Chemistry Books

As a research student, I find this book essential, easy to read and understand. It gives great references and detailed information concerning solid phase synthesis and major tools in combinatorial chemistry. Great book to have in the laboratory shelf right next to the working bench for quickly looking up information concerning a resin description or a particular synthetic approach.

If you plan on working in combustion, this is the book!
Well written, clear and enlightening.
Prof. Williams' presentation of the subject is outstanding and flawless. I suggest to start from the appendix on Kinetic theory, reading Physical Gadynamics by Vincenti & Kruger is strongly recommended.
I would not recommend it to beginners, start with the book by Kuo instead.

Series of articles considering the role of comets in the evolution of Earth's biosphere. For example, A. Delsemme writes about The Origin of the Atmosphere and of the Oceans. It is argued that Earth's atmosphere and its oceans, as well as much of the carbon found in its biosphere, was brought to the Earth by comets. Although present-day impacts of comets are modest, in the first billion years, and especially first half billion years, of the Earth's existence, a large bombardment of comets occurred, as reflected by the cratering record observed on the Moon, Mars and Mercury. The cometary delivery of matter would explain the siderophile metals in the Earth's crust, and would explain how an ocean and atmosphere remained despite depletion by large body impacts.

I have a chronic blood problem which ended up with the collection of a lot of blood data over a period of time. Without becoming a hemotolgist I wanted to learn more about the various blood test groupings and how thay realated to each other to help take control of my own health. This book helped reach that objective with clear, concise descriptions of the major blood tests involved.

This little compact book is an excellent guide for people wondering what basics they should know and be proficient in for internship. Senanayake writes for an Australian audience, but the cases are universal so I imagine this would help a lot of budding clinicians. What I find so useful about the book is that it indicates really clearly what the basics of these common cases are, and what the first line and follow up treatment should be. It cuts through all the theoretical verbiage that one has to know to pass exams and gets to the heart of the matter for each case, answering, why is this person unwell? What do I think is going wrong? How can I find out? and How should I treat?.

Really helpful overview of classic clinical cases

Communicating Chemistry: Textbooks And Their Audiences, 1789-1939 is a scholarly collection of outstanding historical essays that will be read with profitable enjoyment by students of the history science and education in general, and the history of chemistry in particular. Beginning with John Hedley Brooke's informative introduction "The Study of Chemical Textbooks", the contributors survey French, Spanish, and British chemistry books developed for academic instruction over an approximately 150 year time frame. Communicating Chemistry is a highly recommended benchmark publication of considerable, ground breaking scholarship in a seminal and specialized subject.

This companion to a good book thoroughly describes solutions to the exercises in the textbook. No errors found so far.

Japanese manufacturers are less vertically integrated than their American or European counterparts. They tend to be smaller and more specialized. For example, Toyota outsources about 75% of components; in the US only Chrysler reaches this degree. But Japanese firms don¡¯t organize the vertical chain through arm¡¯s length transaction. Instead, they rely on a web of long-term, informal relationships between firms up and down the vertical chain. Unlike the
hostile relationships many American and European firms have with subcontractors, in Japan, these relationships involve a much higher degree of cooperation and delegation of a more sophisticated set of responsibilities to subcontractor. This kind of relationship is cited as an excellent example of the trust-based interfirm networks which substantially reduce the transaction cost involved in transactions along the value chain, and is known as the vertical keiretsu.
Such interfirm networks have persisted since the Meiji period, and were constructed in an effort to reduce the uncertainty engendered by market fluctuation. If it¡¯s not the commodified items, frequent switching of subcontractor could result in instability in the quality and quantity of it. With trust-based long-term relationship, they could expect timely delivery, quality control, and stable supply. But this trust-based long-term relationship introduced the rigidity and inflexibility to cope with the dramatic shifts in the environment. The first oil crisis posed a serious threat to the viability of Japanese firms. Cut-throat competition over shrunken international market drove the Japanese firms to enhance competitiveness in all front from cost, quality and the lead time. In doing so, they changed the dynamics of the networks. What they introduced is the subject of this book, in the words of the author, ¡®competitive-cum-cooperation governance, in short, CCC governance. The author deals with the interfirm governance in Japanese semiconductor industry, in particular. But the findings could be applied to other industries like auto, electronics.
CCC governance was developed to introduce the uncertainty in the vertical chain to create market-like effect. While maintaining cooperative links, semiconductor manufacturers imposed several competition-generating measures: strategic pricing, multiple sourcing, and altering procurement sourcing. In strategic pricing, interacting companies cooperatively developed a schedule for reducing prices. In multiple sourcing, semiconductor companies purchased the same parts and materials from multiple sources, so that competition took place among them. While awarding stable cash flows to subcontractors, semiconductor manufacturers could secure the continuous improvement of price and quality. According to data the author provides, the prices were much lower than the spot market transactions. In the words of the author, With CCC governance the Japanese semiconductor firms secured both the allocative efficiency which is the feature of market governance, and the non-allocative efficiency which is the feature of hierarchical governance.
Now you might ask ¡®Is there any reason to coin another neologism? There is already the mountain of seemingly different words which actually have one and the same reference.¡¯ Maybe. The vertical keiretsu could cover the same phenomenon. But author¡¯s intention lies in demonstrating the feature of network which has both cooperation and competition while securing the competitiveness. I think author persuasively illustrates it. And better, he does so not with case study which is hard to represent the population, but with the survey technique. This feature, however, is the weakness at the same time. The author succeeds in drawing out overall picture of the industry. But it lacks the rich depth of the usual business case studies. This makes the book somewhat dry. But I think it worth reading, if you are interested in the Japanese business.

This is a very handy resource for the practicing laboratory alchemist. Discusses both metal and plant preparations.

well i thought that the book was good, and even though it was introduced to me in high school, i think that maybe it is for the more mature crowd. if you can get passed the text then you will really enjoy the book. it is best to read the book along with its footnotes. not only is it a little easier on the reader, but it is also more enjoyable when you can actually understand what it is you are reading. but over all the book was excellent. i think of it as one of marlowe's greatest works.