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  • Culinary Reactions

    The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking

    Exploring the scientific principles behind everyday recipes, this informative blend of lab book and cookbook reveals that cooks are actually chemists. Following or modifying recipes is shown to be an experiment with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. This easy-to-follow primer includes recipes that demonstrate the scientific concepts, such as Whipped Creamsicle Topping (a ... Read more

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  • Why Is Milk White?

    & 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions

    When it comes to chemistry, most kids have more questions than answers. Why do you get cavities when you eat too much sugar? How does sun block protect your skin from getting a sunburn? What makes soda so fizzy? And why do you need antifreeze in your car? Teenager Alexa Coelho quizzed her neighbor, chemist Simon Field, with hundreds of perplexing questions, and now she has the answers. Field ... Read more

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  • Boom!

    The Chemistry and History of Explosives

    Black powder, the world's first chemical explosive, was originally developed during the Tang dynasty in China.It was a crude mixture at first, but over time chemists discovered the optimum proportion of sulfur, charcoal, and nitrates, as well as the best way to mix them for a complete and powerful reaction. Author and chemistry buff Simon Quellen Field takes readers on a decades-long journey ... Read more

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  • Gut Reactions

    The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

    How much do you really know about how the human body works—how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we're left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States. Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food ... Read more

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  • A Distant Beacon

    Sarah is used to waking up in strange places.Her multiple personalities are not aware of one another. But this time is special. She is in a hospital after brain surgery to cure her condition.The personality that checked into the hospital is not Sarah, however, and Sarah learns that in the past seven years, she has married, and then killed her husband in the last few days.She is now in a race to ... Read more

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  • A Twisted Garden

    What would it be like to be genetically engineered? To have your genes selected from thousands of the most successful athletes, scientists, businessmen, and scholars from all over the world? Jack Wright knows because that's just what was done to him. Growing up with the expectations of greatness, all his successes taken for granted, all his accomplishments attributed to his genes, he can run ... Read more

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  • A Simple Piece of Mind

    Jerry has half a brain, and half a mind to use it.After his accident left him missing large parts of his brain, a computer chip was implanted to try to connect the pieces that were left. This left him, in his words, funny.He lives with other funny people in a clinic for people like him, each of them with a unique take on life, given to them by their special gifts.But when Jerry meets a funny ... Read more

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  • Raven

    When she's not on the medication that keeps her sane, Raven is highly intelligent.But during one of her lucid periods, she discovers that she is transmitting radio signals from an implanted device in her spine.Is this what causes her symptoms? Who is tracking her? And why?She and her new friends race to find out because the medications are killing her, and she doesn't have a lot of time left. ... Read more

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  • Local Grown

    When two body dump cases land on his desk, detective Matt London soon finds himself unraveling a web of marijuana growers, dealers, money launderers, and more dead bodies than the county Sheriff's department has ever seen.But none of the shady characters he encounters seem more than peripherally involved in the killings.Are they suspects, or the next victims? ... Read more

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  • Immortal Reactions

    In the last few years, research has exploded in the field of longevity. We now have an understanding of most of the mechanisms of aging, giving us a handle on slowing the process, and a pathway to reversing it.Explore the reasons we age, why we age more slowly than most other animals, what goes wrong, and what to do about it. Delve into the latest science and what is in store for the very near ... Read more

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  • Bloodlines

    June Clemson's mother Rachel is laundering 22 million reasons to keep her past a secret, even from her daughter.But when June's innocent DNA test reveals relatives she didn't know existed, she puts her life and that of everyone she meets in grave danger. ... Read more

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  • What Tigers Know About Entropy

    Randall Story isn't from around here.He knows he can get home. He just has to work to make the world a better place, a little bit at a time.But a lifetime of work is now threatened by people who have learned how to extract energy from the order of the universe.They seem to be unaware that every watt they extract makes the world descend a little more into chaos. ... Read more

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