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003			OCoLC
005			20240322125158.0
008			021008r20021962maua b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2002726803
020			_a061825305X : _c$24.00
020			_a0618249060 _qpaperback _c$14.00
020			_a9780618253050
040			_aOCO _beng _cOCO _dTXI _dIXA _dDLC _dOCLCQ _dXY4
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050		4	_aQH545 .P4 _bC38 2002
090			_aQH545.P4 _bC38 2002
092			_a632.9 C2395S 2002
100	1		_aCarson, Rachel, _d1907-1964
245	1	0	_aSilent spring / _cRachel Carson ; introduction by Linda Lear ; afterword by Edward O. Wilson ; [drawings by Lois and Louis Darling].
250			_a40th anniversary edition.
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c2002.
264		4	_c©1962
300			_axix, 378 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A Mariner book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [301]-355) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Fable for tomorrow -- Obligation to endure -- Elixirs of death -- Surface waters and underground seas -- Realms of the soil -- Earth's green mantle -- Needless havoc -- And no birds sing -- Rivers of death -- Indiscriminately from the skies -- Beyond the dreams of the borgias -- Human price -- Through a narrow window -- One in every four -- Nature fights back -- Rumblings of an avalanche -- Other road -- List of principal sources -- Afterword / Edward O. Wilson.
520			_aFirst Published 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. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's "100 Most Influential People of the Century"). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and the acclaimed biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death. 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. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
521	8		_a1340L _bLexile
526	0		_aAccelerated Reader AR _bUG _c11.5 _d19 _z67632.
650		0	_aPesticides _xEnvironmental aspects
650		0	_aPesticides _xToxicology
650		0	_aPesticides and wildlife
650		0	_aInsect pests _xBiological control
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2002726803.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hm031/2002726803.html
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