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The Periodic Table: Elements with Style
by Adrian Dingle

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The Periodic Table introduces budding chemists to the world of the elements as it's never been seen before. Designed to resemble popular networking Web sites, the pages of this book feature "homepages" for each of the chemical elements--complete with... (read more)
 
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Food Science

The Homebrewer's Companion
by Charles Papazian

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The Homebrewer’s Companion is for brewers who have read The Complete Joy of Hombrewing and discovered the fun and rewards of brewing their own beer and are now ready for more in-depth information. Papazian covers all areas of the process and... (read more)
 
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Biochemistry

The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston

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The first major bioterror event in the United States — the anthrax attacks in October 2001 — was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon... (read more)
 
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Organic

Organic Chemistry Demystified (Demystified)
by Daniel Bloch

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There' s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects "Organic Chemistry Demystified" follows the organization of standard organic chemistry courses and can also be used as a study guide for the MCAT (Medical College... (read more)
 
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Curiosities

Lee's Priceless Recipes
by N T Oliver

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At the turn of the 20th century, it was popular to publish books that professed to include virtually all knowledge to date. Most popular of the genre were the books of "secret" recipes, revealing industrial secrets to the layman. First published in... (read more)
 
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Chemical Engineering

Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
by Maureen Ogle

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In the first-ever history of American beer, Maureen Ogle tells its epic story, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it. Beer might seem as American as baseball, but that has not always been true: Rum and whiskey... (read more)
 
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Study Guides

Schaums Outline of Beginning Chemist 3RD Edition
by David E Goldberg

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This clear and complete guide to the fundamentals of chemistry features course material in a succinct outline form, together with hundreds of detailed, fully solved problems. A perfect companion to most standard texts, this third edition has been updated... (read more)
 
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Handbooks

Perrys Chemical Engineers Handbook 7TH Edition
by Robert H Perry

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The Platinum Edition presents the complete content of Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook, Seventh Edition, in both print and electronic formats packaged together and now available at one great price. At 2,640 pages, with 1,700 illustrations, the print... (read more)
 
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Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry Principles & Apps 4TH Edition
by Ignacio Tinoco

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This best-selling volume presents the principles and applications of physical chemistry as they are used to solve problems in biology and medicine. The First Law; the Second Law; free energy and chemical equilibria; free energy and physical Equilibria... (read more)
 
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Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820
by Jan Golinski

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Examines the development of chemistry in Britain 1760???1820 and relates it to civic life.... (read more)
 
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Molecular Origami: Precision Scale Models from Paper Molecular Origami: Precision Scale Models from Paper
by Robert M Hanson

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A hands-on guide with tear-out pages to help high school and college students understand the basic structure and chemistry of matter. Draws on the Japanese art of paper folding to provide patterns and instructions for constructing three-dimensional... (read more)
 
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Polymers

Polymers: The Origin and Growth of a Science (Dover Phoneix Editions)
by Herbert Morawetz

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"Every once in a while, a truly unique book appears that stands out from all the rest. Professor Morawetz' latest work is such a book! It presents a thoroughly readable, yet scholarly history of polymer science from Berzelius (who coined the term... (read more)
 
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Analytic

Practical HPLC Methodology and Applications
by Brian A. Bidlingmeyer

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Of related interest… Trace and Ultratrace Analysis by HPLC Satinder Ahuja Written by a leading scientist in the field, this monograph provides the first definitive and technically up-to-date treatment of the theory, equipment, and applications... (read more)
 
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Inorganic

Inorganic Polymers
by Roger De (edt) Jaeger

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With interest increasing in inorganic macromolecules for their potential in industrial and technological applications, editors De Jaeger (U. des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France) and Gleria (Instituto ISTM del CNR, Padova, Italy) decided to... (read more)
 
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Reference

Handbook of Industrial Toxicology, 3rd Edition
by E R Plunkett

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Practical and quick, this reference is for those involved in protecting worker's health. Organized for rapid access, clarity, and conciseness, its contents list various chemicals, drugs, insecticides, and other compounds that can cause problems. Each... (read more)
 
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The Attic

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Vol. 5
by Barbara Elvers

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For more than eighty years, the name Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry has been synonymous with information of the highest quality. Chemists and engineers in industry and academia know that they can rely on the knowledge and expertise of... (read more)
 
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General

Cartoon Guide To Chemistry (05 Edition)
by Larry Gonick

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A refreshingly humorous but thorough ancillary guide to general chemistry from the author of the bestselling The Cartoon Guide to Physics and The Cartoon Guide to Genetics. The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, a collaboration between pre–eminent... (read more)
 
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