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Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world Cover Image Book Book

Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world / Andrea Barnet.

Barnet, Andrea, (author.).

Summary:

Discusses four influential women linked by their choice to break with convention, exploring how their work in their respective fields helped to ignite the progressive movement and offered a more positive way to think about the world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062310729 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 514 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-464) and index.

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Subject: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
Goodall, Jane, 1934-
Waters, Alice.
Women > Biography.
Biography > 20th century.
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
City planners > United States > Biography.
Primatologists > England > Biography.
Restaurateurs > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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