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  • The Poisoner's Handbook

    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    by Deborah Blum ...
    **Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie." —**The New York Observer**“The Poisoner’s Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties.” —Financial Times“Reads like science fiction, complete with suspense, mystery and foolhardy guys in lab coats ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Poison Squad

    One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

    by Deborah Blum ...
    **A New York Times Notable BookThe inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014

    by Deborah Blum ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "A stimulating compendium" on topics from antibiotics to animals, featuring Rebecca Solnit, E.O. Wilson, Nicholas Carr, Elizabeth Kolbert, and many more ( Kirkus Reviews)."A consistently strong series . . . Making connections between seemingly unrelated topics can help expand thinking, as seen in the effects of automated navigation on both airplane pilot error and Inuit hunting accidents that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love at Goon Park

    Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

    by Deborah Blum ...
    In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ghost Hunters

    William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

    by Deborah Blum ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit worldWhat if a world-renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Sex on the Brain

    The Biological Differences Between Men and Women

    by Deborah Blum ...
    Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between immunology and sex to male/female gossip styles. The results are intriguing, startling, and often ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • The Monkey Wars

    by Deborah Blum ...
    The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • A Field Guide for Science Writers

    The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers

    Edited by Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig ...
    This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism

    Lessons From the Front Lines

    Edited by Deborah Blum, Ashley Smart, Tom Zeller Jr. ...
    A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism brings together award-winning journalists from around the world to share fascinating tales of science and how it works and to provide guidance into reporting specialties like infectious disease, climate change, astronomy, public health, physics, and statistics. From practical advice on finding sources and distilling complex research subjects for a general ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • A Field Guide for Science Writers

    The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers

    Edited by Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig ...
    This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Poison Squad

    One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury

    by Deborah Blum ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    **A New York Times Notable BookThe inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Poisoner's Handbook

    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    by Deborah Blum ...
    Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook