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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lytle, Mark Hamilton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
Series:New Narratives in American History Series.
Subjects:
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
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