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The World of the Elements

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On the occasion of the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019), we have compiled some book recommendations on this topic:

Person: Stwertka, Albert [Auth.]
Title: A guide to the elements
Edition: 4. ed.
Place: New York, NY
Year:  2018
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Shelf Mark: 40 A 35

Person: Lykknes, Annette [Ed.]. Van Tiggelen, Brigitte [Ed.]
Title: Women in their element : selected women’s contributions to the periodic system
Year: 2019
Publisher: World Scientific
Shelf Mark: 70 K 148

Person: Greenwood, Norman Neill [Auth.]. Earnshaw, A. [Auth.]
Title: Chemistry of the elements
Edition: 2. ed., repr.
Place: Oxford [u.a.]
Year: 2002
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Shelf Mark: 42 A 12

Person: Quadbeck-Seeger, Hans-Juergen [Auth.]
Title: World of the elements : elements of the world
Place: Weinheim
Year: 2007
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527611577

Title:  Chemie der Elemente
Place:  Frankfurt am Main
Year:  2019
Publisher:  Ges. Deutscher Chemiker
Shelf Mark:  40 A 36

Person: Trueb, Lucien F. [Auth.]
Title:  Die chemischen Elemente : ein Streifzug durch das Periodensystem
Edition: 2., ueberarb. und erg. Aufl.
Place: Stuttgart
Year: 2005
Publisher: Hirzel
Shelf Mark: 40 B 23

Person: Quadbeck-Seeger, Hans-Juergen [Auth.]
Title: Die Welt der Elemente : die Elemente der Welt
Place: Weinheim
Year: 2007
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Shelf Mark: 62 G 33

Scientific Writing in English

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There is a book series available on English for Academic Research that includes several topics like academic correspondence, writing research papers, presentations at international conferences and exercises.

You find some more books on the topic in the library:

Person: Mack, Chris A. [Auth.].
Title: How to write a good scientific paper
Place: Bellingham, Wash.
Year: 2018
Shelf Mark: 70 Z 48

Person: Hofmann, Angelika H. [Auth.].
Title: Scientific writing and communication : papers, proposals and presentations
Edition: 2. ed.
Place: New York [u.a.]
Year: 2014
Shelf Mark: 70 Z 42

Person: Lagendijk, Ad [Auth.].
Title: Survival guide for scientists : writing, presentation, email
Place: Amsterdam
Year: 2008
Shelf Mark: 70 Z 29

Person: Peck, John [Auth.]. Coyle, Martin [Auth.].
Title: The student’s guide to writing : spelling, punctuation and grammar
Edition: 3. ed.
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Shelf Mark: 70 Z 41

Person: Strunk, William [Auth.]. White, E. B. [Auth.].
Title: The elements of style
Edition: 50th Anniversary ed.
Place: New York [u.a.]
Year: 2009
Shelf Mark: 70 Z 32

See also: New App: Academic Writing in English

New E-Book: 100 Years of Chemical Warfare

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Now available online:

Friedrich, Bretislav [Ed.]. Hoffmann, Dieter [Ed.]. Renn, Juergen [Ed.]. Schmaltz, Florian [Ed.]. Wolf, Martin [Ed.]: One hundred years of chemical warfare : research, deployment, consequences. Springer : Cham, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-319-51664-6 [Open Access]

This book has emerged from a conference commemorating the centenary of the events at Ypres (the first use of chemical weapons as weapons of mass destruction), held at the Fritz Haber Institute in 2015.