Un mundo sin invierno

Este es un libro para los que se inician en la investigación, que en un solo volumen, relativamente pequeño, hace un estudio de los métodos experimentales de tipo general, que han demostrado ser particularmente útiles en el campo de la Química inorgánica.

Esta curiosa obra pone en relación dos materias aparentemente contrapuestas: la mitología y el estudio del mundo natural. En este caso el autor pone en nuestro conocimiento las leyendas que tienen que ver con las plantas, como sería el caso de la manzana en su relación con Adán y Eva en la Biblia.

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.