SEC Book Corner

In the SEC Book Corner, SEC members exchange particularly recommended books that they have read. If you would like to recommend books for our book corner, please contact Wolfgang Gerhartz.

 

• Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun. Blessing-Verlag, ISBN 978 389 6677 396. Novel about artificial intelligence from an unusual perspective by a Nobel Prize winner.
• Robert Menasse: The expansion. Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-43080-4. Easter reading: the follow-up novel to “The Capital.”
• Franz Effenberger: From aromatics and heterocycles to bio- and nanotechnology, series Life Pictures in Chemistry (LiC), GNT-Verlag, ISBN 978 3 86225 130 8.
• Sidharta Mukherjee: The Song of the Cell. Ullstein, ISBN 9783550201899. Euphoric review in FAZ from March 31, 2023.
• Bonnie Garmus: A question of chemistry. Pieper Verlag, €22.00,EAN 978-3-492-07109-3.
• Peter Sloterdijk: The Repentance of Prometheus, Suhrkamp-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-02985-5.
• Horst Kessler: NMR: My compass in organic and medicinal chemistry..." In the series "Lives in Chemistry/Life's Achievements in Chemistry" ISBN 978-3-86225-132-2.
• Wolfgang Beck: The history of chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GNT-Verlag, Diepholz, ISBN 978-3-86225-141-4.
• Ewald Frie “A farm and eleven siblings” (ISBN 978-3-406-79717-0; CH Beck publishing house, Munich).
• Katalin Kariko “Breaking Through - My Life in Science”, 2023 Crown/Penguin Random House, NY, ISBN: 9781847928252.
• For everyone who is interested in public discussions: Glossary of public speech by Armin Nassehi, Verlag CH Beck 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-80767-1.
• Ulrich Chaussy: “Arthur Eichengrün - The man who could invent everything but himself”, Verlag Herder 2023, ISBN 978-3-451-39216-0.
• Kathryn Harkup: “The Secret Life of the Elements”, Laurence King Verlag, 2022, ISBN978-3-451-39216-0.
• Larry E Overmans: “Designing Synthetic Methods and Natural Products.” Life's Achievements in Chemistry", 2024, ISBN 978-3-86225-133-9.
• Florian Illies: Magic of Silence (Caspar David Friedrich's Journey through Time), S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-397252-8.