The Chemistry Book

I wanted to mention to readers here that I've agreed to write a book (for a general audience) on chemistry for Sterling Publishers (the publishing arm of Barnes and Noble). They've been putting out a series of books (Sterling Milestones) on various scientific topics, looking at 250 key concepts or historical events. There's a short essay on each of these, and an illustration on the facing page. Clifford Pickover did The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book for them, and recently they've published The Drug Book, The Space Book, and The Psychology Book as well. So I'm doing The Chemistry Book, which occupies me on my train rides home after work and after dinner - my wife and kids have been involuntarily roped in as the test audience for the entries. The book itself won't be out for a while - I'm delivering the manuscript next spring, and there will surely be a lot of editorial work after that. I have over 200 of the short chapters outlined so far, but I'm leaving some room for more topics as they occur to me (and as the chapters I'm writing suggest - sometimes I find that I have to include another topic to make the one I'm working on make sense to the eventual readers). I don't want to give away the complete list of chapters just yet, not least because it's still changing around, but I would like to solicit nominations for events and ideas that anyone thinks I should be sure to cover. The book spans the whole historical record, up to the present day, in all field...
Source: In the Pipeline - Category: Chemists Tags: Book Recommendations Source Type: blogs