Although they will probably always be less celebrated than wars, marches, riots, or stormy political campaigns, books have at times been the most powerful influencer of social change in American life. Thomas Paine's Common Sense galvanized radical sentiment in the early days of the Revolution; Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe roused the North's antipathy to slavery in the decade leading up to the Civil War; and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity's faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement. Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or FWS, was uniquely equipped to create so startling and inflammatory a book. A native of rural Pennsylvania, she had grown up with an enthusiasm for nature matched only by her love of writing and poetry. The educational brochures she wrote for FWS, as well as her published books and magazine articles, were characterized by meticulous research and a poetic evocation of her subject.

• We started tracking this book on March 5, 2024.
• This book was £1.97 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 28 times in the past 451 days.
• The current price of this book is £1.48 last checked 3 hours ago.
• The lowest price to date was £1.48 last reached on May 29, 2025.
• This book has been £1.48 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £1.97 last reached on March 5, 2024.
• This book has been £1.97 one time since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Professional & TechnicalTechnology & EngineeringChemical & Biochemical

• Publication Date: December 13, 2021
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 394 Pages
• File Size: 561 KB