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| Silent Spring | 
| Author: Rachel Carson
Creators: Edward O. Wilson, Linda Lear
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 1569
Format: Special Edition
Media: Paperback
Edition: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0618249060
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7384
UPC: 046442249065
EAN: 9780618249060
ASIN: 0618249060
Publication Date: October 22, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Just As Valuable Book Now As It Was 42 Years Ago December 9, 2004
14 out of 22 found this review helpful
Rachel Carson did the world a big favor in 1962 by writing this book. To a large extent the world has not listened and still is not listening. Man-made chemicals are very dangerous for not too complicated reasons. All living things are made up of chemical systems that evolved over millions of years. Before man-made chemicals were introduced chemical changes in the environment were very gradual. Now introduced chemicals are very powerful (spoken of in terms such as 3 parts per million) because the biological systems have no previous exposure to these introduced chemicals in the DNA code.
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Carson's "Silent Spring" did that, but not to the extent needed to fully protect the environment. As of 2004 the environment is losing and the chemicals are winning. Rachel Carson's message is now more important than ever. We hope people listen.
Prescient scientific literary achievment, now December 6, 2004
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
A score of years after Bhopal.
The elimination of DDT in the US but export of DDT to foriegn
countries is problematical,,,,...
the nesting eagle population was brought back indirectly by
Carson's work.
SOx NOx CO2 the later covered by Teapot Dome Energy Infrastructure,
following the world health organization to Korea,
the spirit of science for the people a blandishment
of satisfaction for the available dermatoid cyst
gastrocnemius siting for breakout.. the discovery
of Anopheles and homograft contained laboratories.
The briefcases and Parapluie of Cato's Republic and
the Congressional Memory Project.
 One of the scientific classics of its time November 28, 2004
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Carson's slient spring is a well-written, heavily profound commentary on the dangers of Persistant Organic Pollutants (POPs) and their effects on every aspect of nature. Driving home point after point about different harms brought about by these chemicals, her study clearly earned the critical acclaim it has received over the last 40 years.
Her prose is extremely easy to follow for a technical book, and nearly anyone can read it. I am only mildly interested in science, and even less interested in ecology. However, I had no trouble grasping the concepts she brought up in her report. All of her anecdotes and evidence are presented in a manner simple enough for the layman but profound enough for the most educated professionals
Another Thoreau August 3, 2004
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Rachel Carson wrote so beautifully that any few pages of SILENT SPRING, or its predecessor, the majestic THE SEA AROUND US, throb with the vitality and yearning of the greatest poetry. SILENT SPRING caused an enormous sensation forty years ago, as it married a highly evolved lyric writing style with a hardcore expose of DDT and other insecticides, a topic which was quite flammable and which provoked the wrath of a host of leading scientists and others invested in the big business of "nature cleansing." To some, Carson was a renegade, and a retro one at that, a conservative who wished to take the world back to the days before "scientific progress."
As many conservationists have been called before and since. But conservation does not automatically imply "conservative," and I think Carson, in her own way, was quite radical in her thinking and in her prognosis for the future. This book is lovely, but to my mind not well served by the insipid introduction by Terry Tempest Williams who is an OK writer but nothing special, particularly when compared to Carson. My advice is, skip the intro, you don't need it, and get right to the heart of the book and the wonderful limpid prose, the most evocative since Thoreau's.
DR. HULDA CLARK'S PREDESSOR June 15, 2004
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am pleased to write this very short review of Carson's book. I have joined an eco reading group in hopes of saving at least two or three of human kind to continue life on this planet. Carson has set the background for what my favorite scientist/writer of the 21st century, Dr. Hulda Clark has dovetailed on. It comes as no surprise that Dr. Clark books which were written starting 1993 were met by the same kind of corporate outcry and government disclaimer as what happened to Rachel Carson. I hope society learns something from how they mistreated Carson and not make the same mistake with Dr. Clark.I am a strong supporter of Dr. Clark and her protocols for curing/preventing/treating many of the ills,--cancer, hiv/aids and immune system destroying diseases--as Carson fortold in her books some 42 years ago. Presently, the government is dragging Dr. Clark to court because they do not want her work to be recognized for improving the health of many Americans. I SCREAM FROM THE HIGHEST TOWER THAT HER SCIENCE HAS SAVED MY LIFE AND I AM ETERNALLY GREATFUL.
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