TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carson,Rachel
AU  - Lear,Linda
AU  - Wilson,Edward O.
TI  - Silent spring
SN  - 061825305X
AV  - QH 545 C321s 2002
U1  - 363.738/4 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Toxicology
KW  - Pesticides and wildlife
KW  - Insect pests
KW  - Biological control
KW  - Plaguicidas
KW  - Aspectos ambientales
KW  - Toxicología
KW  - Control de insectos
KW  - Manejo de plaguicidas
N1  - "A Mariner book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-355) and index; Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction by Linda Lear x
1 a fable for tomorrow 1
2 the obligation to endure 5
3 elixirs of death 15
4 surface waters and underground seas 39
5 realms of the soil 53
6 earth’s green mantle 63
7 needless havoc 85
8 and no birds sing 103
9 rivers of death 129
10 indiscriminately from the skies 154
11 beyond the dreams of the borgias 173
12 the human price 187
13 through a narrow window 199
14 one in every four 219
15 nature fights back 245
16 the rumblings of an avalanche 262
17 the other road 277
List of Principal Sources 301
Afterword by Edward O. Wilson 357
Index 365
N2  - This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death
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