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The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
Author | : Philip Ball |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2004-04-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0192840991 |
This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author takes the reader on an engaging and entertaining tour: from the Greek philosophers who propounded a system with four elements - earth, air, fire, and water - to the modern-day scientists who are able to create their own.
Joseph Priestley and the Discovery of Oxygen
Author | : Kate A. Conley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781584153672 |
Profiles the life of the man credited with the discovery of Earth's most abundant element, oxygen.
The Invention of Air
Author | : Steven Johnson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594488528 |
Bestselling author Johnson recounts the story of Joseph Priestley--scientist and theologian, protege of Benjamin Franklin--an 18th-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the U.S.
Oxygen
Author | : Donald E. Canfield |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691168369 |
The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planet The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. Canfield guides readers through the various lines of scientific evidence, considers some of the wrong turns and dead ends along the way, and highlights the scientists and researchers who have made key discoveries in the field. Showing how Earth’s atmosphere developed over time, Oxygen takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of the oxygenation of our planet.
Oxygen
Author | : Nick Lane |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0198607830 |
Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives and deaths, explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. Advancing revelatory new ideas, following chains of evidence, the book ranges through many disciplines, from environmental sciences to molecular medicine. Damage to DNA caused by oxidative stress appears to explain aging and many of its diseases, hence the popularity in alternative health circles of antioxidants. But antioxidants alone fail to prevent aging. Lane suggests two different avenues of study: modulation of the immune system, which generates free radicals as part of its defense against infectious diseases; and ways of improving the health of our cellular mitochondria, on which many age-related ailments seem to depend. Provocative and complexly argued. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.