Chemical Engineering Books

Toxic Legacy
by Stephanie Seneff
Review
The Probiotic Planet
by Jamie Lorimer
Review
The Code Breaker
by Walter Isaacson
Review
Editing Humanity
by Kevin Davies
Review
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
by Paul Farmer
Review
A Series of Fortunate Events
by Sean B Carroll
Review
Waters of the World
by Sarah Dry
Review
Lights Out
by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
Review
Beyond the Tape
by Marie Cassidy
Review
Expedition Deep Ocean
by Josh Young
Review
The Genesis Quest
by Michael Marshall
Review
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells
by Harold McGee
Review
Sticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
by Professor Steven Abbott
Review
A Dominant Character
by Samanth Subramanian
Review
Clean: The New Science of Skin
by James Hamblin
Review
Covid-19
by Debora MacKenzie
Review
Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
by Kat Arney
Review
Catching the Worm
by William C. Campbell
Review
Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
by Debora L. Spar
Review
The Great Secret
by Jennet Conant
Review
Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis
by Erin Brockovich
Review
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human
by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield
Review
The Age of Genomes
by Jon Luoma, Steven Monroe Lipkin
Review
Successful Aging
by Daniel J. Levitin
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
Outbreaks and Epidemics
by Meera Senthilingam
Review
Sex Matters
by Alyson J. McGregor
Review
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
by Muhammad H. Zaman
Review
When Blood Breaks Down
by Mikkael A. Sekeres
Review
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Review
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
Review
Epidemics and Society
by Frank M. Snowden
Review
Entangled Life
by Merlin Sheldrake
Review
The Ocean Reader
by Eric Paul Roorda
Review
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
by Thane Gustafson
Review
Some Assembly Required
by Neil Shubin
Review
Pharma
by Gerald Posner
Review
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
by Libby Copeland
Review
The Angel and the Assassin
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Review
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes
by Marilyn Roossinck
Review
Nano Comes to Life
by Sonia Contera
Review
The Rules of Contagion
by Adam Kucharski
Review
Immortality, Inc
by Chip Walter
Review
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
by Anthony Ryan Hatch
Review
Chasing the Invisible
by Thomas Grogan MD
Review
Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race
by Gavin Evans
Review
Cook, Taste, Learn: How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking
by Guy Crosby
Review
Transcendence
by Gaia Vince
Review
Insane Mode
by Hamish McKenzie
Review
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
by Callum Roberts
Review
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic
by Matt McCarthy
Review
Miracle Cure
by William Rosen
Review
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow
Review
Superior: The Return of Race Science
by Angela Saini
Review
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
Review
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
by Azra Raza
Review
Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
by Kate Pickert
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
The Remarkable Life of the Skin
by Monty Lyman
Review
Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
by Peter A. Shulman
Review
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic
by Mike Jay
Review
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
Review
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
by Bill Streever
Review
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
by Walter Brown
Review
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
by Richard Preston
Review
Can Science Make Sense of Life?
by Sheila Jasanoff
Review
The Science of Breaking Bad
by Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age
by Sue Armstrong
Review
Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products
by Julia L. F. Goldstein
Review
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
by Dahr Jamail
Review
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by Mark Arax
Review
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
by Mark Honigsbaum
Review
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by Chris McGreal
Review
Power Trip: The Story of Energy
by Michael E. Webber
Review
How to Build a Human
by Philip Ball
Review
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Genetic Drug Book
by Katherine Eban
Review
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga
by Laura Watts
Review
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
by Jamie Metzl
Review
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by Thomas Hager
Review
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
by Simon Pirani
Review
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by Rob Dunn
Review
The Re-Origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals
by Torill Kornfeldt
Review
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
by Paul Steinhardt
Review
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
by Paul Davies
Review
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
by Charles Graeber
Review
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
by Stefano Mancuso
Review
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
by Venki Ramakrishnan
Review
Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
by Dr Jeremy Brown
Review
Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
by Steven Ujifusa
Review
Flexible Glass: Enabling Thin, Lightweight, and Flexible Electronics (Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Coatings Technology)
by Sean M. Garner
Review
The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
by Adam Rutherford
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
by Thomas J. Bollyky
Review
Life on Earth
by David Attenborough
Review
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson
Review
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
by Deborah Blum
Review
Between Hope and Fear – A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
by Michael Kinch
Review
Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food
by Nicola Temple
Review
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by Anna Clark
Review
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
Review
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
by Lauren Slater
Review
The Many Lives of Carbon
by Dag Olav Hessen
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
by Kate Cole-Adams
Review
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by Daniel Raimi
Review
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
by Henry Jay Przybylo
Review
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by Juli Berwald
Review
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
by Catherine Carver
Review
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
by Jennifer A Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
Fuel Cells
by Paul Breeze
Review
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by Chris Goodall
Review
Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Second Edition
by Larry R. Dalton, Sam-Shajing Sun
Review
Network Science
by Albert-László Barabási
Review

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