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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History Paperback - 2004
by Penny Le Couteur; Jay Burreson
With lively prose and an eye for colorful and unusual details, Le Couteur and Burreson offer a novel way to understand the shaping of civilization and the workings of our contemporary world.
Summary
Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand feats of engineering and spurred advances in medicine and law; they determined what we now eat, drink, and wear. A change as small as the position of an atom can lead to enormous alterations in the properties of a substance-which, in turn, can result in great historical shifts.
With lively prose and an eye for colorful and unusual details, Le Couteur and Burreson offer a novel way to understand the shaping of civilization and the workings of our contemporary world.
With lively prose and an eye for colorful and unusual details, Le Couteur and Burreson offer a novel way to understand the shaping of civilization and the workings of our contemporary world.
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CHRISTOS E. ESPICIARIAS!-for Christ and spices-was the jubilant cry from Vasco da Gama's sailors as, in May 1498, they approached India and the goal of gaining untold wealth from spices that for centuries had been the monopoly of the merchants of Venice.
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- Title Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
- Author Penny Le Couteur; Jay Burreson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, New York
- Date May 24, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781585423316 / 1585423319
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1340
- Library of Congress subjects Chemistry, Chemistry - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004045987
- Dewey Decimal Code 540
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"Well-conceived,well-done popular science." Booklist
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- Science, 06/05/2009, Page 1269
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