The Recurring Silent Spring
Author: H. Patricia Hynes
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 248
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Author: H. Patricia Hynes
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rachel Carson
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Hamilton Lytle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-07-31
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0198038534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children's magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the genesis of her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, the incredible success of The Sea Around Us (a New York Times bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her "poison book": Silent Spring. The author contends that despite Carson's demure, lady-like demeanor, she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, women, and other concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle with cancer. Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women's struggle to find a voice in society.
Author: Chris J. Magoc
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780842026963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature.
Author: Rachel Carson
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 323
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rachel Carson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780808505167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1962, this book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement and spurred changes in laws affecting air, land, and water. A rigorous presentation of the effects of pesticide use.
Author: Craig Waddell
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780809322190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCraig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson's influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carson's editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an afterword, Linda Lear, Carson's recent biographer, recalls the end of Carson's life and outlines the attention that Carson's book and Carson herself received from scholars and biographers, attention that focused so minutely on her life that it detracted from a focus on her work. The foreword by Brooks and the afterword by Lear frame this exploration within the context of Carson's life and work. Contributors are Edward P. J. Corbett, Carol B, Gartner, Cheryll Glotfelty, Randy Harris, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Linda Lear, Ralph H. Lutts, Christine Oravec, Jacqueline S. Palmer, Markus J. Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Craig Waddell. Together, these essays explore Silent Spring'seffectiveness in conveying its disturbing message and the rhetorical strategies that helped create its wide influence.
Author: Gary Wiener
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0737758155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA foundational text in the conservation movement, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring challenged prevailing ideas of the health of the environment by showing that pesticides affected organisms other than their targets, such as humans and birds. The book also accused chemical companies and federal officials of complacency in regulating pesticides. Despite challenges from the chemical industry, the book reversed pesticide policy, leading to a ban on DDT for agricultural use. This compelling volume offers an in-depth analysis of the life, works, and importance of Rachel Carson. Critical essays focus on how the book put human impact at the center of environmental policy, how some felt that Carson exaggerated her claims, and how environmentalism stands in the way of human progress. The book also offers readers contemporary perspectives on environmental disasters.
Author: Michelle Nijhuis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1324001690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine "At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis’s “spirited and engaging” account documents “the changes of heart that changed history” (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe). With “urgency, passion, and wit” (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own.
Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780395924969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements. New introduction by Sue Hubbell. (A Mariner Reissue)