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Title: Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb, Harold Goldwhite ISBN: 0-7382-0594-X Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: key tale told well
Comment: If you have to own one chemistry book, this should be the one. It explains the concepts, frames the drama, and avoids the nomenclature and exasperating detail. Chemistry forms the basis of the material world, and the future of many technologies, ranging from medicine and electronics to materials and environmental science. The approach to chemistry, over the millennia, has defined scientific method and ultimately, philosophy of science. From this book, one can grasp the dramatic outline, with all explanations easily digested, and the dramatic highpoints presented with just the right flourish. These two writers do not come from Oxford but rather a state school in California, and they tell the tale with a simplicity and directness that most anybody can appreciate.
Rating: 4
Summary: Entertaining, the most to say.
Comment: I suspect Cathy Cobb must be a very amusing person. Her historical gleanings about the history of chemistry merit consideration on the basis of what Cathy Cobb has to say about what is an unusually dry subject. As long as rigorous inspection is not your thing, the anecdotes she relates are amusing or are amusing interpretations of not always amusing people and events. I would like to sit in on her classes just to see how students react to her, not her facts. She must be anathema to some of the unenlightened academics that she so outrages by tripping through the hallowed shiboliths and the embalmed reputations of the "leaders in the field' of the history of chemistry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining, informative, opinionated
Comment: Excellent choice for high school or college students trying to get an overview of the field. The author knows her stuff and can present it in fascinating detail. Very readable.
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Title: Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball by Trevor H. Levere ISBN: 0801866103 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Chemical Tree: A History of Chemistry by William H. Brock, A. W. Hofmann ISBN: 0393320685 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks: The Spirited History of Physical Chemistry by Cathy Cobb ISBN: 157392976X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: Prometheans in the Lab by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne ISBN: 0071407952 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus by John Emsley ISBN: 047144149X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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