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    Deborah Blum

    Deborah Blum is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and publisher of Undark magazine, (undark.org). In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series on primate research, which she turned into a book, The Monkey Wars. Her other books include The Poisoner's Handbook, Ghost Hunters, Love at Goon Park, and Sex on the Brain. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Wired, Time, Discover, Mother Jones, The Guardian and The Boston Globe. Blum is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences.


    The Poison Squad
    The Poison Squad
    One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    Deborah Blum
    9780143111122
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Sep 24, 2019
    Penguin Books
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Poisoner's Handbook
    The Poisoner's Handbook
    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    Deborah Blum
    9780143118824
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 25, 2011
    Penguin Books
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    The Poison Squad
    The Poison Squad
    One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    Deborah Blum
    9780143111122
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Sep 24, 2019
    Penguin Books
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Poisoner's Handbook
    The Poisoner's Handbook
    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    Deborah Blum
    9780143118824
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 25, 2011
    Penguin Books
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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