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.

Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.

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.”

Hausmüll documents the rise of a “new” environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.