What A Book Can Do.What A Book Can Do Priscilla Coit Murphy University of Massachusetts Press The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts. External link
PO Box 429, Amherst, MA 01004 www.umpress.usmass.edu 1558494766 $34.95 1-800-488-1144 In 1962 the appearance of naturalist Rachel Carson's Silent Spring not only sparked debate on pesticide pesticide, biological, physical, or chemical agent used to kill plants or animals that are harmful to people; in practice, the term pesticide is often applied only to chemical agents. and ecology issues; it helped change the nature and effectiveness of preservation efforts around the world. It first appeared as a magazine serialization se·ri·al·ize tr.v. se·ri·al·ized, se·ri·al·iz·ing, se·ri·al·iz·es To write or publish in serial form. se , but its book version really reached out to larger audiences. Priscilla Coit Murphy's What A Book Can Do: The Publication And Reception Of Silent Spring isn't just another analysis of the book itself: it's a review of the publishing history of the Houghton Mifflion edition and the prior New Yorker yorker Noun Cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat [probably after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club] serialization, incorporating the views of her editors as well as Carson herself--and her opponents. An exceptional history which is strongly recommended for any reader of Silent Spring. |
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