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Short reads
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my list
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My Mystery and Detective Books
by Linda A. Rodriguez346 items Last modified May 26, 2019 -
Mysteries
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Asimov
by zsak12 items Last modified January 16, 2019 -
Isaac Asimov
by Linda Freespace76 items Last modified October 27, 2018 -
Mysteries
by Krista Elaine Hartman761 items Last modified September 22, 2018 -
To read
by mompea701 items Last modified May 9, 2018 -
Look at these books
by Michael Stewart15 items Last modified October 3, 2016This is another in the series of Abelard-Schuman science juveniles, and, like the others, is a book which I have always enjoyed from the days I first read it as a teenager.
Here Asimov gives us a quick overview of some of the major chemicals and families of chemicals made up solely of carbon (hence the title), hydrogen, and oxygen. As such, it is somewhat the equivalent of Building Blocks of the Universe, here centered on organic chemistry.
The book may be slightly overladen with footnotes, as Asimov stops to explain as much as possible—a habit he describes, by the way, in “The Sound of Panting” in Only a Trillion—but the overall tone remains light and clear, the book runs smoothly, and at its end the reader is left with a reasonably good grasp of some of the basics of the structure of organic compounds. It shows its age here and there, but remains nonetheless worthwhile for the non-chemist who wants to get some idea of how organic chemistry works.
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My Mystery Novels
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eBooks to Borrow
by Sunny Jackson669 items Last modified May 13, 2014mostly speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, cyberpunk, time travel, alternate reality), all of which can be borrowed as an eBook.
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eBooks to Borrow
by Sunny Jackson669 items Last modified May 13, 2014mostly speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, cyberpunk, time travel, alternate reality), all of which can be borrowed as an eBook.
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Want to Read
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Want to Read
by Steve Strange4 items Last modified August 19, 2013
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