Title:
Molecules : a very short introduction / Philip Ball.
Author:
Ball, Philip, 1962-
Ball, Philip, 1962- Stories of the invisible.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
Call Number:
QD461 .B227 2003
Abstract:
"The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, previously published as Stories of the Invisible. Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into a multicelled Mozart, what makes a spider's silk insoluble in the morning dew, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2004297610-d.htmlTable of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2004297610-t.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2004297610-b.html
ISBN:
9780192854308
Series:
Very short introductions
Very short introductions.
Physical Description:
170 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
General Note:
First published as: Stories of the invisible, 2001.
Contents:
Engineers of the invisible: making molecules -- Vital signs: the molecules of life -- Take the strain: materials from molecules -- The burning issue: molecules and energy -- Good little movers: molecular motors -- Delivering the message: molecular communication -- The chemical computer: molecular information.
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