About this title: Newton, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein and other great physicists and biologists are household names, but the great chemists have received little recognition. Yet it could be argued that chemistry, more than any other scientific discipline, has made the modern world possible, largely through products that we take for granted. In the style of the biology classic, The Microbe Hunters, acclaimed science writer Sharon Bertsch McGrayne tells the history of the chemical revolution through the lives of the men who created it. We don't recognize their names, but their legacy is all around us. Before ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780071350075ISBN:0071350071
Description: Very Good in Fine jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter purple cloth with gold lettering stamped on spine; lavender paper over boards. 243 pages. CONDITION: Book VERY GOOD, but Ex-library, with stamps on ffep, title page, and tex block edges; text otherwise unmarked; binding tight and square; light water damage at top and back of book (back board slightly warped; some pages with small stains and wrinkled edges); DJ FINE, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Trade
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780071350075ISBN:0071350071
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 0071350071. Previous owner's name to fpep, no dj, publishing mark. Else a very clean and tight copy. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. Chemistry.; 1 x 9.32 x 6.42 Inches; 143 pages; Newton, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein and other great physicists and biologists are household names, but the great chemists have received little recognition. Yet it could be argued that chemistry, more than any other scientific discipline, has made the modern world ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Date Published: 2001-07-25
ISBN-13:9780071350075ISBN:0071350071
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date Published: 2002-08-01
ISBN-13:9780071407953ISBN:0071407952
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