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9789241571586 | World Health Organization, August 1, 1994, cover price $25.20

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Product Description: Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson’s influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carson’s editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an afterword, Linda Lear, Carson’s recent biographer, recalls the end of Carson’s life and outlines the attention that Carson’s book and Carson herself received from scholars and biographers, attention that focused so minutely on her life that it detracted from a focus on her work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Craig Waddell (editor)

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9780809322183 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $50.00

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9780809322190 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson’s influential 1962 book, Silent Spring.

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9780901436870 | Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, August 1, 1985, cover price $38.00

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Product Description: Devoted to the use and applications of this biological control agent. Bacillus Thuringiensis is rapidly becoming an important determinant for a wide variety of insect pests. There is an increasing interest in underdeveloped nations in establishing B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Mark Bailey (contributor), Jenny S. Cory and Phillip F. Entwistle (editor)

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9780471933069 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, May 1, 1993, cover price $375.00 | About this edition: Devoted to the use and applications of this biological control agent.

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Product Description: Provides a definitive source of information on the environmental, non-target and human safety aspects of using the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) as a biological control agent. B.t. is used worldwide as an effective agent for controlling many species of insect pest, either by crop spraying or genetic engineering of crop plants...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780471496304 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 10, 2000, cover price $417.00 | About this edition: Provides a definitive source of information on the environmental, non-target and human safety aspects of using the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (B.

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Product Description: When first developed, chlorinated pesticides such as DDT, dieldrin, and mirex were received with open arms, quickly becoming popular as effective, economic agents against pests. But evidence began to mount that residues of these chemicals remained in the environment, not breaking down, often appearing in plants and animals...read more
By Fumio Matsumura (editor)

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9780306408571 | Plenum Pub Corp, August 1, 1982, cover price $99.00

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9781468440904 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, July 13, 2013), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: When first developed, chlorinated pesticides such as DDT, dieldrin, and mirex were received with open arms, quickly becoming popular as effective, economic agents against pests.

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Product Description: The World Health Organization estimates that pesticides kill one million people each year and that as many as 25 million agriculture workers suffer an episode of poisoning. In 1985 over three million tonnes of pesticides were used in agriculture and horticulture world-wide, and use is increasing rapidly in developing countries...read more

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9780340549247 | Hodder Arnold, October 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The World Health Organization estimates that pesticides kill one million people each year and that as many as 25 million agriculture workers suffer an episode of poisoning.

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9789241571531 | World Health Organization, August 1, 1994, cover price $45.90

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Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism, credited with launching the modern environmental movement. In synthesizing a jumble of scientific and medical information into a coherent argument, Carson successfully challenged major chemical industries and the idea that modern societies could and should exert mastery over nature at any cost. Her critique remains salient today.This book provides the first in-depth analysis, contextualisation and overview of Silent Spring, a critical work in the history of environmentalism, surveying its lasting impact on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.

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9781441117861 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism, credited with launching the modern environmental movement.

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9781441130662 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $24.95

By Willa Y. Garner (editor)

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9780841208186 | Amer Chemical Society, January 1, 1984, cover price $69.95

Exposes the problems surrounding the international marketing of pesticides banned in the United States, describing growing incidences of pesticide poisoning in farm workers and through the exportation of contaminated foods (view table of contents)

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9780935028096 | Food First Books, February 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Exposes the problems surrounding the international marketing of pesticides banned in the United States, describing growing incidences of pesticide poisoning in farm workers and through the exportation of contaminated foods

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Discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans

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9780195373233 | Har/psc edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 17, 2015), cover price $99.00

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9780195373240 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 17, 2015, cover price $39.95
9780395683293, titled "Silent Spring" | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | also contains Silent Spring | About this edition: Discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans
9780395682388, titled "Insight Guides Berlin" | Apa Productions, November 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | also contains Insight Guides Berlin | About this edition: Introduces Berlin, describes places to see in each district, and provides information for travellers

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9789682459849 | Italian edition edition (Editorial Trillas S.A. De C.V., February 28, 2001), cover price $33.95

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Honoring the centennial of of the birth of the pioneering naturalist, a compilation of essays celebrates Carson's contributions to the birth of the environmental movement, in a collection that features works by Al Gore, Terry Tempest Williams, E. O. Wilson, John Elder, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, and Sandra Steingraber. Original.
By Peter Matthiessen (editor)

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9780618872763 | Mariner Books, April 22, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Honoring the centennial of the birth of the pioneering naturalist, a compilation of essays celebrates Carson's contributions to the birth of the environmental movement, in a collection that features works by Al Gore, John Hay, and Linda Lear.

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Product Description: This research monograph focuses on the design of arithmetic circuits in Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA). Using the fact that the 3-input majority gate is a primitive in QCA, the book sets out to discover hitherto unknown properties of majority logic in the context of arithmetic circuit designs...read more

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9783319166872 | Springer-Verlag New York Inc, April 9, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This research monograph focuses on the design of arithmetic circuits in Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA).
9780442280116, titled "Pesticides in Soil" | Van Nostrand Reinhold, September 1, 1986, cover price $67.95 | also contains Pesticides in Soil

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Product Description: This work contains the proceedings of the 1984 Environment and Chemicals in Agriculture symposium, held in Dublin, Ireland.

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9780853344049 | Kluwer Academic Pub, February 1, 1986, cover price $449.00 | About this edition: This work contains the proceedings of the 1984 Environment and Chemicals in Agriculture symposium, held in Dublin, Ireland.

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Product Description: The third of three volumes based on the 2nd Pan-Pacific Conference on Pesticide Chemistry, this book examines metabolism and residue analysis methods of environmental pesticides.

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9780841237223 | Amer Chemical Society, July 31, 2003, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: The third of three volumes based on the 2nd Pan-Pacific Conference on Pesticide Chemistry, this book examines metabolism and residue analysis methods of environmental pesticides.

Product Description: Fate and Prediction of Environmental Chemicals in Soils, Plants, and Aquatic Systems focuses on the chemical persistence and ecotoxicological behavior of pesticides in soil, water, and plants. The book examines recent developments in research on various substances and relays information regarding transport, adsorption, absorption, accumulation, degradation, biological effects, toxicity to aquatic organisms, air pollution, exposure, and risk estimation...read more
By Mohammed Mansour (editor)

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9780873716161 | Lewis Pub, June 1, 1993, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Fate and Prediction of Environmental Chemicals in Soils, Plants, and Aquatic Systems focuses on the chemical persistence and ecotoxicological behavior of pesticides in soil, water, and plants.

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Product Description: A result of important bilateral scientific agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the fate of chemicals and pesticides in the environment. Written by experts in both countries, it familiarizes the reader with recent state-of-the-art research being conducted in the areas of agricultural management and water pollution control...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jerald L. Schnoor (editor)

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9780471502326 | Wiley-Interscience, January 7, 1992, cover price $336.95 | About this edition: A result of important bilateral scientific agreements between the U.

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9780931876776 | Agriculture & Natural Resources, August 1, 1987, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Book by

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By M. J. Koziol (editor)

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9780408111522 | Butterworth-Heinemann, February 1, 1984, cover price $145.00 | also contains One Night, Markovitch

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Product Description: The Global Politics of Pesticides explores the varied, and often conflicting, interests involved in the formulation of international policies on chemical pesticide manufacture and use in each of the main areas of environmental pollution, trade, development, public health, food security, biotechnology and industrial safety and explains why some aspects of pesticide use are subject to strict international guidelines whilst others are not...read more

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9781853835452 | Routledge, June 1, 1998, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The Global Politics of Pesticides explores the varied, and often conflicting, interests involved in the formulation of international policies on chemical pesticide manufacture and use in each of the main areas of environmental pollution, trade, development, public health, food security, biotechnology and industrial safety and explains why some aspects of pesticide use are subject to strict international guidelines whilst others are not.

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9780415851183 | Routledge, September 11, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The Global Politics of Pesticides explores the varied, and often conflicting, interests involved in the formulation of international policies on chemical pesticide manufacture and use in each of the main areas of environmental pollution, trade, development, public health, food security, biotechnology and industrial safety and explains why some aspects of pesticide use are subject to strict international guidelines whilst others are not.
9781853835469 | Earthscan / James & James, November 1, 1998, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This is the first book to explore the varied, and often conflicting, interests involved in the formulation of international policies on pesticide manufacture and use.

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