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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition ...

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"Under the Sea-Wind" presents a naturalist's picture of ocean life. This book is her breathtaking canvas of the fierce, competitive struggle for life takes place along the shore, in the open sea, and along the sea bottom.

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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 America launches its Rachel Carson edition...

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Rachel Carsons Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolut...

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Featuring a new introduction by Sue Hubbell, a groundbreaking environmental resource presents a fascinating foray into the sea--a watery world brimming with life--and the extraordinary world that exists at the boundary of land and water. Reissue.

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Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Wind-Sea (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Sea Around Us presents an overview of the subject, a natural history of the oceans in which Rachel Ca...

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First published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson's award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of nature In 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rachel Carson-author of Silent Spring-began work on...

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Silent Spring is the masterpiece of an American writer Rachel Carson, and one of the world's most influential works over 50 years! In the book Silent Spring, Carson, with a vivid writing style that is unique to female writers, described the huge a...

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First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Si...

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First published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson's award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of natureIn 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rachel Carsonauthor of Silent Springbegan work on an...

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A new edition of the title originally published in 1965, which describes the author's walks with her nephew through the woods and along the coast of Maine. The text aims to endow children with a sense of wonder at the natural world, and to remind ...

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Basic Guide to Pesticides covers the physical properties of about 700 pesticides and their contaminants and related health hazards. It is important in dealing with environmental problems in general and individual cases.

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From the National Book Awardwinning author of Silent Spring: An exploration of marine life that takes us into ';a truly extraordinary world' (The Atlantic Monthly). Known for ';catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry,' nat...

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This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to readers' knowledge of Rachel Carson and her science, environmentalism, and life. 5 illustrations.

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When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classicSilent Spring,had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowled...

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In this issue, we explore why children and childhood are at the heart of the gospel - and of God's plan for restoring the world. Hear from Johann Christoph Arnold on "Discovering Reverence," Joan Almon on "Kindergartners Are Humans,...

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This work contains physical properties of over 700 pesticides and transformation products and contaminants. It can be used by the layman with minor questions or by the specialist needing in-depth references. Facts have been arranged so that one do...

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This work contains physical properties of over 700 pesticides and transformation products and contaminants. It can be used by the layman with minor questions or by the specialist needing in-depth references. Facts have been arranged so that one do...

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This New York Times bestseller by the author of the environmental classic Silent Spring beautifully details the coastal ecosystem of birds and the sea. In her first book, preeminent nature writer Rachel Carson tells the story of the sea creatures ...

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National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth's most precious, mysterious resourcethe oceanwith the author of Silent Spring. With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us became a cultural phen...

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';If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live inIf I had influence with the good fairy who ...

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The special mystery and beauty of the sea is the setting for Rachel Carson's memorable portrait of the sea birds and sea creatures that inhabit the eastern coasts of North America. In a sequence of riveting adventures along the shore, within the o...

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Basic Guide to Pesticides covers the physical properties of about 700 pesticides and their contaminants and related health hazards. It is important in dealing with environmental problems in general and individual cases.

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Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Sea-Wind (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Edge of the Sea is the third and final book in the sea trilogy written by the American marine biologist.

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Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Sea-Wind (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955).

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Der stumme Frühling» erschien erstmals 1963. Der Titel bezieht sich auf das Märchen von der blühenden Stadt, in der sich eine seltsame, schleichende Seuche ausbreitet. Das spannend geschriebene Sachbuch wirkte bei seinem Erscheinen wie ein Alarmsi...

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Rachel Carson, die legendäre Pionierin der Umweltbewegung, schrieb Menschheitsgeschichte. Dieses Buch ist ihr Vermächtnis: Einfühlsam und mit einem feinen Sinn für die uns umgebende Welt beschreibt sie, wie wir unser Verhältnis zur Natur heilen un...

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Under the Sea-Wind is the first work of Richel Carson, the greatest American natural writer. It was written twenty years earlier than Silent Spring. This work is full of fresh vitality and is like both poem and prose work. It enables us to underst...

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"e;Para mantener vivo en un nino su innato sentido del asombro, se necesita la compania de al menos un adulto con quien poder compartirlo, redescubriendo con el la alegria, la expectacion y el misterio del mundo en que vivimos"e;. Rachel C...

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