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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.
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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide
Carson’s Silent Spring: A Reader’s Guide provides an in-depth analysis and contextualization of Silent Spring. It also surveys the lasting impact the text has had on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
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Dave Foreman's Books of the Big Outside, Fall 1991
Dave Foreman’s Books of the Big Outside is a catalog of books, poetry, music, and material pertaining to what he calls the “Big Outside,” compiled for “wilderness defenders.”
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Dave Foreman's Books of the Big Outside, Spring 1991
Dave Foreman’s Books of the Big Outside is a catalog of books, poetry, music, and material pertaining to what he calls the “Big Outside,” compiled for “wilderness defenders.”
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Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Excerpt from Mark R. Stoll’s Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
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Projektion Natur: Grüne Gentechnik im Fokus der Wissenschaften
Projektion Natur is a collection of articles contextualising “green” genetic engineering within the debate about nature and society.
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Umweltgeschichte
Environmental history is becoming increasingly important in research, teaching, and public outreach.
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Weltmeere: Wissen und Wahrnehmung im langen 19. Jahrhundert
Weltmeere examines society’s relationship with the oceans in the nineteenth century, through subjects such as whale fishing, polar expeditions, the sea in literature and psychology, and marine studies.