We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its development over past centuries, it grew and advanced through the efforts of individuals and the institutions they created. As Director of the Royal Institution and its Davy Faraday Research Laboratory throughout the 1990s, the author had a unique vantage point to observe how places and people condition the way science has been shaped in the past and continues to be today. The author's background as a practicing solid state chemist, with a lively...
We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its develop...
Over the years, there has been a growth in a field of condensed matter science: materials chemistry. Transcending the traditional boundaries of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry, this approach aims to create new molecular and lattice ensembles with unusual physical properties. This book presents a selection of articles on this topic.
Over the years, there has been a growth in a field of condensed matter science: materials chemistry. Transcending the traditional boundaries of organi...
Research on the interactions of plants and phytopathogenic fungi has become one of the most interesting and rapidly moving fields in the plant sciences, the findings of which have contributed tremendously to the development of new strategies of plant protection. This book offers insight into the state of present knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on recognition phenomena between plants and fungi, parasitization strategies employed by the phytopathogenic fungi, the action of phytotoxins, the compatibility of pathogens with host plants and the basic resistance of non-host plants as well as...
Research on the interactions of plants and phytopathogenic fungi has become one of the most interesting and rapidly moving fields in the plant science...
This book provides an intimate look into Day's personal life as well as essential background for understanding the Catholic Worker movement, which she founded.
Day - now a candidate for beatification - is one of the most appealing of modern religious leaders. Here she reflects on the social and moral concerns of her day in the light of her faith in Christ and her experience of living the Gospel: the disenfranchised poor, the benefits of meaningful work, the significance of the family, the dangers of increasing commercialisation and secularism, the decline of moral standards, and the...
This book provides an intimate look into Day's personal life as well as essential background for understanding the Catholic Worker movement, which ...
