The Ghost Hunters (Storpocket)
avDeborah Blum
ISBN: 9780099469346 - UTGIVEN: 200708In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts. The age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was exposed by Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species"[...]
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Häftad)
avDeborah Blum
ISBN: 9780143118824 - UTGIVEN: 201101Equal 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")
A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, "The[...]
A Field Guide for Science Writers (Pocket)
avDeborah Blum, Mary Knudson, Robin Marantz Henig
ISBN: 9780195174991 - UTGIVEN: 200508This 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 researc[...]
Love at Goon Park (Pocket)
avDeborah Blum
ISBN: 9780465026012 - UTGIVEN: 2011-07In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged--psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and doctors thought it would spread infectious disease. It took a revolution in psychology to overturn these beliefs and prove that touch ensures emotional [...]
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 (Häftad)
avDeborah Blum, Tim Folger
ISBN: 9780544003422 - UTGIVEN: 2014-10"Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity." -- Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings""A stimulating compendium." -- "Kirkus Reviews"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and aut[...]
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Inbunden)
avDeborah Blum
ISBN: 9781594202438 - UTGIVEN: 2010-02Video From "The Chemist's War" ("Slate Magazine"), by Deborah BlumPulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder.
Deborah Blum, writing with the high styl[...]
Angel Killer (e-singel)
avDeborah Blum
ISBN: 9781937894146 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06In the mid-1920s, young children began to vanish from neighborhoods around New York City. It took the police a decade to find their abductor, an unassuming 64-year-old handyman named Albert Fish. Fish had committed crimes of unspeakable horror: He had not only abducted and murdered the children, but[...]
