Fifty Fascinating Molecules From A to Z, Volume 1 follows on from the author’s earlier books Every Molecule Tells a Story and Every Molecule Matters and relates the stories of a wide range of molecules.They encompass familiar names – medicines including aspirin, cisplatin and morphine; flavourings such as menthol and vanillin; and substances of abuse such as cocaine and methamphetamine. But there are the unexpected, like the poisons that appear in the sto...

Every Molecule Matters is a successor to the author’s earlier Every Molecule Tells a Story and tells the story of a wide range of molecules.These range from the familiar odours that enhance the pleasure of eating (and the spices that add piquancy) to the vitamins vital to our survival, as well as the ways in which insects and plants use chemicals to protect themselves. There’s controversy surrounding the compounds of chlorine, which encompass life...

A series of short stories for young children, with music and sound effects. Join Billy and Jess as they learn about the natural world, how plants grow, how the weather changes and the seasons turn, and how to explore this world safely.

LANTHANIDE AND ACTINIDE CHEMISTRYLanthanides and actinides, also known as “f elements,” are a group of metals which share certain important properties and aspects of electronic structure. They have a huge range of applications in the production of electronic devices, magnets, superconductors, fuel cells, sensors, and more. The cursory treatment of these important metals in most inorganic chemistry textbooks makes a book-length treatment essential.Since 2006...

Every Molecule Tells a Story, Second Edition continues the celebration of molecules responsible for the experiences of everyday life: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the chemicals that fuel our living, the steroids that give us sex, the colours of the seasons, the drugs that heal us, and the scented molecules that enrich our diet and our encounters with each other. You can’t see them, but you know that they are there. This latest edition presents new sections, including od...

We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existentialist piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as "a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative value...