Rachel Carson: Challenging Authors -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- RACHEL CARSON, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND THE WEB OF LIFE -- CHAPTER 1: BIOGRAPHY1: Rachel Carson: "The Poet Laureate of the Sea" (Ballard) -- CHILDHOOD -- EDUCATION -- CAREER AT THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, AND EARLY PUBLICATIONS -- CAREER AFTER LEAVING THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE -- POLITICAL ACTIVITY -- HONORS, AWARDS AND PUBLIC SPEAKING -- CARSON'S LAST YEARS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2: NATURE WRITING: A WHIRLWIND TOUR -- CHAPTER 3: BOOKS ABOUT THE SEA: "Who has known the Ocean?" -- UNDER THE SEA WIND -- Writing the Book -- Summary of the Book -- Responses to the Book -- Reviews of the Book -- THE SEA AROUND US -- Writing the Book -- Summary of the Book -- Part I "Mother Sea" -- Part II The Restless Sea -- Part III Man and the Sea about Him -- Responses to the Book -- THE EDGE OF THE SEA -- Writing the Book -- Summary of the book -- Responses to the Book -- CHAPTER 4: "WORDS TO LIVE BY:" CARSON'S OTHER WRITING: Field Notes, Essays, Reviews, and Government Brochures -- GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS -- ESSAYS IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES -- "Undersea" -- SPEECHES -- Honorary Degree Scripps College June 1962 "Of Man and the Stream of Time" -- National Council of Women of the U.S. Oct 11, 1962 -- National Women's Press Club speech Dec 5, 1962 -- Cullum medal of the American Geographic Society December 5, 1963 -- TV SCRIPT "CLOUDS" -- THE SENSE OF WONDER -- LETTERS TO DOROTHY FREEMAN -- CHAPTER 5: SILENT SPRING (1962) -- BACKGROUND ON PESTICIDES BEFORE DDT -- Pest Control in Agriculture -- Early U.S. Government Regulation of Pesticides -- DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF DDT(DICHLORO-DIPHENYL-TRICHLOROETHANE) -- Use of DDT in World War II -- DDT in the Cold War -- Early Challenges to DDT U -- CARSON TAKES ON THE CHALLENGE -- SILENT SPRING: SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION OF THE BOOK.

1. A Fable for Tomorrow -- 2. The Obligation to endure -- 3. Elixirs of Death -- 4. Surface Waters and Underground Seas -- 5. Realms of the Soil -- 6. Earth's Green Mantle -- 7. Needless Havoc -- 8. And No Birds Sing -- 9. Rivers of Death -- 10. Indiscriminately from the Skies -- 11. Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias -- 12. The Human Price -- 13. Through a Narrow Window -- 14. One in Every Four -- 15. Nature Fights Back -- 15. The Rumblings of an Avalanche -- 17. The Other Road -- TIMELINESS OF THE BOOK -- REASONS FOR THE BOOK'S POPULARITY -- CHEMICAL COMPANY REACTIONS -- REVIEWS OF THE BOOK -- Negative Reviews -- Positive reviews -- CBS REPORTS -- CARSON'S TESTIMONY IN CONGRESS -- RELATED SPEECHES AND ARTICLES: CONTEXTS FOR THE PESTICIDE ISSUE -- CARSON'S RHETORICAL STRATEGIES -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6: AFTER SILENT SPRING: THE LEGACIES OF RACHEL CARSON -- POSTHUMOUS AWARDS AND HONORS FOR CARSON -- WOMEN MARINE BIOLOGISTS AND OCEANOGRAPHERS -- CONTINUING CONTROVERSIES -- UPDATES AND REVISITS: FROM THE DELANEY CLAUSE TO THE FOOD QUALITY PROTECTION ACT -- CANCER AND ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS -- ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE -- UPDATES AND REVISITS: SILENT SPRING REVISITED (1987) -- Food production -- CARSON'S VIEW OF FACTORY FARMS -- ORGANIC FARMING -- THE DDT AND MALARIA CONTROVERSY -- CONTINUING RESEARCH ON DDT'S HEALTH EFFECTS -- SUSTAINABILITY -- Lawns -- ECOFEMINISM -- Carson's Legacies in the Performing Arts -- CHAPTER 7: TEACHING RACHEL CARSON -- IDEAS FOR STUDENT PROJECTS -- TEACH THE CONTROVERSIES -- PROBLEM BASED LEARNING -- Characteristics of Problem Based Learning -- A SAMPLE COLLEGE COURSE ON LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 8: RESOURCES -- RACHEL CARSON -- Biographies -- Biographies for children and young adults -- Rachel Carson's personal papers and related materials -- Scholarship on Carson.

Other Resources About Carson -- ISSUES THAT CARSON ADDRESSED DIRECTLY, AND RELATED ISSUES -- The Environment: General -- Climate Change -- Endangered Species -- Ecofeminism -- Environmental Education -- Evolution -- Environmental Ethics -- Environmental History -- Environmental Justice -- Environmental Law -- Food -- Gardens And Gardening -- Islands: the Galapagos Archipelago of Ecuador -- NATURE WRITERS / ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE -- Anthologies and Studies of Nature and Environmental Writing -- Critical Studies -- Individual Authors: -- OCEANS AND OCEANOGRAPHY -- Fish and Fishing -- Marine life -- Oceanography -- The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill -- ORNITHOLOGY -- Books -- Field Guides -- Websites -- OTHER ANIMALS AND PLANTS -- PESTICIDES -- SUSTAINABILITY -- URBAN ENVIRONMENT -- WEATHER EVENTS AND DISASTERS -- Dust Storms -- Hurricanes -- Earthquakes -- Tornadoes -- Tsunamis -- Wildfires -- OTHER ISSUES -- BREAST CANCER -- Websites -- Books -- PEDAGOGY -- Resources on Problem Based Learning -- WOMEN IN SCIENCE -- Overviews -- Biographies and General Works by Women Scientists -- Marie Curie -- Other Women Scientists -- Primatologists Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas, Jane Goodall -- ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX 1: RACHEL CARSON CHRONOLOGY -- APPENDIX 2: HISTORY OF DDT (DICHLORO-DIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE) -- APPENDIX 3: HISTORY OF U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION -- REFERENCES.