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American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
American Pests The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
Author: James E. McWilliams
The world of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators to employing the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man, Americans have fought to eradicate the "bugs" they have learned to hate. Inspired by the still-revolutionary theories of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231139427
ISBN-10: 023113942X
Publication Date: 5/26/2008
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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