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ISBN: 9780141184944 - Silent Spring Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0141184949  ISBN13: 9780141184944
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Sep 2000
Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment. Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, "Silent Spring" exposed the... More

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ISBN: 9780141391526 - Silent Spring Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0141391529  ISBN13: 9780141391526
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 29 Nov 2012
Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the indiscriminate use of pesticides. This title describes the nests full of eggs that would never hatch, the rivers bloated with poisoned fish and the children killed by the very chemicals which had... More

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ISBN: 9780143104964 - Under the Sea-wind Under the Sea-wind
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0143104969  ISBN13: 9780143104964
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Sep 2007
For the centennial of the birth of "Silent Spring" author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, "Under the Sea-Wind"aRachel... More

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ISBN: 9780195069976 - The Sea Around Us The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0195069978  ISBN13: 9780195069976
Publisher: Oxford University Press Oxford Paperbacks
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Apr 1997
Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Reintroducing a classic work to a whole new generation of readers, this Special Edition features a new chapter written by... More

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ISBN: 9781560322535 - Basic Guide to Pesticides Basic Guide to Pesticides
Rachel Carson Council Inc Briggs, Shirley

ISBN10: 1560322535  ISBN13: 9781560322535
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 21 Sep 1992
Contains physical properties of over 700 pesticides and transformation products and contaminants. This work contains physical properties of over 700 pesticides and transformation products and contaminants. It can be used by the layman with minor... More

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ISBN: 9780618249060 - Silent Spring Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0618249060  ISBN13: 9780618249060
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Edition: 40th
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Oct 2003
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. More

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ISBN: 9780395683293 - Silent Spring Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0395683297  ISBN13: 9780395683293
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Edition: Reprinted edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Sep 1994
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the government to ban DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting... More

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ISBN: 9780140273717 - Silent Spring Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0140273719  ISBN13: 9780140273717
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Mar 1999
Originally published in 1963 by Hamish Hamilton, and now part of the PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS series, Carson's exposure of the effects of the indiscriminate use of chemicals is still of importance. She describes how pesticides are... More

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ISBN: 9780195147018 - Sea Around Us Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0195147014  ISBN13: 9780195147018
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: Commemorative
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 Jun 2005
Preface to the 1961 Edition Acknowledgments Foreword by Carl Safina Introduction by Robert D. Ballard Pt. 1 Mother Sea 1 The Gray Beginnings 32 The Pattern of the Surface 213 The Changing Year 394 The Sunless Sea 535 Hidden Lands 776... More

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ISBN: 9780140022681 - Silent Spring Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

ISBN10: 0140022686  ISBN13: 9780140022681
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New impression
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 Oct 1970
Focuses on the effects of the indiscriminate use of chemicals, describing how pesticides and insecticides are applied almost universally to farms, forests, gardens and homes with scant regard to the contamination of the environment and the... More