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The pesticide conspiracy / Robert Van den Bosch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 226 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0385133847 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/7/6686510973
LOC classification:
  • HD9660.P33 U59
Contents:
Prologue : Silent Spring revisited -- Introduction : A can of worms -- Mother Nature and the gray computer -- The pesticide treadmill -- Melancholy addiction of ol' King Cotton -- The making of an eco-radical, or pardon my paranoia -- The politics of pest control -- Sticking it to Cesar -- The terrible tussock tussle -- The instant professionals -- Of aphids' knees and bloody marys -- The rape of EPA -- Science for sale -- Freedom of the press, well, sort of -- The sorriest loser -- Integrated control : a better way to battle the bugs -- To turn the worm -- Epilogue.
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Bibliography: p. [225]-226.

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Prologue : Silent Spring revisited -- Introduction : A can of worms -- Mother Nature and the gray computer -- The pesticide treadmill -- Melancholy addiction of ol' King Cotton -- The making of an eco-radical, or pardon my paranoia -- The politics of pest control -- Sticking it to Cesar -- The terrible tussock tussle -- The instant professionals -- Of aphids' knees and bloody marys -- The rape of EPA -- Science for sale -- Freedom of the press, well, sort of -- The sorriest loser -- Integrated control : a better way to battle the bugs -- To turn the worm -- Epilogue.