The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement, Paperback - Mark Hamilton Lytle

Reducere. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical...

DescriptionPaul Portuges is one of the best writers I have ever had the pleasure to work with, and his Rachel Carson story is the best work I've se...

Reducere. In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Reducere. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders o...

Reducere. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-ninet...

Reducere. A bold call for the "insane" to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation - Explains how many of those diagn...

DescriptionWhen Dave Foreman woke up staring down the gun barrels of FBI agents, he had traveled a long and winding road from Washington, D.C. lobb...

Reducere. Nearly fifteen years before the Stonewall Rebellion and the birth of gay liberation came the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Like its predominantly gay...

OYO, The Beautiful River is environmental literature, a book-length sequence of lyric narratives written from a journey down the Ohio River from Pi...

The third volume in Rachel Carson's classic and New York Times bestselling Sea trilogy, about the delicate beauty of the shoreline, introduced by M...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

Reducere. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

Reducere. Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This boo...

Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Silent Spring Revisited reflects on Carson's legacy in Britain, the US and beyond, ...

A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Ma...

Reducere. From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few g...

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Reducere. For environmentally critical times, Courage for the Earth is a centennial appreciation of Rachel Carson's brave life and transformative writing Rac...

From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obses...

Reducere. A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic ...

DescriptionStarting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accompli...

Contributor(s): Author: Katie SingerOver millions of years, living creatures have evolved in relation to the Earth's electromagnetic energy. Now, w...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat would you say if I told you there are disturbing things the US Government hasn't told you about the Vietnam War and doesn't want yo...

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

This book scrutinizes the current state of evolution education and assesses the recent rise of creationism in Brazil. It provides accounts of class...

DescriptionThis feminist classic (first published in 1982) presents a chorus of voices exploring their authentic spirituality. The essays are activ...

Reducere. Description"The first responsible account of an important, uniquely American happening - worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to piece together ...

Reducere. The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fift...

This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline ...

A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams.

Reducere. Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's ability ...

Reducere. The witches of the Far Lands of Minecraft are missing . . . all of them When a young village girl is badly injured, and only a witch can help her, ...

Publisher: Mark DavisonAuthor(s): Mark Hamilton DavisonIllustration(s): 150 b&w photographsNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 210...

A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of "sensitives"--people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resu...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Daniel P. SelmiIllustration(s): 17 halftonesNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

DescriptionAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political st...

Illustrated by a detailed comparative examination of mining regulations and environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the USA (the second largest pr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

When the residents of Little Town are lured in by an exciting new gadget from Baron Ben, Stick Boy is left to his own devices. And when robots star...