Book and Media Recommendations: Food for Thought, Starting with Cheese

• Cheryl Baldwin Frech ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Central Oklahoma

     University of Central Oklahoma

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 92, Nº 7, 2015, págs. 1137-1139
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This commentary offers reading recommendations for five books. The Science of Cheese by Michael Tunick is a comprehensive look at the components of a favorite food. The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements by Paul Parsons and Gail Dixon is a basic book about the periodic table to add to your collection. Andy Weir’s The Martian is a fictional account of a stranded astronaut’s ingenious efforts to survive and be rescued from Mars. In The Girls of Atomic City, we are introduced to some of the unknown workers who contributed to the making of the atomic bomb in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A Mind for Numbers: How To Excel at Math and Science is recommended for anyone struggling to learn how to learn.