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| fixed length control field |
01424nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781912127450 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
363.7384 |
| Item number |
SPR-A |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Springer, Nikki |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Analysis of Rachel Carson's - silent spring |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
London |
| Name of publisher |
Routledge |
| Year of publication |
2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
88p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrust environmental consciousness to the fore of modern politics and policy, creating the regulatory landscape we know today. The book is also a monument to the power of closely reasoned argument – built from well organised and carefully evidenced points that are not merely persuasive but designed to be irrefutable. Indeed, it had to be: upon its publication, the chemical industry utilised all its resources to attempt to discredit both Silent Spring and Carson herself – to no avail. The central argument of the book is that the indiscriminate use of pesticides encouraged by post-war advances in agriculture and chemistry was deeply harmful to plants, animals and the whole environment, with devastating effects that went far beyond protecting crops. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Social Problem |
| Form subdivision |
Environmental problem |
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Environmental impact analysis |
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Pesticides--Environmental aspects |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
