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Soft Cover. First Edition. 16mo. original printed paper wraps (well rubbed & thumbed, prev. owner's details and annotations, some staining); pp. [ii], 78, with maps, photos & diagrams. A good copy.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Enzymes and Equilibria is the eighth volume in a series of thirteen short story collections, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. Between 1970 and 1979, chemistry became the science of the precise, the transient, and the structured. Scientists mapped the exact three-di…mensional folding of proteins, captured the fleeting signatures of highly reactive free radicals, and discovered how life uses chemical gradients to power its cellular infrastructure. They proved that enzymes make strict geometric choices, expanded the rules of bonding with metallic sandwich compounds, and found order arising from chaos in systems pushed far from equilibrium. The laboratory shifted from simply making molecules to understanding the intricate, dynamic rules that govern their shape, their speed, and their assembly. Every story is built around one prize and one discovery, placing the science inside a human situation that brings it to life without simplifying it. A regulator uncovers a food manufacturer using nucleotide sugar intermediates to fraudulently rebuild carbohydrates and evade testing. A forensic chemist identifies the cause of mysterious warehouse fires by measuring the spectroscopic signatures of transient free radicals. An environmental sabotage case hinges on mapping the specific micro-chemistry of an engineered enzyme active site. An industrial explosion investigation becomes a bitter legal battle over an "impossible" organometallic sandwich compound. An art conservator traces the silent degradation of priceless paintings to the changing architecture of macromolecular polymer chains over time. A brewery falls victim to corporate sabotage when an introduced substrate flips the stereochemical preference of a vital enzyme. A hazardous materials team must rethink emergency containment when a chemical behaves according to the delocalised cluster logic of boranes. An engineer realises that a city heating network is being manipulated into a state of dissipative oscillation to force its privatisation. A saboteur targets an algae power system not by breaking equipment, but by introducing a molecule that silently dissipates its life-giving proton gradient. Finally, a forensic lab links a string of counterfeit perfumes to a single rogue chemist through the precise, modular geometry of a synthetic double bond. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1970s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Vitamins and Vapours is the fourth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1930 and 1939, chemistry shifted from extracting nature to replicating its most intimate architectures.…Scientists mapped the chemical constitution of blood and leaves, engineered high-pressure industrial environments, and turned the invisible boundary layers of surface chemistry into a measurable science. They discovered heavy hydrogen, proved that humans could synthesize entirely new radioactive elements, mapped molecular structures using dipole moments, and translated the elusive magic of vitamins and hormones into precise, reproducible organic structures. The laboratory became the place where public health, industrial might, and fundamental physics collided. In this fourth volume, nine prizes become nine works of literary fiction: a counterfeit ring selling fake nutritional extracts that is exposed when a regulator looks past colour to strict structural logic; an engineer who discovers that a high-pressure reactor's mysterious failures are actually subtle, weaponized pressure cycles designed to force a corporate buyout; a corrupt city procurement scheme where inequality is engineered into the skipped surface preparation of an anti-corrosion coating; a fatal factory accident falsely blamed on human error, until heavy hydrogen reveals the unforgiving isotope-sensitive kinetics of the plant; a private medical laboratory that secures its monopoly by manipulating delivery schedules so their competitors' artificial isotopes decay before reaching patients; a smuggling operation that separates polar vapours mid-transit using electric fields, undone by a customs chemist who understands dipole-driven behaviour; a scurvy outbreak in a school caused by a supplier who substitutes a biologically weak structural analogue for true vitamin C; an act of economic warfare waged through the deliberate light-exposure and degradation of fragile carotenoids in a food-storage initiative; and, finally, an act of industrial espionage within a fragrance empire where the stolen property is the architectural secret to building large molecular rings. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1930s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Catalysts and Crucibles is the first volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1901 and 1909, chemistry shifted from an empirical craft into a precise, predictive science. Chemists…learned to calculate the exact speed and balance of reactions, isolated hidden inert gases that rewrote the periodic table, and proved that molecules like sugars could be built from scratch rather than merely extracted. They revealed that dissolved salts split into invisible charged ions, isolated elements of extreme reactivity, and proved that the chemistry of life, like fermentation, relied on molecular machinery, not a mysterious "life force". The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was born at the exact moment the laboratory became a place where nature could not only be explained, but rebuilt. In this opening volume, nine prizes become nine works of literary fiction: a canning entrepreneur whose exploding jars reveal the precise, invisible math of osmotic pressure; an investigator tracking a dangerous counterfeit tonic back to a modular purine toolkit; a poisoning solved by the conductive electrical signature left behind in a teacup; a theatre district plagued by fires caused by suppliers cutting corners with new, invisible noble gases; a textile mill scandal centered on a military dye engineered to degrade over time; an industrial theft where the only stolen property is the thermal recipe of an extreme-temperature electric furnace; a brewer whose ruined shipments prove that yeast extracts, not living cells, do the work of fermentation; a hunt for a stolen radioactive source betrayed by the predictable ticking of its half-life; and, finally, an industrial monopoly built not on a new product, but on the stolen secret of a catalyst's speed. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the first decade of Nobel chemistry not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Pathways and Polymers is the fifth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1943 and 1949, chemistry emerged from the shadow of global conflict with unprecedented power. In just se…ven years, scientists learned to split the uranium nucleus, track the invisible pathways of reactions using radioactive isotopes, and reach the freezing limits of absolute zero to reveal the fundamental laws of thermodynamics. They turned biology into a measurable, isolable science: crystallizing enzymes, purifying viruses until infectivity became a chemical entity, and reading the subtle, electrophoretic patterns hidden inside human blood. The laboratory became intimately entangled with human survival, shaping everything from agricultural food security to the dawn of the atomic age. In this fifth volume, eight prizes become eight works of literary fiction: a munitions lab sabotage exposed when radioactive isotopic tracers reveal an "impossible" chemical side-route; a university laboratory pressured by military intelligence to bury the impossible, world-altering byproducts of nuclear fission; a corrupt village official who engineers economic inequality by manipulating the precise acidic pH required to preserve winter cattle fodder; a quack "vital essence" tonic whose lucrative mystery is destroyed when a biochemist crystallizes its active enzyme; an agricultural crop blight weaponized from a newly purified, laboratory-isolated plant virus protein; a string of seemingly unrelated poisonings traced to a single broker by the structural family tree of plant alkaloids; a medical clinic's misdiagnoses undone by a researcher who reads the true distribution of disease in the electrophoretic separation of blood serum; and, finally, a sensational low-temperature physics claim exposed as a calibration error driven by prestige and instrument mystique. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1940s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Insulin and Intrigue is Book 3 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In these ten stories set from 1920 to 1929, the battle for truth shifts from the bedside to the network, and discovery is… immediately met by the machinery of the state, the market, and the museum. It is a decade where science is sold as spectacle, standards are hardened, and truth is managed through the cold precision of the ledger. Inside these stories, medicine advances through high-stakes episodes where evidence is a double-edged sword. A mountain sanatorium's promise of pure air masks a dangerous mismatch in micro-circulation, while in boxing gyms and elite athletic clubs, new measurements reveal metabolic debts that defy heroic narratives. The arrival of a miracle vial triggers a black-market crisis where the only defense is a rigid chain of custody. A courtroom must weigh the heart's electrical trace against a politically convenient story, and a museum exhibit becomes a battleground over who controls the narrative of causation. From the wards of a prison hospital to the maps of an epidemiologist, discovery is used to challenge the mechanisms of coercion and scapegoating. Finally, in colonial ports and children's homes, the rigid math of calories is used to ignore the quiet, lethal absence of what the body truly needs to survive. Woven through the decade is a recurring cast moving through a world of shifting standards. There is Dr. Eleanor Harrington, a strategist turning proof into branding and institutional survival; Maisie Fenn, an investigations editor building a shadow archive of the anomalies and suppressed drafts that others would rather forget; Silas Crowe, a logistics conscience who learns that integrity makes more enemies than crime; and Dahlia Sato, a "numbers whisperer" who treats measurement as a weapon to protect the body. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, discovery is only the beginning. The real fight is no longer just what is true, but who gets to define it, record it, or quietly replace it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Orbitals and Optics is the seventh volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1960 and 1969, chemistry mapped the fleeting and the complex. Scientists learned to read the age of anci…ent organic matter using carbon isotopes, traced the exact pathway plants use to capture carbon dioxide, and revealed the intricate three-dimensional folding of globular proteins. They gained absolute control over the architecture of industrial plastics, used X-rays to decipher the structures of vital biochemicals, and turned the synthesis of complex natural molecules into a rigorous, strategic discipline. They modelled chemical bonds through molecular orbitals, caught the transient ghosts of ultrafast reactions in the fraction of a second after a flash, described the reciprocal flows of systems pushed out of balance, and proved that molecules are flexible shapes that twist and bend to define their identity. In this seventh volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction. A forensic chemist uses radioactive dating to expose a vintage wine counterfeiting ring. A carbon credit cooperative whose claims of long-term sequestration are undone by tracing the rapid return of carbon to the atmosphere. A research team whose hard-won protein structure is stolen not from a physical sample but from their raw diffraction data. A materials engineer investigates winter toy fractures caused by a silent shift in polymer catalysts. A doctor races against time to crystallise a fragile, decomposing toxin before an outbreak becomes a tragedy. A chemist synthesises a natural product from scratch to prove it is the wrong suspect in an industrial poisoning. A factory management team ignores a theoretical warning about reactive excited states, with devastating results. A saboteur uses ultrafast, transient chemical species to damage equipment without leaving a trace. A smuggling operation exploits near-equilibrium thermodynamics to move illegal cargo through packaging. Finally, a counterfeit perfume ingredient is exposed by the subtle, three-dimensional flexing of its molecular conformation. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1960s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Pathways and Polymers is the fifth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1943 and 1949, chemistry emerged from the shadow of global conflict with unprecedented power. In just s…even years, scientists learned to split the uranium nucleus, track the invisible pathways of reactions using radioactive isotopes, and reach the freezing limits of absolute zero to reveal the fundamental laws of thermodynamics. They turned biology into a measurable, isolable science: crystallizing enzymes, purifying viruses until infectivity became a chemical entity, and reading the subtle, electrophoretic patterns hidden inside human blood. The laboratory became intimately entangled with human survival, shaping everything from agricultural food security to the dawn of the atomic age. In this fifth volume, eight prizes become eight works of literary fiction: a munitions lab sabotage exposed when radioactive isotopic tracers reveal an 'impossible' chemical side-route; a university laboratory pressured by military intelligence to bury the impossible, world-altering byproducts of nuclear fission; a corrupt village official who engineers economic inequality by manipulating the precise acidic pH required to preserve winter cattle fodder; a quack 'vital essence' tonic whose lucrative mystery is destroyed when a biochemist crystallizes its active enzyme; an agricultural crop blight weaponized from a newly purified, laboratory-isolated plant virus protein; a string of seemingly unrelated poisonings traced to a single broker by the structural family tree of plant alkaloids; a medical clinic's misdiagnoses undone by a researcher who reads the true distribution of disease in the electrophoretic separation of blood serum; and, finally, a sensational low-temperature physics claim exposed as a calibration error driven by prestige and instrument mystique. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1940s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light.
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