Deborah Blum, Author . Perseus $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0278-5
In this surprisingly compelling book, Blum (The Monkey Wars) reveals that many of the child-rearing truths we now take for granted—infants need parental attention; physical contact is related to emotional growth and cognitive developmentȁ
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Deborah Blum, Author . Penguin Press $25.95 (370p) ISBN 978-1-59420-090-8
In a compelling tale with resonance for today, Blum evokes a surprising sympathy for her band of tough-minded intellectuals—among them philosophers, psychologists, even two future Nobelists—who, around the turn of the 20th century,...
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Deborah Blum, Author . Penguin Press $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59420-243-8
Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Blum (Ghost Hunters
) makes chemistry come alive in her enthralling account of two forensic pioneers in early 20th-century New York. Blum follows the often unglamorous but monumentally important...
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Deborah Blum, Author Viking Books $24.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-670-86888-9
On the most basic hard-wired biological level, are men and women alike or different? Researchers usually find evidence to support either position depending on how the initial question is asked. Blum, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the articles that...
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Deborah Blum, Author Atheneum Books $17.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-689-11617-9
This affecting true crime book by a California film producer tells the story of two young people in the Berkeley of 1968 whose relationship proved to be a tragedy. They were from vastly different cultures: Prosenjit Poddar, a naval architecture...
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Deborah Blum, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (328p) ISBN 978-0-19-509412-1
Scientists who use monkeys and other animals in biomedical research face mounting opposition from animal-rights advocates. Basing this detailed report largely on interviews, Blum, a journalist at the Sacramento Bee in California who won a 1992...
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Deborah Blum. Penguin Press, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59420-514-9
America’s nauseating industrial food supply of yesteryear sparks political
turmoil in this engrossing study of a pure-foods pioneer. Pulitzer-winning science journalist and Undark magazine publisher Blum (The Poisoner’s Handbook) looks back to the...
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Deborah Blum, read by Coleen Marlo, Tantor Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1550-1
Blum’s spine-tingling thriller about early 20th-century poisoners, their innovations in undetectable killing methods, and New York City’s first medical examiner and toxicologist who documented the telltale signs of poisoning is given a theatrical...
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