Gas Chromatography (Chrom-Ed Book Series) by The Reese-Scott Partnership
Gas Chromatography is one of the most useful and generally applicable analytical techniques and is a mainstay of many analytical laboratories. In this concise but comprehensive book, by a renowned author, both the physico-chemical principles and their practical application are explained and illustrated with many useful examples. This book will be of great value not only to the beginner, but also...
Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewing Elements Series) by Brewers Publications $19.95
Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation is a resource for brewers of all experience levels. The authors adeptly cover yeast selection, storage and handling of yeast cultures, how to culture yeast and the art of rinsing/washing yeast cultures. Sections on how to set up a yeast lab, the basics of fermentation science and how it affects your beer, plus step by step procedures, equipment...
What's Gotten into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World by Random House $26.00
What’s Gotten into Us? is a deep, remarkable, and empowering investigation into the threats—biological and environmental—that chemicals now present in our daily lives. Do you know what chemicals are in your shampoo? How about your cosmetics? Do you know what’s in the plastic water bottles you drink from, or the weed killer in your garage, or your children’s pajamas? If you’re like...
Chemistry (Quickstudy: Academic) by QuickStudy $4.95
Best-selling quick reference to chemistry. Chemistry essentials for students just beginning in chemistry or as an excellent reference throughout higher-level courses. 4-page laminated guide includes: • atomic structure • nuclear chemistry • atomic quantum numbers/orbitals • electronic atoms • types of matter/reactions • physical processes • nomenclature/stoichiometry • chemical...
Chemistry Equations & Answers (Quickstudy: Academic) by QuickStudy $5.95
This 6-page study guide contains basic chemistry analysis and concepts designed specifically to aid science students. Topics covered include: - basic skills & math review - statistics - atomic data - chemical formula calculations - stoichiometry - gas law calculations - solids & liquids - thermodynamics - acid-base &...
Principles and Practice of Chromatography (Chrom-Ed Book Series) by Reese-Scott Partnership
Chromatography is probably the most powerful and versatile technique available to the chemical analyst. In this concise but comprehensive introduction, by a renowned author, both the physico-chemical principles and their practical application are explained and illustrated with many useful examples. This book will be of great value not only to the beginner, but also to the more experienced...
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs by PublicAffairs $26.99
Marc Lewis’s relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta’s opium dens. Ultimately,...
Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Da Capo Press $26.00
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a...
The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers by Donna K. Wallace $21.99
In The Healthy Home, a father and son--Dr. Myron Wentz, well-known microbiologist and founder of the USANA Corporation, and Dave Wentz, CEO of the USANA Corporation--take readers on a tour of a specific home for a look at the surprising health risks posed by the everyday products and behaviors of a modern family. Beginning in the bedroom and ending in the garage and backyard, readers learn about...