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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray Staff Pick Beautiful and informative, surprising and smart, The Elements will appeal to your inner geek (even if you didn't know you had one). With unique stories, bizarre facts, and dazzling photographs of the 118 elements in the periodic table, this book will... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Still Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray Publisher Comments Best-selling author Theodore Gray is back with all-new, spectacular experiments that demonstrate basic principles of chemistry and physics in thrilling, and memorable ways. For nearly a decade, Theodore Gray has been demonstrating basic principles of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry (Transformations: Studies on History of Science & Technology) by Alan J Rocke Publisher Comments In 1869, Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) called chemistry a French science. In fact, however, Wurtz was the most internationalist of French chemists. Born in Strasbourg and educated partly in the laboratory of the great Justus Liebig, he spent his career in... (read more) List Price $58.25 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray Publisher Comments Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments. In Mad Science, Theodore Gray launches a toy rocket using the energy released from an Oreo cookie, ignites a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Theodore Gray's Elements Vault: Treasures of the Periodic Table with Removable Archival Documents, a Model Pop-Up Atom, a Poster, and Real Element Samples by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann and Simon Quellen Field Publisher Comments The exploration of the elements continues! Theodore Gray's Elements Vault builds on Gray's best-selling book with all new text, plus removable historic letters and other artifacts and collectible samples of real elements The Elements Vault picks up where... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Polymer Dynamics and Relaxation by Richard Boyd Publisher Comments Polymers exhibit a range of physical characteristics, from rubber-like elasticity to the glassy state. These particular properties are controlled at the molecular level by the mobility of the structural constituents. Remarkable changes in mobility can be... (read more) List Price $205.50 Your price: $44.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey Williams Publisher Comments Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes by Walter Gratzer Publisher Comments Our lives are dominated by giant molecules, which have remarkable properties, some of which are only just being discovered and exploited by science, though many have long been exploited far more effectively by Nature. Giant molecules dominate our lives -... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Much ADO about (Practically) Nothing: A History of the Noble Gases by David Fisher Publisher Comments The six noble gases--so-called because, like the nobility, they do no work--are the rarest elements on Earth. Comprising helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, they are colorless, odorless, invisible gases that do not react with anything and... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Methods in Molecular Biology #2120: Plant Hormones: Methods and Protocols by Sean Cutler Publisher Comments The last ten years have witnessed a monumental increase in our understanding of plant hormones. A decade ago, scientists were forced to rely on vague ideas about hormone action; today, these have been replaced by detailed molecular models. Given the... (read more) List Price $130.25 Your price: $70.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Anisotropic Organic Materials: Approaches to Polar Order (ACS Symposium) by Rainer Glaser Publisher Comments This book examines recent progress in the development and application of optical polymers, molecular crystals, crystals in liquids and liquid crystals. The accomplishment of a high macroscopic polarization is a key issue throughout which transcends the... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes by Walter Gratzer Publisher Comments Our lives are dominated by giant molecules, which have remarkable properties, some of which are only just being discovered and exploited by science, though many have long been exploited far more effectively by Nature. Giant molecules dominate our lives -... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Painless Chemistry (Barron's Painless) by Loris Chen Publisher Comments (back cover) Really. This won't hurt at all . . . The thought of having to learn chemistry once turned brave students into cowards . . . but no more! THE PAIN VANISHES WHEN YOU TRANSFORM CHEMISTRY PROBLEMS INTO FUN-- Learn how chemistry is connected with... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chemistry Demystified, 2nd Edition (Demystified) by Linda Williams Publisher Comments A PROVEN formula for mastering CHEMISTRY Trying to understand chemistry but feel like the information's just not bonding with your brain? Here's your solution. Chemistry Demystified, Second Edition, helps you grasp both fundamental and complex concepts... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Table Personified [With Poster] by Bunpei Yorifuji Publisher Comments Get to Know the Elements! From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face. In this super periodic table, every element is... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Biochemistry Demystified (Demystified) by Sharon Walker Publisher Comments Learn BIOCHEMISTRY without stressing out your brain CELLSTrying to understand the chemical processes of living organisms but having trouble metabolizing the complex concepts? Here's your lifeline! Biochemistry Demystified helps synthesize your... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Interpretation of Radium 4TH Edition by Frederick Soddy Publisher Comments A Nobel Prizewinning chemist explains the nature of radioactivity and the structure of the atom in nontechnical language in this classic scientific text, appropriate for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Beginning with the discovery... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Foundations of Laser Spectroscopy by Stig Stenholm Publisher Comments A simple presentation of the theoretical foundations of steady-state laser spectroscopy, this text helps students to apply theory to calculations with a systematic series of examples and exercises. Detailed derivations offer the opportunity to work out... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb Publisher Comments In this fascinating history, Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite celebrate not only chemistry's theories and breakthroughs but also the provocative times and personalities that shaped this amazing science and brought it to life. Throughout the book, the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chemistry Demystified (Demystified) by Linda D Williams Publisher Comments - Current, real-world examples illustrate the essential nature of the basic elements as they form various states of gasses, liquids, and solids- Covers essentials such as understanding matter; chemcial building blocks; elements, electrons, and the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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