Exploring the scientific principles behind everyday recipes, this informative blend of lab book and cookbook reveals that cooks are actually chemists. Following or modifying recipes is shown to be an experiment with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. This easy-to-follow primer includes recipes that demonstrate the scientific concepts, such as Whipped Creamsicle Topping (a foam), Cherry Dream Cheese (a protein gel), and Lemonade with Chameleon Eggs (an acid indicato...

How much do you really know about how the human body works—how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we're left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States. Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food and the environment, how our brain affects what and how much we eat, and why some diets...

How much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we’re left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States.Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food and the environment, and how our brain affects what and how much we eat, an...

With today's modern technology—LEDs, servomotors, motion sensors, speakers, and more—artwork can incorporate elements of light, sound, and motion for dramatic effects. Author and educator Simon Quellen Field has developed a primer for creative individuals looking for new ways to express themselves though electronically enhanced art. Following step-by-step examples of basic circuitry and programming, readers can develop the skills necessary to enhance their works of art. The book also featu...

In the last few years, research has exploded in the field of longevity. We now have an understanding of most of the mechanisms of aging, giving us a handle on slowing the process, and a pathway to reversing it.Explore the reasons we age, why we age more slowly than most other animals, what goes wrong, and what to do about it. Delve into the latest science and what is in store for the very near future.

When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful microbes. And unlike in a laboratory, you can eat your experiments to verify your hypotheses. In Culinary Reactions, author Simon Quellen Field explores the chemist...

Sam hears voices. They bother him and occasionally scare the daylights out of him.He does not want to go the way of his father, whose delusions ended in suicide.But he can't shake the feeling that the voices are real, and they lead him to a beautiful world of telepathic communion that he finds addictive.But this new world has its own, very real dangers, and Sam is soon caught up in deadly serious trouble.

Wade Bennet was shot in the arm while rescuing the kidnapped daughter of a crime boss.\But that is only the beginning of his problems.The daughter is now missing after maybe shooting her father with a gun taken from the kidnappers Wade killed.At every turn, new evidence brings to light new mysteries, and no one can be trusted.And that is just the beginning of Wade's problems.

When two body dump cases land on his desk, detective Matt London soon finds himself unraveling a web of marijuana growers, dealers, money launderers, and more dead bodies than the county Sheriff's department has ever seen.But none of the shady characters he encounters seem more than peripherally involved in the killings.Are they suspects, or the next victims?

When she's not on the medication that keeps her sane, Raven is highly intelligent.But during one of her lucid periods, she discovers that she is transmitting radio signals from an implanted device in her spine.Is this what causes her symptoms? Who is tracking her? And why?She and her new friends race to find out because the medications are killing her, and she doesn't have a lot of time left.

Sarah is used to waking up in strange places.Her multiple personalities are not aware of one another. But this time is special. She is in a hospital after brain surgery to cure her condition.The personality that checked into the hospital is not Sarah, however, and Sarah learns that in the past seven years, she has married, and then killed her husband in the last few days.She is now in a race to stay ahead of the police while she finds out what her other selves have ...

Alice is trying to work out a series of puzzles her father had left her, which promise to show how he met her mother, who died when Alice was a baby.Alice's father is away in Africa, leaving her with her great-Aunt Hellen alone on the big farm.Alice and her father built treehouses and zip lines together and collected goats, alpacas, and chickens, which Alice takes care of daily.Jamie lives next door with his grandfather and helps Alice figure out the puzzles, as the...