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Title The house we live in : an environment reader / [compiled by] Sheridan D. Blau [and] John von B. Rodenbeck.

Publication Info. New York : Macmillan, [1971]
©1979

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Sperry  577 H816 1971    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xix, 515 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Mortgaging the old homestead / Lord Ritchie-Calder -- How to think about the environment / Max Ways -- All about ecology / William Murdoch and Joseph Connell -- The obligation to endure / Rachel Carson -- The raid on resources / Stewart Udall -- The highway and the city / Lewis Mumford -- A-bombs, bugbombs, and us / G.M. Woodwell, W.M. Malcolm, and R.H. Whittaker -- From Fumifugium; or, The inconveniency of the smoake of London / John Evelyn -- Killer smog / William Wise -- The troubled outdoors / Arie J. Haagen-Smit -- Radiation damage / Sheldon Novick -- The goose that laid the radioactive egg / Richard Curtis and Elizabeth Hogan -- Catch 24,400 (or, Plutonium is my favorite element) / Roger Rapoport -- Miss Carson's "nightmares" unfold / Frank Graham, Jr. -- Life on a dying lake / Peter Schrag -- Eco-catastrophe! / Paul Ehrlich -- From An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- The problem / Paul Ehrlich -- Life in a crowd / Ron M. Linton -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Ecce homo / Konrad Lorenz -- Prospects for spaceship man / G.L. Stebbins -- The land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- Man's place in nature / Marston Bates -- Man and nature / Richard L. Means -- The historical roots of our ecologic crisis / Lynn White, Jr. -- Selections from Walden / Henry David Thoreau -- Helen's exile / Albert Camus -- A native hill, part I / Wendell Berry -- If you don't mind my saying so ... / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The steady state: physical law and moral choice / Paul B. Sears -- Sorcercer's apprentice / Barry Commoner -- The proper study of man in a world of technology / Rene Dubos -- The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- The economics of the coming Spaceship Earth / Kenneth Boulding -- Growth, greed, and gung ho / Robert Rienow and Leona Train Rienow -- Ecology and revolutionary thought / Murray Bookchin -- The politics of ecology / Harvey Wheeler -- Senate joint resolution 160: Introduction of a joint resolution to an environmental agenda for the 1970s / Gaylord Nelson -- Introduction to ecotactics / Ralph Nader -- The island earth / Margaret Mead -- In search of mermaids / Wesley Marx -- World planning / Buckminster Fuller -- Survival U: prospectus for a really relevant university / John Fischer -- How should we treat environment? / F. Kennth Hare.
Subject Ecology.
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism. (OCoLC)fst00913543
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Added Author Blau, Sheridan D., compiler.
Rodenbeck, John, compiler.

 
    
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