poisons and poisoning

"Engaging images accompany information about disgusting bugs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Eleven-year-old Flavia and her friends Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia are invited to visit Pulchra, who asks them to uncover who is trying to poison her mother.

Text and illustrations introduce poisons found around the home, and provides tips on how to stay safe.

Shares the story of how the appointment of Charles Norris as chief medical examiner in New York in 1918 dramatically slowed the incidence of murder by poisoning, and looks at how Norris worked together with toxicologist Alexander Gettler to investigate chemistry-related deaths and disorders and to establish the discipline of forensics.

The author presents a number of stories about poisons and poisoning in history, and discusses the various types of poisons, how to detect them, and their uses in medicine, cosmetics, politics, war, and terrorism.

An alphabetically-arranged guide to over one hundred different types of toxins that discusses what they are, how they are measured, where they are found, what the side effects are, how they can be avoided, and other related topics.

Presents a discussion of forensic techniques and developments in relation to poisonings, covering various cases involving substances such as arsenic, belladonna, digitalis, and thallium.

Explains what pollution is, describes some of the ways in which our air and water are being polluted, and what is being done about it.

Covers such topics as behavioral abnormalities, cancer, synthetic or man-made chemicals, DDE, DDT, Diethylstilbestrol (DES), dioxin, estradiol, estrogen, fertility, the immune system, PCB's (polychlorinated biphenyls), pesticides, plastics, prenatal development, testosterone, etc.

Catherine Ling is instructed by assassin and master poisoner Hu Chang before being recruited by the CIA and pitted against a rogue operative in a race to obtain a deadly poison.