Blum: 336 books
Turning Tragedy into Victory
Lessons Learned from Cops Who Have Fallen Enforcing the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The author of influential books such as Force Under Pressure and Stoning the Keepers at the Gate, Dr. Lawrence N. Blum is a renowned expert on the psychology of police officers. With Turning Tragedy into Victory, he returns to and expands on the important subject of how to best help those who have sworn...
The View from the Masthead
Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere....
The Immune System Recovery Plan
A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The bestselling book with 100,000 copies in print from one of the most sought-after experts in the field of functional medicine, Dr. Susan Blum, author of Healing Arthritis, shares the four-step program she used to treat her own serious autoimmune condition and help countless patients reverse their...
Lies That Bind
Chinese Truth, Other Truths
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2007
This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum offers an authoritative examination of rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding...
Ciderhouse Cookbook
127 Recipes That Celebrate the Sweet, Tart, Tangy Flavors of Apple Cider
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Inspired by the full flavors produced from their idyllic ciderhouse in the heart of a rustic New England apple orchard, Jonathan Carr and Nicole Blum’s recipes, developed in collaboration with chef Andrea Blum, celebrate the versatility of fresh cider in all its forms.
Ciderhouse Cookbook...
Zen and the Unspeakable God
Comparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Zen and the Unspeakable God reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with...
Totaled
The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup that Took on Big Auto, Big Oil and the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
When a billion-dollar electric car startup crashed and burned, global investors and average car buyers alike asked: What happened? Business and technology journalist Brian Blum reveals the answer in his new book TOTALED: The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup that Took on Big Auto, Big Oil, and the...
Flash in the Pan
Life and Death of an American Restaurant
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
“Finally back in print, Flash in the Pan is the original—and still the best—reportage on the life and death of an American restaurant, a ground level view of every phase of its life. From the early, hope filled planning stages to the last, humiliating moments, it's a tragi-comic epic of hubris...
Tubes
A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”
—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic
In Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine,...
The Last Goodnight
A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General “Wild Bill" Donovan as “the greatest unsung...
The Weather Machine
A Journey Inside the Forecast
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet
The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It’s a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones,...
by Shirley Neilsen Blum
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon, at once deeply spiritual and entirely new.Adam and Eve are driven from the Garden of Eden into a rocky landscape, their naked bodies lit by a cold sun, their gestures and expressions a study in...
by David Blum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
"This is an immensely valuable book and one which is clearly designed to appeal to all musicians—not just string players...Mr. Blum has captured in great detail the little things that so often make a great teacher. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Art of...
Reforging the White Republic
Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865--1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But after the sacrifice made by thousands of Union soldiers to arrive at this juncture, the moment soon slipped away, leaving many whites throughout the...