系列介紹

Macat書庫對學科領域和全球範圍都有廣泛而深遠影響的作品進行簡明即時的探索。

每篇分析都是對作品的深入研究——解讀思想；評估影響、理念和效用，並解釋其潛在的批判性思維技能，這也正是該作品的關鍵之處。

Macat書庫出版了180多種涵蓋廣泛學科領域的著作且出版量仍在不斷增長，並與全球大學的知名學者合作，對有史以來影響深遠的著作的思想和效應做出新的分析。通過將這些著作置於特定的歷史背景下，考察造就作者的諸多因素以及這些著作引發的反響，Macat鼓勵讀者用全新的視角看待這些經典和改變世界的著作。

對於本科生，碩士和認真的終身學習者而言，Macat書庫是進入大學的敲門磚。每篇著作均由專家主筆，所言不囿於字面內容；同時闡述並探討原始作品的寫作方式及影響，旨在介紹鼓勵批判性思維的學習資源，促進對重要思想的深入理解。

結構方面，Macat 書庫的每篇著作都包含“方法”部分和12個分析模塊——附有註釋筆記、詞彙表和參考文獻。這種結構不僅易於閲讀，且允許並鼓勵交叉引用多個書目——開創了引人入勝的跨學科途徑。

Silent Spring (The Macat Library)

Author：Nikki Springer 

Paperback: 98 pages

Publisher: Macat Library ; 1 edition ( 2017-7-5 )

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1912127458

ISBN-13: 978-1912127450

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm

內容簡介

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 dis credit both Silent Spring and Carson herself – to no avail.

The central argument of the book is that the indis criminate use of pesticides encouraged by post-war advances in agriculture and chemistry was deeply harmful to plants, animals and the whole environment, with devastating effects that went far beyond protecting crops. At the time, the argument directly contradicted government policy and scientific orthodoxy – and many studies that corroborated Carson’s views were deliberately suppressed by hostile business interests. Carson, however, gathered, organised and set out the evidence in Silent Spring in a way that proved her contentions without a doubt.

While environmental battles still rage, few now deny the strength and persuasiveness of her reasoning.

作者簡介

Nikki Springer has studied at MIT, Harvard and Yale. She is currently researching her PhD in environmental management at Yale.

Nikki Springer曾在麻省理工學院、哈佛大學和耶魯大學學習，耶魯大學環境管理在讀博士。