SEC Book Corner

SEC Book Corner

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

     

  • Patrick Cramer: Future Worlds - My Journey to the Science of Tomorrow. Patrick Cramer visited the 84 institutes of the Max Planck Society before taking over its Chair . Publisher: S. Fischer, ISBN: 978-3-10-397548-2.
  • Florence Hazrat: The exclamation mark. a rebellious story. HarperCollins Publishing Group, Hamburg 2024 ISBN 9783365004883.
  • Hubert Schmidbaur: From Chemical Craft-smanship to the Art of Gilding Atoms. GNT-Verlag, Diepholz, 2024. ISBN 978-3-86225-134-6.
  • Philipp Lepenies: Prohibition and Renunciation - Politics from the Spirit of Omission. Suhr-kamp-Verlag, 2022. ISBN 978-3-518-12787-2.
  • Robert Menasse: The world of tomorrow - A sovereign democratic Europe and its enemies. Suhrkamp-Verlag 2024, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-518-43165-8. A polemic for the European peace project.
  • Michel Pastoureau: All our colors. A dazzling cultural history. Translated from the French by Andreas Jandel, Klaus Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978380313725 8 (review in the FAZ of September 6, 2023).
  • Voices of the Century 1945-2000 - German history in over 400 original recordings. Edited by Hans Sarkowicz, Ulrich Herbert, Michael Krüger, Ines Geipel and Christiane Collorio. Der Hörverlag, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-8445-4902-7.
  • 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.” Lives 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.
  • 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 Images 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 31.03.23.
  • 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/ Lives 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; Verlag CH Beck, Munich).
  • Katalin Kariko “Breaking Through - My Life in Science”, 2023 Crown/Penguin Random House, NY, ISBN: 9781847928252.
  • For all those interested in public discussions: Glossary of Public Speaking by Armin Nassehi, Verlag CH Beck 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-80767-1.

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