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Silent Spring (Record no. 12619)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141184944
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 363.73
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Carson, Rachel
9 (RLIN) 394741
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Silent Spring
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. England;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 323 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Penguin Classics
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear. Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind, appeared in 1941. Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse of pesticides, was published in 1962. Carson's articles on natural history appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Reader's Digest and Holiday. An ardent ecologist and preservationist, Carson warned against the dumping of atomic waste at sea and predicted global warming.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
General subdivision Science, Environment
9 (RLIN) 394742
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        Karachi Karachi Science 22/06/2018 4 2 363.73 PKLC023180 08/12/2019 16/11/2019 22/06/2018 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Dewey Decimal Classification 10.00
        Lahore Lahore Science 20/05/2018 7 7 363.73 PKLC021558 20/01/2021 20/10/2020 20/05/2018 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17