All Culture and people articles – Page 192
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Warming to Gaia
James Lovelock, born in 1919, was a frustrated physicist who graduated in chemistry and published in journals from astronomy to zoology
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Writing up your research
This book aims to mentor early-career researchers through the difficult crucial steps of knowing how to write
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Physical meets biological
This new book gives a nice introduction to current aspects of the interface between physical chemistry and molecular biology
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Reactions with arrows
This book sets out to bridge the gap between the teaching lab and the research laboratory
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Starting from quantum theory
The aim is to produce a book to accompany teaching physical chemistry according to this philosophy
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Welcome to the nanoworld
The book is perfectly balanced and contains many new chapters with detailed and comprehensive information
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Molecules on a large scale
the second edition of Steed and Atwood's Supramolecular chemistry is the most comprehensive overview of the area available in textbook form
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Jump start thermodynamics
The book provides a coherent and refreshing introduction to thermodynamics, restricting itself to simple algebra with no calculus
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Arrow-pushing in organic chemistry: An easy approach to understanding reaction mechanisms
From the blurb for this new text, I expected a student-friendly book
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Chemistry primer
It provides students with an understanding of the fundamental principles of chemistry on which to build later studies
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Bio-aided chemistry
The latest volume in a series primarily aimed at postgraduates and researchers published by Wiley
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Chemical basis of biology
An excellent new textbook in this area targeted at third and fourth year undergraduates
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Fundamentals of asymmetric catalysis
The book deals with Lewis acid, Lewis base, metal-based catalysis and organic catalysis
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Careers
Profile: Life, but not as we know it
In Second Life real people live in a virtual world. Joanna Scott has a actual job there, organising scientific events within the online environment, reports Sarah Houlton
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OpinionThiele tube
Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis
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Profile: Criminal chemistry
Helen Bandey faced choosing between a scientific career and the police force. But then she found the perfect job as a scientist at the Home Office, as she tells Yfke Hager