Molecules
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Philip Ball.
Contributors: Ball, Philip, 1962-
Series: Very short introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Molecules -- Popular works; Chemistry -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Description: "The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, previously published as Stories of the Invisible. Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow into a multicelled Mozart, what makes a spider's silk insoluble in the morning dew, and how this molecular dynamism is being captured in the laboratory, promising to reinvent chemistry as the central creative science of the century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161) and index.
First published as: Stories of the invisible, 2001.