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Silent Spring

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.  more

  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Sep-30-2009

not interesting enough to read the whole thing (very repetitive)

I had to order this book for an environmental science class because it is said to have started the environmental movement. The first few chapters were fine. After that it seemed like it was just saying the same thing over and over again. All of the rest of the chapters elaborated about the...

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  • Posted: Sep-13-2009

Good Message, but very redundant

The book starts out well enough and gets the point across. Pesticide use is causing a lot more problems that it is solving. That's great it really is, but every chapter sticks to the same formula and it became increasingly difficult to pick up the book. If it weren't for the fact that it was...

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  • Posted: Jun-26-2009

review on delivery & condition only

I can only give a review on the delivery, which was fast. Plus the condition of the book, which was exactly as they stated on the description of it. It was purchased for my daughter for her reading list for high school, so I have not read it. But I'd do business with this seller again.

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  • Posted: Jun-10-2009

Environmental token

Know someone who is a fan of the environmental movement? This is the book where it all began, not to mention, written by a marvelous woman. Great buy.

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  • Posted: Apr-26-2009

This book has killed millions of people

Cherry-picking facts to present misleading statistical pictures outside of their context is reprehensible at best. Science is not about agendas; it's about getting after the truth. Ideas have consequences, as do dangerous, ideological movements supported by faulty and incomplete data. Carson's...

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  • Posted: Mar-18-2009

We Owe It to Ourselves

This reviewer remembers, as a small child, watching crop duster planes spraying the farm fields eastern Long Island, NY. That would have been in the early 50s. 10 years later, Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring". It was those very same crop-spraying activities that were the focus of her...

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  • Posted: Mar-16-2009

Silent Spring?

In 1962, while still in college, I received, as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, c. 1962). It opened my eyes to something I'd never considered: environmental destruction. It made me, rather abruptly, an environmentalist!...

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  • Posted: Jan-08-2009

Still Relevant

This book is a classic observational study of the effects of man-made chemicals on the natural world. Carson, a biologist and writer, turned her attention to the natural consequences of the new practices of trying to control insect pests with chemical treatments. She begins the book by...

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  • Posted: Dec-03-2008

The Right to Know

Every once in a while a book comes a long that has such a profound effect on society that it creates a movement for awareness and betterment. Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, is one of those. Silent Spring did for the environmental movement what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did for the labor...

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  • Posted: Oct-22-2008

Of Silent Springs and Loudly Prophecies

With this comedy masterpiece, Rachel Carson launched a thorough and successful assault on pesticides commonly used in agriculture. After nearly 45 years, DDT is no longer used. Every organism on the planet has what was once considered a lethal quantity of it in its cells and the human ones are...

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