Silent spring
Record details
- ISBN: 9780618249060 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0618249060 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780618253050 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 061825305X (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
print - Edition: 40th anniversary ed., 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Mariner book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A fable for tomorrow -- The obligation to endure -- Elixirs of death -- Surface waters and underground seas -- Realms of the soil -- Earth's green mantle -- Needless havoc -- And no birds sing -- Rivers of death -- Indiscriminately from the skies -- Beyond the dreams of the Borgias -- The human price -- Through a narrow window -- One in every four -- Nature fights back -- The Rumblings of an avalanche -- The other road. |
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Subject: | Insect pests Biological control Pesticides and wildlife Pesticides Toxicology Pesticides Environmental aspects |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QH 545 .P4 C37 2002 | 30775305455868 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. from the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. After undertaking postgraduate work at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, she assumed a position as staff biologist at the University of Maryland in 1931. Five years later, she was appointed aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, which later became the Fish and Wildlife Service, and became editor-in-chief of its publications in 1949. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, was published in 1941. Her next book, The Sea Around Us, won the National Book Award. With her increased success as a writer, she resigned from her position with the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1952 to devote all her time to writing. Her other works included The Edge of the Sea and Silent Spring. She received many honors including the John Burroughs Medal from the John Burroughs Memorial Association; the Frances K. Hutchinson Medal of the Garden Clubs of America; the Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Department of Interior; the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society; the gold medal of the New York Zoological Society; and the conservationist of the year award from the National Wildlife Federation. She died of cancer on April 14, 1964. In 1969 the U.S. Department of the Interior named the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine in her honor. (Bowker Author Biography)