Rachel Carson Sparks The Environmental Movement

Author : Rebecca Rowell
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680772368
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson Sparks the Environmental Movement written by Rebecca Rowell and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the great scientist Rachel Carson as she sparked the environmental movement. You'll read about her life, the science behind her studies, and the impact of her work on the world today.

Author : Stephanie Roth Sisson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1626728194
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spring After Spring written by Stephanie Roth Sisson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Star Stuff comes a picture book biography of Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist who fought to keep the sounds of nature from going silent.

Author : Mark Hamilton Lytle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199883823
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gentle Subversive written by Mark Hamilton Lytle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children's magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the genesis of her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, the incredible success of The Sea Around Us (a New York Times bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her "poison book": Silent Spring. The author contends that despite Carson's demure, lady-like demeanor, she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, women, and other concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle with cancer. Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women's struggle to find a voice in society.

Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618249060
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.

Author : Robert K Musil
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813571766
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson and Her Sisters written by Robert K Musil and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience.Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism—the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent Spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary “great woman,” whose work single-handedly launched a modern environmental movement. But as Musil demonstrates, Carson’s life’s work drew upon and was supported by already existing movements, many led by women, in conservation and public health. On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this book helps underscore Carson’s enduring environmental legacy and brings to life the achievements of women writers and advocates, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis, and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.

Author : Gina Dal Fuoco
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 9780743905664
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson written by Gina Dal Fuoco and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Carson is one of the most influential leaders of the modern environmental movement. This enlightening biography allows readers to discover the inspiring life of Carson and the impact she made on the environment through a variety of colorful images and easy-to-read text. A glossary and index are provided to aid in better understanding of such topics as chemical pesticides, deforestation, preservationism, and ecosystems. Readers will love the stimulating hands-on lab activity and will be eager to learn more!

Author : Elizabeth Ring
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606080514
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson the Environmental Movement written by Elizabeth Ring and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the biologist focusing on her childhood in Pennsylvania, her growing interest as an adult in environmental concerns, and the importance of her book "Silent Spring" in exposing the environmental harm done by pesticides.

Author : John Henricksson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878841162
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson written by John Henricksson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the biologist focusing on the events that led her to expose pesticide pollution in her book Silent Spring and her legacy as a founder of the environmental movement.

Author : Lori Hile
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1406283444
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson written by Lori Hile and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an engaging look at the work of ground-breaking conservationist, Rachel Carson, and her work to uncover the dangers of pesticides. It covers Carson's inspiration, her methods, findings, and the impact of her work on the environment movement.

Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547527624
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.