Taking Things Apart and Puttings Things Together

This lively, informative, and imaginatively illustrated volume sums up the vital role chemistry plays in our daily lives with easy-to-read case histories, cartoons, magnificent photographs, and illustrations. Case histories tell the fascinating stories of aluminum, insulin, penicillin, polio vaccine, anesthetics, cosmetics, plastics, rubber, gasoline, methanol, color photography, color TV, magnetic tapes, and DDT. Students, teachers, librarians, chemists, or anyone who wants to know more about chemistry's contributions will want this exciting, colorful book.Woodburn, John H. is the author of 'Taking Things Apart and Puttings Things Together' with ISBN 9780841203143 and ISBN 0841203148.