Chemistry

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The Poison Paradox: Chemicals As Friends and Foes
by John Timbrell
38 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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bluepiano: Until this one, I'd never dreamed I'd read a book on biochemistry let alone find such a book utterly fascinating.
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Artist's Little Book of Color
by Simon Jennings
28 members
1 review
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aulsmith: In part an explanation of the chemistry of artist's pigments.
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
by Oliver Sacks
2,424 members
58 reviews
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
by Tom Zoellner
394 members
12 reviews
3.8
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by Deborah Blum
2,637 members
135 reviews
4.1
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
by Penny Le Couteur
1,461 members
24 reviews
3.8
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
by John Emsley
285 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
by Jeremy Bernstein
144 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane
521 members
11 reviews
4.2
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Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors
by Günther Ohloff
15 members
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Gunpowder: The Explosive That Changed the World
by Jack Kelly
294 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
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Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935
by Claudia Clark
45 members
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Hydrogen: The Essential Element
by John S. Rigden
115 members
2 reviews
4.1
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Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission
by Bernard Jaffe
224 members
3 reviews
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The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
by Richard Morris
155 members
3.8
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
by Hervé This
564 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms
by Peter Atkins
74 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Norton History of Chemistry
by William H. Brock
178 members
½ 3.3
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
by Paul Strathern
359 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Every Molecule Tells a Story
by Simon Cotton
17 members
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Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
by Simon Quellen Field
277 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms
by Robert B. Grossman
56 members
5
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Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks: The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry
by Cathy Cobb
31 members
1 review
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Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age
by Cathy Cobb
105 members
1 review
3.8
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Chemistry of Spices (Cabi)
by V.A. Parthasarathy
18 members
½ 4.5
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Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century
by Stephen Fenichell
83 members
½ 3.7
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Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms
by Michel Cassé
27 members
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Molecules of Death
by R. H. Waring
13 members
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150 Captivating Chemistry Experiments Using Household Substances
by Brian Rohrig
17 members
4
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Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
by Eric D. Schneider
161 members
3 reviews
4
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by James D. Watson
3,295 members
50 reviews
3.8
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Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac?: The Sociochemistry of an Element
by William R. Cullen
12 members
5
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Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!: How Chemistry Changed the First World War
by Michael Freemantle
43 members
1 review
5
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What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
by Robert L. Wolke
1,286 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World
by Stephen R. Bown
118 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
by Simon Garfield
967 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Physics and Chemistry of Color: The Fifteen Causes of Color
by Kurt Nassau
41 members
5
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Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function
by K. Peter C. Vollhardt
210 members
3.9
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
by Manjit Kumar
1,028 members
25 reviews
4
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Molecules That Changed the World
by K. C. Nicolaou
43 members
½ 3.5
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