The Gentle Subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lytle, Mark Hamilton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
Colección:New Narratives in American History Series.
Temas:
Carson, Rachel, > 1907-1964.
Carson, Rachel, > 1907-1964
Biologists > United States > Biography.
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
Science writers > United States > Biography.
Écrivains scientifiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Biologists
Environmentalists
Science writers
Ecologische beweging.
United States
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • PROLOGUE
  • One: SPRING: Sense of Wonder: Under the Sea-Wind
  • Two: SUMMER: Florescence: The Sea Around Us
  • Three: FALL: The Fullness of Life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT
  • Four: WINTER: The Poison Book and the Dark Season of Vindication
  • EPILOGUE: Rachel Carson: The Legacy
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
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  • W
  • Y.

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