Chemistry, Not Science: A Book of Poems


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Twenty-two years ago an eleven year old girl wrote a poem that would change her life (and career) forever. It also grew into many poems that, collectively, became Chemistry, Not Science-the words transcending time as they draw upon ageless subjects of love, loss, loneliness, persistence, change and renewal. Written with grace and wit, this contemporary work of poetry aims to pull at one's heartstrings while at the same time eliciting recognitions-Hey, I've felt this way, too!-attempting to both challenge and heal the modern human soul.




Elemental Haiku


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A fascinating little illustrated series of 118 haiku about the Periodic Table of Elements, one for each element, plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized). Originally appearing in Science magazine, this gifty collection of haiku inspired by the periodic table of elements features all-new poems paired with original and imaginative line illustrations drawn from the natural world. Packed with wit, whimsy, and real science cred, each haiku celebrates the cosmic poetry behind each element, while accompanying notes reveal the fascinating facts that inform it. Award-winning poet Mary Soon Lee's haiku encompass astronomy, biology, chemistry, history, and physics, such as "Nickel, Ni: Forged in fusion's fire,/flung out from supernovae./Demoted to coins." Line by line, Elemental Haiku makes the mysteries of the universe's elements accessible to all.




Chemical Poems


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Poetry. "How many gorillas must disappear, so that we can talk comfortably on our cell phones? Tantalum, the chemical element number 73, abundant in African ores, gives us the answer. It makes its confession, along with other ingredients of the world, under the researching pen of Mario Markus. This work removes the threshold between the visible and the invisible, indifference and surprise, science and poetry. The chemical elements are more than gadgets of the universe: they are some of the wonderful responses that shape our bodies and fill our spirits with a lasting plenitude. Markus' frank and rich poetry shows this to us as he relates the elements to wine and pencils, music and lamps, mirrors and the courtship of butterflies. From verse to verse, the periodic table becomes no longer a rigid information scheme, but a window into creation and its most precious truth, which is life."—Fl via Alvares Ganem, Brazilian poet







Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry


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Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and the arts, including the nature of chemical reasoning, the role of symbolism and writing in science, and the relationship between art and craft and science. In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry, Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg bring together twenty-eight of Hoffmann's most important essays. Gathered here are Hoffmann's most philosophically significant and interesting essays and lectures, many of which are not widely accessible. In essays such as "Why Buy That Theory," "Nearly Circular Reasoning," "How Should Chemists Think," "The Metaphor, Unchained," "Art in Science," and "Molecular Beauty," we find the mature reflections of one of America's leading scientists. Organized under the general headings of Chemical Reasoning and Explanation, Writing and Communicating, Art and Science, Education, and Ethics, these stimulating essays provide invaluable insight into the teaching and practice of science.







Science Unbound Through Poetry


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For the past "Urn-teen" years poems have stampeded the entire world. "It is poem mania". Here is a unique way to dazzle your knowledge with leverage, build your skills, become intimate with self knowledge and amaze your spirit. Read Science Unbound through Poetry. This Unique book has figured it out for parents, teachers, students and the like. All of us have sat through science classes and science assignments and feel as dull as the back of a butter knife. Well "NO MORE". All you needed to know was how to connect the learning. This book has done this for you. It has selected all of the basic concepts that connect moving from basic to the more difficult in understanding certain science concepts and how they are related. Each verse in each poem is a stepping stone to success. It gives the critical element of the concept, relates it to the readers experiences, and gives detailed examples all through poems with a contemporary flow that will interest all young people, give parents impressive status, Pulitzers teachers, and confidence among all citizens at home and abroad. All organisms require Phosphorus, Plants obtain it from the soil and thus, Animals eat the plants then after death they decompose, The phosphorus is returned to soil to be used again, of course.




Candid Science: Conversations With Famous Chemists


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In this book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. NMR spectroscopy, computational chemistry, the drama of buckminsterfullerene, the story of the Pill, the politics of atmospheric chemistry and the resonance theory, the beginnings of molecular mechanics and modern stereochemistry are examples of the topics discussed first-hand by, in all likelihood, the most appropriate persons.







The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere


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The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere’s many themes and interests, The Romance of Science assembles historians of science -- all influenced by Levere's work -- to explore such matters as the place and space of instruments in science, the role and meaning of science museums, poetry in nature, chemical warfare and warfare in nature, science in Canada and the Arctic, Romanticism, aesthetics and morals in natural philosophy, and the “dismal science” of economics. The Romance of Science explores the interactions between science's romantic, material, institutional and economic engagements with Nature.