1972, ISBN: ce5c399f8b7a3d485fd0f39eb362a6f9

[SR: 357392], Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press], Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, The book i… More...

[SR: 357392], Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press], Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement. 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 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. Silent Spring has been featured in many lists of the best nonfiction books of the twentieth century. In the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Nonfiction it was at #5, and it was at No.78 in the conservative National Review.Most recently, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover Magazine., 13598, Environmental Science, 13592, Earth Sciences, 75, Science & Math, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

1972, ISBN: ce5c399f8b7a3d485fd0f39eb362a6f9

[SR: 810877], Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press], Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, The book i… More...

[SR: 810877], Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press], Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement. 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 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. Silent Spring has been featured in many lists of the best nonfiction books of the twentieth century. In the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Nonfiction it was at #5, and it was at No.78 in the conservative National Review.Most recently, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover Magazine., 13598, Environmental Science, 13592, Earth Sciences, 75, Science & Math, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

1972, ISBN: ce5c399f8b7a3d485fd0f39eb362a6f9

[SR: 810877], Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press], Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, The book i… More...

[SR: 810877], Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, Book, [PU: Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press], Houghton Mifflin: Riverside Press, The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement. 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 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. Silent Spring has been featured in many lists of the best nonfiction books of the twentieth century. In the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Nonfiction it was at #5, and it was at No.78 in the conservative National Review.Most recently, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover Magazine., 13598, Environmental Science, 13592, Earth Sciences, 75, Science & Math, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: ce5c399f8b7a3d485fd0f39eb362a6f9

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