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Rachel Carson
This readable and up-to-date biography traces the famous environmentalist's development as a writer from earliest childhood through the publication of her best-known work, "Silent Spring" (1962).
The College Student's Research Companion
The newest edition of this valuable tool offers students easy-to-understand guidance on going beyond Google to find, evaluate, and use quality informational sources that will enable them to write better research papers.
The College Student's Research Companion
This guide to using a college library covers finding information in all available formats, and how to find the relevant material in periodicals. Also included is an explanation of databases and how they can help with research, and an overview of how to make the most of the Internet.
Silent Spring at 50
Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. Their findings: much of what Carson presented as fact was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.
Sea Change: the Mystery of the Captain's Daughter
Fourteen-year-old Lucy Irving, can't stop thinking about a dead girl-a girl who lived a century and a half ago. Lucy becomes obsessed with the past and begins to wonder if it is as dead and unchangeable as it has always seemed to her. Following the death of her grandfather, Lucy spends the summer with her grandmother in Newburyport, Massachusetts. While her primary purpose is to help Gramma, who reluctantly must prepare to move to a smaller less expensive home, Lucy secretly hopes that a summer away from her parents will be full of adventure. While cleaning out the attic, she finds a diary written in 1864 by another 14-year-old girl named Rebecca Cornwall describing her troubled relationship...
The College Student's Research Companion
This thoroughly revised second edition of The College Student's Research Companion is a user-friendly guide ideal for students faced with writing their first assignment using the college library, and makes a perfect text for information skills classes and workshops. The highly current manual covers everything college students need in all formats available, including effective Web searching skills. It begins with using the OPAC and understanding library organization, and moves through essential reference books, how to use periodical indexes to find articles, CD-ROM databases and how they are used in libraries, an explanation of online databases and how they can help with research, and an overview of how to cruise the Internet to find information.
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism," a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea's possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity's responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars.
An Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrust environmental consciousness to the fore of modern politics and policy, creating the regulatory landscape we know today. The book is also a monument to the power of closely reasoned argument – built from well organised and carefully evidenced points that are not merely persuasive, but designed to be irrefutable. Indeed, it had to be: upon its publication, the chemical industry utilised all its resources to attempt to discredit both Silent Spring and Carson herself – to no avail. The central argument of th...
Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age
Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age is a showcase of 24 unique online information literacy projects from community colleges, research universities and liberal arts colleges. Readers will find a wide array of program types, subject bases and institutional drivers in this rich compendium. Chapter authors discuss the development of online information literacy courses and tutorials, along with best practices for embedding information literacy instruction into discipline courses and programs.
Victorian Studies
First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.
