Mark A Griep, Marjorie L Mikasen

ReAction!

Chemistry in the Movies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies gives a scientist's and artist's response to the dark and bright sides of chemistry found in 140 films, most of them contemporary Hollywood feature films but also from a few others. This book explores the two movie faces of this supposedly neutral science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 727g
• ISBN-13: 9780195326925
• ISBN-10: 019532692X
• Artikelnr.: 26984989

Autorenporträt

Mark Griep is a chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who is searching for new antibiotics and who recently received a College Distinguished Teaching Award. Marjorie Mikasen is a Geometric painter, who recently received an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. Her work is in public and private collections. The authors are married and were awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant in the area of Public Understanding of Science to do the research for this book.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Dr. Jekyll's Mysterious Transformative Formula
* 2. Invisibility Steals the Seen: Chemistry Creates Criminal
Opportunities
* 3. Isomorphs of Paranoia: Chemical Arsenals
* 4. Bad Company: The Business of Toxicity
* 5. A Master/Slave Narrative: Drug Addiction and Psychoactives
* 6. Inventors and their Often Wacky Chemical Inventions
* 7. Hard Science = Hard Evidence: Forensic Chemistry and Chemical
Detectives
* 8. Chem 101: Learning by Doing
* 9. Good News: Research and Medicinal Chemists Making a Difference
* 10. First, Do No Harm (but Before that Self-Experiment
* Conclusion: Chemistry in the Movies
* Appendix 1
* Appendix 2
* References
* Index