Books & Authors

Magazine articles on books and authors.

Old Articles: <Older 3651-3660 Newer>

Chemistry World October 15, 2012 John Hayward	Oxidizing agents Oxidation in Organic Synthesis by V.K .Ahluwalia contains an extensive list of reagents and is of some interest as a reference resource, particularly with respect to some of the more exotic reagents.
Chemistry World October 11, 2012 Duncan Burns	Food contamination Case Studies in Food Safety and Authenticity edited by Jeffrey Hoorfar provides insights into problems for a variety of food products and details some interesting examples of recent applications of analytical chemistry in the protection of the public.
Chemistry World October 9, 2012 Paul Fennell	Carbon capture Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon by Peter Cook, is an excellent introduction to many topics in the field of climate change, with a particular focus on carbon capture and storage technologies.
HBS Working Knowledge October 8, 2012 Julia Hanna	The Immigrants Who Built America's Financial System In The Founders and Finance, Harvard Business School business historian Thomas McCraw lays out in fascinating detail how immigrants Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin became essential to the nation's survival.
Financial Advisor October 2012 Evan Simonoff	The Significance Of Your Other A new book by Nick and Joan Murray seeks to empower advisors' life partners. It's called Talking It Over Just the Two of Us: A Guide for the Financial Advisor's Life Partner.
HBS Working Knowledge October 3, 2012 James Heskett	Can We Bring Back the "Industrial Commons" for Manufacturing? A new book, Producing Prosperity, by Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, argues that a manufacturing renaissance is critical to the process-oriented innovation that has contributed to the worldwide dominance of the US economy.
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Bruce Alexander	Inorganic redox processes Inorganic Electrochemistry: Theory, Practice and Application by Zanello, de Biani, and Nervi succeeds in doing exactly what the authors intend; that is to provide a useful guide to researchers wishing to investigate redox processes of compounds containing transition metals.
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Christopher Castleton	Semiconductor doping Until now there has been a rather thin selection of graduate level primers focused on properties and characterization methods for semiconductor point defects. Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors by McCluskey and Haller fills it nicely.
HBS Working Knowledge September 19, 2012 Carmen Nobel	Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong? Many companies are at a loss about how to fund innovation successfully. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation, Professor Josh Lerner starts with this advice: get the incentives right.
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Mike Pitts	Corporate social responsibility Sustainability in the Chemical Industry by Eric Johnson, is a study of the corporate social responsibility approaches used by the world's largest chemical companies (29 of them).
<Older 3651-3660 Newer> Return to current articles.