Sex On The Brain, Blum, Deborah

Автор: Blum Deborah
Название: The Poisoner`s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
ISBN: 014311882X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143118824
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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)

A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century New York, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Science had no place in the Tammany Hall-controlled coroner's office, and corruption ran rampant. However, with the appointment of chief medical examiner Charles Norris in 1918, the poison game changed forever. Together with toxicologist Alexander Gettler, the duo set the justice system on fire with their trailblazing scientific detective work, triumphing over seemingly unbeatable odds to become the pioneers of forensic chemistry and the gatekeepers of justice.

In 2014, PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE released a film based on The Poisoner's Handbook.

Автор: Blum Deborah
Название: Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
ISBN: 046502601X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780465026012
Издательство: Little Brown
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In Love at Goon Park, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum charts a profound cultural shift from how doctors discouraged parents from touching their children to when that belief was overturned, and in doing so proved the emotional and intellectual benefits of touch. Through studying neglect and its life-altering consequences on primates in his lab, Harry Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. The story of an evolution of both a man and an idea, Love at Goon Park ultimately invites us to examine ourselves and the way we love.

Автор: Blum Cinzia Sartini, Contrada Deborah L.
Название: New Italian Voices: Transcultural Writing in Contemporary Italy
ISBN: 1599103761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781599103761
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Автор: Blum Cinzia Sartini, Contrada Deborah L.
Название: New Italian Voices: Transcultural Writing in Contemporary Italy
ISBN: 1599103753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781599103754
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Автор: Blum Deborah
Название: The Poison Squad: One Chemist`s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 0143111124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143111122
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A New York Times Notable Book

The 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, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad."

Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law."

Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.

Автор: Blum Deborah, Folger Tim
Название: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
ISBN: 054400342X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544003422
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 21570.00 T
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"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 author Deborah Blum selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.