Silent Spring

  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • File Size : 49,9 Mb
  • Release : 06 June 2023
  • ISBN : 0618249060
  • Page : 404 pages
  • Rating : 4/5 (29 users)

Summary: Silent Spring PDF is a Fantastic Nature book by Rachel Carson. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 06 June 2023. This Book has 404 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.

Discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans.

Silent Spring

Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Category: Nature

Discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans.

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Silent Spring at 50

Silent Spring at 50
Author: Roger Meiners,Pierre Desrochers,Andrew Morriss
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Category: Nature

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

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Silent Spring Revolution

Silent Spring Revolution
Author: Douglas Brinkley
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Category: Nature

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that

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The Myth of Silent Spring

The Myth of Silent Spring
Author: Chad Montrie
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Category: Nature

Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in

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Beyond Silent Spring

Beyond Silent Spring
Author: H.F. van Emden,David B. Peakall
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Category: Nature

More than 32 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring appeared upon the scene as a landmark of literary achievement which contributed greatly to the foundation of the modern environmental movement. Rachel

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DDT Silent Spring and the Rise of Environmentalism

DDT  Silent Spring  and the Rise of Environmentalism
Author: Thomas Dunlap
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Category: Nature

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by

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Silent Spring Revisited

Silent Spring Revisited
Author: Conor Mark Jameson
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Category: Nature

Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on Rachel Carson's legacy and asks the question - are we still silencing the spring?

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Before Silent Spring

Before Silent Spring
Author: James C. Whorton
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Category: Nature

Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history

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Tales of Two Planets

Tales of Two Planets
Author: John Freeman
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Category: Nature

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us

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Rachel Carson Silent Spring Other Writings on the Environment LOA 307

Rachel Carson  Silent Spring   Other Writings on the Environment  LOA  307
Author: Rachel Carson
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Category: Nature

The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the extraordinary courage and vision of its author Library of

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Writing Science in Plain English

Writing Science in Plain English
Author: Anne E. Greene
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Category: Nature

Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in Writing Science in Plain English,writers from all scientific disciplines can learn to

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The Edge of the Sea

The Edge of the Sea
Author: Rachel Carson
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Category: Nature

"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

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Yangzi Waters Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China

Yangzi Waters  Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China
Author: Yan Gao
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Category: Nature

This book is an in-depth study of evolving state-society-environment relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China, as well as the transformation of landscape and waterscape in central China

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson
Author: Linda Lear
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Category: Nature

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

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The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author: Robert McCrum
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Category: Nature

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such

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