Macat Library: An Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (Paperback)

from sharonandjohn

I had been meaning to read Silent Spring for years, but I never got around to it. I really don't know why. When I saw it on the shelf in a closing Border's store, I grabbed it. Rachel Carson wrote this book back in 1962, but her message is sadly still relevant and important today. I knew that pes...

from the.ken.petersen

The scary thing about reading this book at a fifty year remove, is not that one learns of new threats to our ecosphere, or even that many of the dangers highlighted are still in existence, it is that the corporate powers had to be dragged, screaming and kicking, into an admission of each threat. ...

from 4bonasa

Despite of what Rush Limbaugh says, this book is a classic in so far as bringing environmental pollution to the public discourse. I never forgot the robins dieing in Minneapolis.

from liberality

The book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published in 1962. Rachel Carson was already a well known author of nature books and her book The Sea around Us, which came out in 1951, had spent 86 weeks on best seller's lists. She won numerous awards for The Sea around Us including the National Book...

from liberality

The book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published in 1962. Rachel Carson was already a well known author of nature books and her book The Sea around Us, which came out in 1951, had spent 86 weeks on best seller's lists. She won numerous awards for The Sea around Us including the National Book...