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Title: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ISBN: 0-618-24906-0 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (94 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It is obvious why this book was such a wake-up call!
Comment: When Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" in 1962, her goal was to make everyone aware of what the toxic substance DDT was doing to the delicate ecosystems in North America, most notable its role in the destruction of bird populations. After reading "Silent Spring", one can see why the book was a turning point in the movement of environmentalism.
Rachel Carson did a massive amount of research to study the effects that pesticides like DDT had on the environment. Her chapters are filled with highly-documented scientific facts, but they also possess a poignant element which helped stir the nation into doing something about it in the late sixties-early seventies after the book's release.
Al Gore's introduction eloquently details the sentiments and actions that this book prompted and it compliments the text very well.
This book is high on my list of recommendations.
Rating: 5
Summary: DR. HULDA CLARK'S PREDESSOR
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: remember
Comment: In most countries, DDT was banned only for agricultural use, NOT for control of malaria, in fact it is still widely used today for that purpose. Of course this isn't a long term solution, because of the resistance problem, as Carson foretold all those years ago.
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Title: A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold ISBN: 0345345053 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title:Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring": A Study Guide from Gale's "Nonfiction Classics for Students" ASIN: B00006G3G5 Publisher: The Gale Group Pub. Date: 23 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $3.95 |
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Title: The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson ISBN: 0195069978 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?-A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers ISBN: 0452274141 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Rachel Carson : Witness for Nature by Linda Lear ISBN: 0805034285 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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