Chemistry and Other Stories

Chemistry and Other Stories
Author: Ron Rash
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466828064

Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

Chemistry and Other Stories

Chemistry and Other Stories
Author: Ron Rash
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312425082

In Rash's stories, spanning the entire 20th century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era where the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

What's Chemistry All About?

What's Chemistry All About?
Author: Alex Frith
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1409585328

An approachable introduction to what chemistry is, how it works and why it is vital to everyday life. Topics include: the periodic table, atom structure, radiation and the scientific method, all illustrated with humorous illustrations and diagrams. Simple experiments are provided to aid learning and internet links to recommended websites are provided so readers can find out more. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet.

Perfect Chemistry

Perfect Chemistry
Author: Simone Elkeles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0857076639

From the New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epic love story like no other . . . First in the gripping PERFECT CHEMISTRY series, this is the next addictive read for fans of Anna Todd's AFTER series, and Caroline Kepnes's YOU. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. Forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, Brittany finds herself having to protect everything she's worked so hard for – her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend and, most importantly, the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But the closer Alex and Brittany get to each other the more they realise that sometimes appearances can be deceptive and that you have to look beneath the surface to discover the truth. 'Compelling and addictive… I've still got that "wow" feeling you get after reading a great book' Wondrousreads.com 'Perfect Chemistry is a novel to obsess about. It is a book that you should drop everything for...the most romantic love story that I have ever read.' Thebookette.com 'Captures that rush of feelings associated with first love' Thebookbag.com 'Elkeles pens plenty of tasteful, hot scenes…that keep the pages turning. The author definitely knows how to write romance.' Kirkus Review

The Story of Chemistry

The Story of Chemistry
Author: Anne Rooney
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1788880552

'The importance of the end in view prompted me to undertake all this work, which seemed to me destined to bring about a revolution in physics and chemistry.' Antoine Lavoisier, 1773 Great advances in human history have often rested on and prompted progress in chemistry. The exploitation of fire, the development of pigments, and the discovery that metals could be smelted and worked laid the foundations of civilization. The search for better tools and weapons drove metallurgy, and the need for medicines and perfumes lay behind the first laboratories. This book traces a story of exploration and discovery, from the earliest applications of chemistry by our ancient forebears. For more than 1,000 years, alchemists pursued the transformation of matter until the advent of modern chemistry in the 17th century set us on the path to the complex science of today. Topics include: • prechemistry since prehistory • alchemy and the transmutation of metals • the rise of the scientific method • identifying the chemical elements • understanding gases • the nature of the atom • organic chemistry • chemical analysis Beautifully illustrated throughout

Strange Chemistry

Strange Chemistry
Author: Steven Farmer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-06-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119265290

This book opens the audience’s eyes to the extraordinary scientific secrets hiding in everyday objects. Helping readers increase chemistry knowledge in a fun and entertaining way, the book is perfect as a supplementary textbook or gift to curious professionals and novices. • Appeals to a modern audience of science lovers by discussing multiple examples of chemistry in everyday life • Addresses compounds that affect everyone in one way or another: poisons, pharmaceuticals, foods, and illicit drugs; thereby evoking a powerful emotional response which increases interest in the topic at hand • Focuses on edgy types of stories that chemists generally tend to avoid so as not to paint chemistry in a bad light; however, these are the stories that people find interesting • Provides detailed and sophisticated stories that increase the reader’s fundamental scientific knowledge • Discusses complex topics in an engaging and accessible manner, providing the “how” and “why” that takes readers deeper into the stories

Curious Tales from Chemistry

Curious Tales from Chemistry
Author: Lars Öhrström
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015
Genre: Chemical elements
ISBN: 9780191916885

This is a book about discovery and disaster, exploitation and invention, warfare and science - and the relationship between human beings and the chemical elements that make up our planet. Lars Öhrström introduces us to a variety of elements from S to Pb through tales of ordinary and extraordinary people from around the globe. We meet African dictators controlling vital supplies of uranium; 18th-century explorers searching out sources of precious metals; industrial spies stealing the secrets of steel-making. We find out why the Hindenburg airship was tragically filled with hydrogen, not helium; why nail-varnish remover played a key part in World War I; and the real story behind the legend of tin buttons and the downfall of Napoleon.

How Do Molecules Stay Together?

How Do Molecules Stay Together?
Author: Madeline J. Hayes
Publisher: How Do
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781486717903

Come along on a science adventure to discover how molecules form groups, how chemicals interact, and so much more! This fun question and answer book has everything from facts and figures to simple diagrams and hilarious illustrations to help you learn introductory chemistry terms and concepts, including states of matter, chemical reactions, atoms, compounds, elements, molecules, and more.

Basic Chemistry

Basic Chemistry
Author: Karen C. Timberlake
Publisher: Pearson Educacion
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2012-12
Genre: Chemistry
ISBN: 9780321866264

Maintaining the clear, approachable writing style characteristic of author Karen Timberlake, Basic Chemistry, Fourth Edition, adds to its suite of problem-solving tools and techniques necessary for success in chemistry. Engaging new features such as end-of-section Math Practice problems, video tutorials and Math Review Modules allow readers to practice and master quantitative skills. Popular features, including "Combining Ideas" sections and end-of-chapter questions, have also been strengthened and expanded. Modern real-world applications help students connect chemical principles to events in their world, while stories involving careers illustrate the importance of chemistry in future careers.

The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 174253452X

When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London’s Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project: a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It’s an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age’s downfall. Once Catherine discovers the diary of the man who commissioned it, one obsession merges into another.