Cover 4

Cathedrals of Science

Cathedrals of Science

The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

By
Patrick Coffey
Patrick Coffey
2008

List

283 books

Science

starthistle1
Steven Rongley
Domesticated
The Disappearing Spoon
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Privileged Planet : How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution

List

1,023 books

History

starthistle1
Steven Rongley
Medieval Medicine
The Conquering Tide
Grant
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Deutschland einig Vaterland

List

4 books

Science Chemistry

starthistle1
Steven Rongley
What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things

List

106 books

Biographies Autobiographies

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
Not My Father's Son
Join Me
Spinster
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
H is for Hawk

List

389 books

Non Fiction

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
Christopher and His Kind
Every Song Ever
The Talent Code
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography

List

58 books

Science

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
I Am Legend
The Disappearing Spoon
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Periodic Tales

List

32 books

Science

sonya_
Sonya
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Acid Test
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer