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... by Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night and This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
The Souls of Black Folk by ... ... James T. Farell
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
by Samuel Elliot Morrison
The Sea around us by Rachel Carson
The Floating Opera by John Barth
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
Islands in the Stream Ernest Hemingway The whole truth and nothing but the truth - nonfiction
A. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
B. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
C. An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
D. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
E. Finding Beauty in a Broken World by T ... Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson ... without the navy that was built according to mahan's strategic vision. coast guard vs blue-water navy? big difference.
Silent Spring
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duh. although you might argue betty page set up the foundations for the sexual revolution, playboy definitely played a big ... ... of War - Sun Tzu
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
A Manual for writers - Turabian
-- Strunk and White's Manual of Style
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
What color is your parachute
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Diary of Anne Frank
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... Silent Spring The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
City Fishing by Jerry Dennis
Shark River by Randy Wayne White
Body in the Kelp by Katherine Hall Page
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson certainly kick started the environmental movement and probably saved the Eagle from extinction due to pesticides.
A concern I have with the dissemination of important information via non-book, not hard copy, media is that it is ephemeral. It is more difficult to ... ... I've just taken a peek at your thread and you have some interesting titles there. I'm thinking of reading (rereading) Silent Spring too - a timely reminder of where the environmental movement started - especially as in a former life I worked as an analytical chemist for the government's ... ...
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Fiction:
Abolition of Man by CS Lewis
This Present Darkness by Frank Piretti
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Bad Seed (PS) by William March
Non-Fict/Biography:
Forty-Seven Straight by Harold Keith
Bud Wilkinson: An intimate portrait of ... ... by Elizabeth Royte
2. Having Faith by Sandra Steingraber
3. When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis
4. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
5. High Tech Trash by Elizabeth Grossman (library)
6. Paper or Plastic by Daniel Imhoff
... Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food by Gene Baur
3. 200: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
4. 300: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
5. 400: Inventing English by Seth Lerer
6. 500: Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
7. 600: The $64 Tomato ... ... by Bill McKibben (TBR)
5. Cod by Mark Kurlansky (TBR)
6. Kindness to Animals by Charlotte Elizabeth (TBR)
7. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (TBR)
8. Environmental Ethics by Joseph R. DesJardins (Reading)
9. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Reading via DailyLit)
... by Tony Hillerman
Secret Song by Catherine Coulter
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ... what the magazine's copyright policy is. I would think that the North American classics (Walden,Sand County Almanac,Silent Spring, etc) would easily make up the list, so perhaps there would be few surprises. I'm quite interested in identifying good contemporary nature writing. Most of us ... ... have that issue (July 08) and can't remember much off the top of my head - except that all were American. I'm pretty sure Silent Spring, Refuge and possibly Sand County Almanac were included. I did buy one book off the list based on the review - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.
I ... Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ... Darkness - Joseph Conrad
5. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
6. Waldon; or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
7. Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
8. A Vindication of the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
9. Cottage Economy - William Corbett Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The first I read on the topic was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. (How sweet is that, read a book and talk to the teacher about it for extra credit in High School Biology.) And yeah, it definitely had an effect. ... of the way I eat. The End of Nature by Bill McKibben is a convincing read as well. And of course there is the classic Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Moor's Last Sigh by salman Rushdie
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Hush by Anne Frazier
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
A Breath of snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon ... Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life by Chelsea Cain
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
White Album by Joan Didion
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty by Tim Sandlin ... Man Without a Face
Once Upon a Time .. the End/The Frog Prince Continued
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow/Silent Spring
On Top of the World/To Ride Hell's Chasm
The Book of Questions/The Answer That's neat Orangeena. I love his book Teacher Man! I would have loved to have been in one of his classes!
Is it Silent Spring by Rachel Carson? Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. It had a profound impact on JFK. I think it should be required reading for everyone. We should have respect for all things and creatures on this earth because, as Rachel Carson said, "we all live in the same environment." When one creature is threatened, we ... ... Book of the Dead
299 – The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom A Toltec Wisdom Book
301 – Silent Spring
302 – The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making and Keeping Friends When You’re Not a Kid Anymore
305 – Iron John: A Book About Men
306 – He’s J ... ... hard to find a more easily observable changes in our cultural zeitgeist than the ones caused by Animal Liberation and Silent Spring. ... in a Strange Land, Slaughterhouse-Five, Siddhartha, or perhaps something by Carlos Castenada, Ken Kesey or Rachel Carson. These were neither scholarly nor religious texts, but nonetheless they were books that might guide us. I enjoyed The River Why , but I would have really< ... A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Summer with Monika by Roger McGough
Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice ... And though she lived down the street from me, I never read Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us or her more famous Silent Spring. Something I should do some day. ... in the "Ethics" group than in the others: The Lottery and Other Stories, Mary Barton, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Silent Spring, and To Kill a Mockingbird, and Evelina is on my TBR shelf.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth might fit well there, too. ... Elizabeth Gaskell
Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
The Potter's Field, Ellis Peters
Requiem, Shizuko go
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (nonfiction)
A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid (essay)
The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner
Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith
To Kil ... ... as always, I read most of these a long time ago: Rebecca, A Room of One's Own, The Second Sex, Sexual Politics, Silent Spring, Slouching towards Bethlehem, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sula, and Surfacing.
T's etc., not so many, only: Tell Me a Riddle, To Kill a Mockingb ... ... Women and Literature, Elizabeth Hardwick
Sexing the Cherry, Jeannette Winterson
Sexual Politics, Kate Millett
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Sor Juana Anthology, Sor Juana Inés ... ... the Dharma by Jack Kerouac
299 Other Religions - The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
301 Sociology and Anthropology - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
302 Social Interaction - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
303 Social Processes - The Future Dictionary of America
305 Social Group ... The Winter's Tale by SHakespeare
Silent Spring by RAchel Carson
The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke ... by Nicholas Evans
The Whisperings Within : Evolution and the origin of human nature by David Barash
Silent Spring by Rachel Carlson
Hush Money by Robert B. Parker Now reading:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and the Manchester history, still. ... To Kill a Mockingbird, I can't say that any of them remained very important to me.
I also recall Rachel Carson's Silent Spring stunning me. And Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls was very much a must read for young women of the time although I think it was more ... ...
msodalil, a quick look at your library sorted by shared brought up several examples where you might start. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at the top of your shared list is a simple example, if you click on the author name, the right author page Rachel Carson comes up.
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