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Frank Graham Jr.
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Since Silent Spring |
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No copies available |
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Paperback |
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288 |
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1970-11-30 |
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B000XG00Y2 |
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Fawcett Crest |
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0.2 pounds |
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4.2 x 7.0 x 0.9 inches |
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1st |
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1 Laura (USA: MO) |
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1 Cece (USA: MO) |
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Product Description
From Wikipedia: Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.[1] The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.[2] ~~~ The New Yorker started serializing Silent Spring in June 1962, and it was published in book form (with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling) by Houghton Mifflin later that year. When the book Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson was already a well-known writer on natural history, but had not previously been a social critic. The book was widely read-especially after its selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the New York Times best-seller list-and inspired widespread public concerns with pesticides and pollution of the environment. Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT[3] in 1972 in the United States. ~~~ The book documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting industry claims uncritically. ~~~ The book argued that uncontrolled and unexamined pesticide use was harming and even killing not only animals and birds, but also humans. Its title was meant to evoke a spring season in which no bird songs could be heard, because they had all vanished as a result of pesticide abuse. Its title was inspired by a poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci", which contained the lines "The sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing."[12]
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