us all along.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882862264471,"sku":"9798195338220","price":1816.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195338220.webp?v=1781097571","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/home-is-modern-civilization-destroying-the-world-that-keeps-it-alive-9798195338220","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}