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Carson's Silent spring : a reader's guide / Joni Seager.
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Seager, Joni
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Description
x, 216 pages ; 22 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
QH545.P4 C385 2014
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Subject(s)
Pesticides
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Environmental aspects
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Pesticides
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Toxicology
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Pesticides and wildlife
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Insect pests
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Biological control
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Carson, Rachel 1907-1964
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Silent spring
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Series
Bloomsbury reader's guides
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Getting to Silent Spring. The making of a publishing bombshell
Author, author. The post-war machine in the garden. Control of nature
Science
Science-industry-government collusion
Militaries, militarisms, and the atomic world
Crises of confidence. Needless havoc : Carson's case against pesticides. The elixirs of death
Thinking like an ecosystem
"Chemical death raining down" : aerial spraying
Cry for the birds
The aquatic holocaust
Pesticides today. One in every four. Domesticating the poisons
Life just not quite fatal
Poison on the plate
The ecology of the body
Disease outcomes. Alternatives. Passion, wonder, and beauty
Pragmatic alternatives
Scientific uncertainty. Responses to Silent Spring. A book like no other
Stigmatizing perfectly good chemicals * (*and killing Africans at the same time).
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Silent spring
ISBN
9781441117861 ((hardback))
1441117865 ((hardback))
9781441130662 ((pbk.))
1441130667 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2014002112
OCLC
858353385
Other standard number
10089643
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