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| Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (The Manifesto Series) | 
| Author: Alex Macgillivray
Creator: James Petro
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Sales Rank: 760588
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0764128671
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
EAN: 9780764128677
ASIN: 0764128671
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
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Product Description
From the final decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, a relatively few social and political documents have been written and circulated, then have gone on to change the course of human history. The Manifesto Series surveys some of those documents, presents an account of each manifesto?s immediate impact, then explains how and why its influence spread to a wider audience. Brief and concisely written, each title in this series makes engrossing reading and provides readers with insights into the dynamics of modern history. Each title in this series is enhanced with approximately 70 color illustrations. Lengthy excerpts from Rachel Carson?s compelling Silent Spring are presented in this book, with extensive commentary and analysis. Carson?s book, published in the 1960s, exposed the hazards inflicted on the earth?s environment by powerful industrial concerns. Her book focused especially on the harmful effects of DDT, while on a broader level it also questioned the domination of our culture by modern technology. Silent Spring thus became a springboard for a multitude of environmental movements and reforms which, to the present day, influence all of our lives for the better.
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Wildlife, nature and the Environment
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