Chemistry: Books & E-Books

Includes a variety of reference sources. Links within CREDO allow the user to access "Oxford Reference Online", "GALE Reference", and the Lewis Library Catalog.

This web version of McGraw-Hill's authoritative, print multi-volume counterpart includes: McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, weekly news articles, research updates, comprehensive & current science biographies, study guides, & web sites.

Useful for biography of scientists, but also goes in to details about their work.

This book is a part of Oxford Reference Online's collection of Biological Sciences titles.

Addressing the Millennial Student in Undergraduate Chemistry explores inventive pedagogies in chemistry classrooms that build upon the millennial students' strengths and interests. With contributions from veteran educators, this volume promises to be a valuable resource for college professors and high school science teachers.

With his typical clarity and hardly a formula in sight, Peter Atkins' Very Short Introduction explores the contributions physical chemistry has made to all branches of chemistry.

Historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century.

data from the NIST Thermodynamics Research Center.

A newer edition of this reference source is available online through the link in 'Electronic Reference' below.

Useful for biography of scientists, but also goes in to details about their work.

High-pressure materials research has been revolutionized in the past few years due to technological breakthroughs in the diamond anvil cell (DAC), shock wave compression and molecular dynamic simulation (MD) methods.

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of macromolecular chemistry.

"This text provides insight into the chemical and biochemical technologies that are being studied, optimized, and eventually developed to promote environmental sustainability".