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Chemistry World March 20, 2014 Victoria Druce	Rocket girl: the story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's first female rocket scientist Rocket girl is a book about discovery: the discoveries of Mary Sherman Morgan; the discovery of space; and the author's discovery of a woman shrouded in obscurity -- the mother he barely knew.
HBS Working Knowledge April 7, 2014 Michael Blanding	Negotiation and All That Jazz In his new book The Art of Negotiation, Michael Wheeler throws away the script to examine how master negotiators really get what they want.
Lucire April 4, 2014	The Crimson Garter, Chapter 12 Here is the most packed chapter to date in our serialization of The Crimson Garter, by Lucire travel editor Stanley Moss, writing pseudo-nymously as Lovejoy
Registered Rep. April 2, 2014 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: April 2014 Larry Doyle's recent book, In Bed With Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy, elevates and sharpens the case against Wall Street's model of self-regulation.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Philip Blower	Life atomic: a history of radioisotopes in science and medicine As a career chemist in the field of radioisotopes in medicine, I admit to a faint pride that an academic historian should trouble to chart the origins of my profession in such depth.
Lucire March 28, 2014	The Crimson Garter, Chapter 11 Travel editor, Stanley Moss, writes pseudonymously as Lovejoy, and presents Chapter 11 of the Crimson Garter.
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Melanie Britton	Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI This book, written by Lauterbur's wife, Joan Dawson, is an interesting and often touching account of his life and of the discovery and development of MRI.
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 Karin Ruhlandt	Encyclopedia of the alkaline earth compounds This book provides an extensive overview of inorganic alkaline earth compounds. It is a massive tour de force, summarizing on over 1000 pages the wide variety of alkaline earth metal inorganic species.
HBS Working Knowledge March 25, 2014 Michael Blanding	Can China's Economic System Overcome its Political System? It's fashionable to be bullish on China. But the new book "Can China Lead?" urges a more cautious view on the prospects of the country, where government bureaucracy stifles innovation.
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 Ricardo Grau-Crespo	Introduction to computational materials science This book by Richard LeSar attempts to summarize the basics and the current state of the whole field within a single, and not very lengthy, volume. It does so very successfully.
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