title: Physical Chemistry: Understanding our Chemical World
author:  Paul M. S. Monk 
description: "a physical chemistry textbook that is interesting, easy toread, and makes the subject comprehensible is overdue[thisbook] achieves this goal and does so quire well." (<i>Journal ofChemical Education</i>, May 2006)
zlib_text: Visions of the Future: Chemistry and Life Science
  Leading young scientists, m any holding prestigious Royal Society
  Research Fellowships, describe their research and give their visions of the
  future. The articles, which have been re-written in a popular and well-
  illustrated style, are derived from  scholarly and authoritative papers pub-
  lished in a special Millennium  Issue of the Royal Society’s Philosophical
  Transactions (used by N ewton; this is the world’s longest-running scien-
  tiﬁc journal). The topics, which were carefully selected by the journal’s
  editor, Professor J. M. T. Thom pson FRS, include studies of atom s and m ol-
  ecules in m otion; new processes and m aterials; nature’s secrets of biologi-
  cal growth and form ; progress in understanding the hum an body and m ind.
  The book conveys the excitem ent and enthusiasm  of the young authors for
  their work in chem istry and life science. Two com panion books cover
  astronom y and earth science, and physics and electronics. Al