First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, 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. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
书的内容就不用我评述了,但是翻译的水平、抑或是态度,却让我非常不满。 不知是我的中文阅读水平不到家,还是最近英文看得太多,总之我总感觉这本书看起来疙疙瘩瘩的。
評分不知别人的感觉如何,我读了这本书之后的感觉,作者并没有过多地责怪科学,而是把矛头指向了制订愚蠢政策的政府。 如果读过迪特里希・德尔纳的《失败的逻辑》之后,或许能够更明晰一下概念:杀虫剂的滥用完全是因为对于事态发展的估计不足。制订政策的人往往只考虑到事态的...
評分【书评人俱乐部】环保主义的圣经?还是毒药? 《寂静的春天》自1962年出版以来,就被奉为现代环保主义的圣经。有趣的是,我国著名科幻作家刘慈欣的《三体》一经问市,也就迅速的被广大科幻迷奉为当代中国最杰出的科幻小说。而我第一次知道《寂静的春天》,也正是从大刘的这本...
評分(一) 最近在网络上,一个关于石油化工方面的项目的异议,唤醒了我的一些记忆。 我从小在一家化工厂的单位里长大,对于什么是污染,还是有些切身的感受。 在我们那里,一般人都牙齿不太好,或多或少有鼻炎。每次厂子里,安排体检时,被检查出脾大,通常被认为是太正常不过...
評分书的内容就不用我评述了,但是翻译的水平、抑或是态度,却让我非常不满。 不知是我的中文阅读水平不到家,还是最近英文看得太多,总之我总感觉这本书看起来疙疙瘩瘩的。
想起滴滴涕等農藥在我國應用的時間, 不禁生起瞭一絲希望. 或者我國90後已經有抗藥性瞭. 中國人將稱霸全世界
评分通俗易懂而且一定必須成為現代人的必讀書目啊!
评分這本書援引瞭大量的科學原理和數據,但可以感受到作者字裏行間錶達的悲痛、諷刺和希望。可以想見當時寫下並發錶這本書需要多大的勇氣、決心和智慧。所幸words can make a difference。“Our aim should be to guide natural processes as cautiously as possible in the desired direction rather than to use brute force... Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.”
评分一個無可辯駁的事實是:這個女人改變瞭曆史,或者說促進瞭曆史!
评分我要是有機會就把它讀給小學生聽 問題是這本書也就適閤給小學生以及以下的人看
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