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

     

  • Sigrid Peyerimhoff: Ab Initio - a life for quantum chemistry (Life's work in chemistry), ISBN 978-3-86225-138-4.
  • New Objectivity. A Centenary. Catalog for the exhibition at the Mannheim Kunsthalle. Johan Holten, Inge Herold (eds.), Deutscher Kunstverlag 2024. ISBN-13, ‎978-3422802506.
  • Maja Göpel, Hannes Androsch: Values. A Compass for the Future. Brandstätter Verlag, 2025. ISBN 978-3-7106-0831-5.
  • Bernhard Pörksen: Listening - The Art of Opening Oneself to the World. Hanser-Literaturverlage, 2025, ISBN 978-3-446-28138-7.
  • Oliver Schlaudt: "Trashed - A Garbage Philosophy Journey Through Germany." CH Beck Verlag 2024. ISBN 978-3-406-81464-8.
  • Frank Petersen: The Mystery in the Rye - Ergot and LSD, a Historical Search for Clues. Springer 2024, ISBN 978-3-662-69507-4.
  • Jörg Senn-Bilfinger: Stomach in Happiness - Pantoprazole: Small Molecule, Big Effect. The author is a member of the SEC. Novum-Verlag 2024, ISBN 978-3-948379-89-6.
  • Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus: Burning for Science. 'Lives in Chemistry' series. January 2025, ISBN 978-3-86225-137-7.
  • Martin Wikelski: The Internet of Animals: What We Can Learn from Life's Swarm Intelligence. Greystone Books 2024, ISBN 978-1-77164-959-9.
  • Katharina Wermke: Baby Songs: How Crying Becomes Language. Molden Verlag 2024, hardcover with audio samples. ISBN 978-3-222-15122-4.
  • Jens Bott: What We Should Know About the World. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2024, ISBN 978-3-527-35361-3
  • Günther Klar, Armin Reller: The Emergence of Chemistry: Phenomena and Concepts. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2023, ISBN 978-3-527-84402-9.
  • Peter Atkins: Concepts in Physical Chemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry, London 2024, ISBN978-1-83767-386-5. The individual keywords of this well-known textbook can be downloaded free of charge: Peter Atkins: Concepts.
  • Bernhard Sabel: Fake Mafia in Science - AI, Greed, and Fraud in Research. Kohlhammer Sachbuch, 2024, ISBN 978-3-17-045557-3
  • Patrick Cramer: Future Worlds — My Journey to the Science of Tomorrow. Patrick Cramer visited the 84 institutes of the Max Planck Society before assuming 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 in the Spirit of Omission. Suhrkamp 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 9783803137258 (review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 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, except himself”, Verlag Herder 2023, ISBN 978-3-451-39216-0.
  • Kathryn Harkup: “The Secret Life of the Elements”, Laurence King Publishing, 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. A novel about artificial intelligence from the unusual perspective of a Nobel Prize winner.
  • Robert Menasse: The Expansion. Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-43080-4. Easter reading: the sequel 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, 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/ 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, CH Beck Publishing 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-80767-1.

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