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Editors: Lisa H Sideris and Kathleen Dean Publisher: State University of New York Press, United States (2008) Long before Rachel Carson would become synonymous with environmental activism, she was a nature and science writer, penning The Sense of Wonder for children, and three books about the ocean ...

Author: Rachel Carson Publisher: Staples Press Limited, United Kingdom (1952) Rachel Carson whom the New York Times has described as a physical scientist with a literary genius', has written the epic story of the war which began with the birth of things, the war which will never know an armistice, t...

Author: Rachel Carson Publisher: Simon and Schuster, United States (1950, 1951, 1958) Here, in an edition especially adapted for young readers, is Rachel Carson's magnificant story of the oceans of the world. Illustrated with 150 photographs, maps, and drawings in colour and black and white - showin...

Author Rachel Carson Publisher: Penguin Group, United Kingdom (1962) Rachel Carson's scientifically passionate exposure of the effects of indiscriminate use of chemicals is still of vital importance. In her vivid and well-informed text she describes how pesticides and insecticides are applied almost...

Author: Rachel Carson Publisher: Signet Science Library, United States (1955) The Edge of the Sea takes you on a scientific tour of a world as old as time, a world where life began and the forces of evolution are still at work. At the sea's edge, that mysterious region where sea and shore meet, Rach...

Author Rachel Carson Publisher: Penguin Group, United Kingdom - paperback (1962, reprinted 1991) First published in 1962, Rachel Carson's scientifically passionate exposure of the effects of indiscriminate use of chemicals is still of vital importance. In her vivid and well-informed text she describ...

Author: Rachel Carson Publisher: Staples Press Limited, United Kingdom (1950, 1951) From the author that helped start the environmental movement by waking us up to the impacts humans were having on the environment. Here is the strange and exciting story of the seas - how they were born, how earth's ...

Author: Patricia Gallimore Publisher: BBC, United Kingdom (2000) A Guide to Organic Living Organic food has rapidly developed as an alternative to food produced by intensive farming methods. With many concerns surrounding food production, Organic Year sets out to explain the issues. Through visits t...

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Author: Charles A Lewis Publisher: University of Illinois Press (1996) Green Nature/Human Nature describes the psychological, sociological, and physiological responses of people to vegetation in cities and forests, as well as in horticultural therapy programs in hospitals, geriatric institutions, ph...

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