Chemistry - best books
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Ingredients: A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives & 25 Food Products
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Steve Ettlinger
3.72 avg rating — 155 ratings 100. 
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
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Lauren Slater
3.79 avg rating — 808 ratings 
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Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
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Beth Gardiner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 223 ratings 
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Spins in Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
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Roy McWeeny
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 108. 
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution 3.50 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
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Alex Prud’homme
3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings 
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
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Kristin Ohlson
4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 117. 
Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications
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Allen J. Bard
4.47 avg rating — 66 ratings 119. 
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
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Paul S. Sutter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases
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John Emsley
4.18 avg rating — 251 ratings 
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The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
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Mircea Eliade
4.16 avg rating — 759 ratings 
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The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
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Joe Schwarcz
3.97 avg rating — 237 ratings 129. 
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature 4.05 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague 3.74 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
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John V. Fleming
3.20 avg rating — 200 ratings 134. 
Vanity, Vitality, and Virility: The Science behind the Products You Love to Buy
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John Emsley
3.54 avg rating — 79 ratings 
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The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food 3.77 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
by:
Patrick Coffey
4.07 avg rating — 145 ratings 140. 
Investigating Chemistry: A Forensic Science Perspective
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Matthew E. Johll
4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements
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Peter Atkins
3.50 avg rating — 538 ratings 144. 
The Green Flame: Surviving Government Secrecy
by:
Andrew Dequasie
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 145. 
The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
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Richard Morris
3.66 avg rating — 148 ratings 146. 
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What's Cooking in Chemistry?: How Leading Chemists Succeed in the Kitchen
by:
Hubertus P. Bell
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 151.
Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History
by:
Susan M. Gaines
3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings 152. 
Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals
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David A. Dunmur
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 153. 
Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac?: The Sociochemistry of an Element it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
by:
Jack Kelly
3.96 avg rating — 388 ratings 158. 
Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
by:
Jeff Potter
4.05 avg rating — 3,740 ratings 159. 
Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
by:
Hervé This
3.87 avg rating — 1,092 ratings 160. 
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
by:
Eileen Welsome
4.27 avg rating — 594 ratings 161. 
Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935
by:
Claudia Clark
3.96 avg rating — 332 ratings 
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From Sugar to Splenda: A Personal and Scientific Journey of a Carbohydrate Chemist and Expert Witness
by:
Bert Fraser-Reid
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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A World From Dust: How the Periodic Table Shaped Life
by:
Ben McFarland
4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings 168. 
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
by:
Deborah Blum
3.93 avg rating — 4,797 ratings 171. 
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
by:
Paul J. Nahin
4.25 avg rating — 40 ratings 
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
by:
David S. Abraham
4.07 avg rating — 249 ratings