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Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment / Robert K. Musil.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780813562421 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0813562422 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780813562438 (e-book)
  • ISBN: 0813562430 (e-book)
  • Physical Description: xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Have you seen the Robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists -- Don't harm the people: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting industries -- Carson and her sisters: Rachel Carson did not act alone -- Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and ecological empathy -- The environment around us and inside us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent Spring, and Sandra Steingraber -- Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, pollution, and pulbic policy -- Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn: endocrine disruption and ethics.
Subject:
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Women biologists > United States > Biography.
Women environmentalists > United States Biography.
Science writers > United States Biography.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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