The Chemical Reaction

The Chemical Reaction

Author: Fiona Erskine

Publisher: Point Blank

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781786079305

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As Jaq is pulled further into a murky underworld of deceit and corruption, things take an explosive turn...


Crime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth

Crime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth

Author: Cathy Cobb

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2010-03-19

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1615920277

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All new hands-on demonstrations and fictional minute mysteries illustrate chemical concepts as the authors present the science--and the realities--of forensic chemistry in a narrative style that makes this timely topic accessible to the nonchemist.


Chemical Crimes

Chemical Crimes

Author: Cheryl Blake Price

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780814213919

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An exploration of poison's transformation into chemical crime during the nineteenth century and the impact on crime fiction and Victorian perceptions of science.


Your Brain on Food

Your Brain on Food

Author: Gary Lee Wenk

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0199393273

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Draws on new research to answer questions about the effects of specific drugs and foods on the brain, in an updated edition that discusses the role of biorhythms and how drugs interact with the body's biochemistry. --Publisher's description.


The Sky Detective

The Sky Detective

Author: Azadeh Tabazadeh

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1491760613

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When Azadeh was an eight-year-old girl growing up in Iran in March 1973, her uncle gave her a chemistry kit. That got her hooked on science early and provided an opportunity for her to find herself. In The Sky Detective, Azadeh shares her life storyone that includes an insiders look at life during the Islamic Revolution and Iraqi War and details how one little girl grew up to become a gifted scientist. Set inside Iran in the final years of the monarchy, the author narrates a true story of friendship between two girls growing up in the same household in Tehran: Azadeh, the daughter of an affluent engineer, and Najmieh, a child servant who arrives from a small village in northern Iran to live with Azadehs family. When the girls are teenagers, political turmoil interrupts their lives, sending them down different paths. This memoir recalls friendship and faith, the bonds between parents and daughters in a paternalistic society, and the clash of values among relatives from different generations in a family. The Sky Detective describes the rich culture of a beautiful but deeply troubled land undergoing radical transformation. In spite of the hardship that comes along with the establishment of a theocratic regime, Azadeh shows her will and determination as a young woman to persevere and realize her childhood dream of becoming a world-renowned scientist.


Newton and the Counterfeiter

Newton and the Counterfeiter

Author: Thomas Levenson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0571265758

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Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime that the law equated with treason), but was trying to take over the Mint itself. But Chaloner had no idea who he was taking on. Newton pursued his enemy with the cold, implacable logic that he brought to his scientific research. Set against the backdrop of early eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog, its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and revenge transforms our image of Britain's greatest scientist.


Chemical Reactions!

Chemical Reactions!

Author: Susan Berk Koch

Publisher: Explore Your World

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781619309418

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"With 25 science projects for kids"--Cover.


Superheavy

Superheavy

Author: Kit Chapman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1472953916

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 AAAS/SUBARU SB&F PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE BOOKS How new elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousandth of a second – after which it's gone forever. Welcome to the world of the superheavy elements: a realm where scientists use giant machines and spend years trying to make a single atom of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth. From the first elements past uranium, and their role in the atomic bomb, to the latest discoveries stretching the bounds of our chemical world, Superheavy reveals the hidden stories lurking at the edges of the periodic table. Why did US Air Force fly planes into mushroom clouds? Who won the transfermium wars? How did an earthquake help give Japan its first element? And what happened when Superman almost spilled nuclear secrets? In a globe-trotting adventure that stretches from the United States to Russia, Sweden to Australia, Superheavy is your guide to the amazing science filling in the missing pieces of the periodic table. You'll not only marvel at how nuclear science has changed our lives – you'll wonder where it's going to take us in the future.


The World's Greatest Detective

The World's Greatest Detective

Author: Caroline Carlson

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 006236829X

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A 2017 Agatha Award Nominee! * A Best Children’s Book of the Year Pick for Kids 9 to 12 from Bank Street College! Caroline Carlson, author of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series, returns with The World’s Greatest Detective, a story of crime, tricks, and hilarity for those who know that sometimes it takes a pair of junior sleuths to solve a slippery case. Detectives’ Row is full of talented investigators, but Toby Montrose isn’t one of them. He’s only an assistant at his uncle’s detective agency, and he’s not sure he’s even very good at that. Toby’s friend Ivy is the best sleuth around—or at least she thinks so. They both see their chance to prove themselves when the famed Hugh Abernathy announces a contest to choose the World’s Greatest Detective. But when what was supposed to be a game turns into a real-life murder mystery, can Toby and Ivy crack the case?