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Author | : Rachel Carson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780618249060 |
Download Silent Spring Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.
Author | : Mark Hamilton Lytle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2007-07-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198038534 |
Download The Gentle Subversive Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rachel 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 | : Stephanie Roth Sisson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2018-08-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1626728194 |
Download Spring After Spring Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the creator of Star Stuff comes a picture book biography of Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist who fought to keep the sounds of nature from going silent.
Author | : Roger Meiners |
Publisher | : Cato Institute |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1937184196 |
Download Silent Spring at 50 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. Their findings: much of what Carson presented as fact was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.
Author | : Linda Lear |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 054770755X |
Download Rachel Carson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement. In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation. The 1962 publication of her book Silent Spring was a watershed event that led to the banning of DDT and launched the modern environmental movement. Growing up in poverty on a tiny Allegheny River farm, Carson attended the Pennsylvania College for Women on a scholarship. There, she studied science and writing before taking a job with the newly emerging Fish and Wildlife Service. In this definitive biography, Linda Lear traces the evolution of Carson’s private, professional, and public lives, from the origins of her dedication to natural science to her invaluable service as a brilliant, if reluctant, reformer. Drawing on unprecedented access to sources and interviews, Lear masterfully explores the roots of Carson’s powerful connection to the natural world, crafting a “fine portrait of the environmentalist as a human being” (Smithsonian). “Impressively researched and eminently readable . . . Compelling, not just for Carson devotees but for anyone concerned about the environment.” —People “[A] combination of meticulous scholarship and thoughtful, often poignant, writing.” —Science “A sweeping, analytic, first-class biography of Rachel Carson.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Elizabeth Ring |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780606080514 |
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A biography of the biologist focusing on her childhood in Pennsylvania, her growing interest as an adult in environmental concerns, and the importance of her book "Silent Spring" in exposing the environmental harm done by pesticides.
Author | : Gino J. Marco |
Publisher | : Washington, DC : American Chemical Society |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Download Silent Spring Revisited Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Based on a symposium on the topics posed in Rachel Carson'sSilent spring, held in Philadelphia, August 1984".
Author | : Robert K Musil |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813562430 |
Download Rachel Carson and Her Sisters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience.Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism—the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent Spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary “great woman,” whose work single-handedly launched a modern environmental movement. But as Musil demonstrates, Carson’s life’s work drew upon and was supported by already existing movements, many led by women, in conservation and public health. On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this book helps underscore Carson’s enduring environmental legacy and brings to life the achievements of women writers and advocates, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis, and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.
Author | : John Henricksson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781878841162 |
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A biography of the biologist focusing on the events that led her to expose pesticide pollution in her book Silent Spring and her legacy as a founder of the environmental movement.
Author | : Rebecca Rowell |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680772368 |
Download Rachel Carson Sparks the Environmental Movement Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Learn about the great scientist Rachel Carson as she sparked the environmental movement. You'll read about her life, the science behind her studies, and the impact of her work on the world today.