Chemistry

1. Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything

The author describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This title is about his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.

1. Natalie Whittle

Crunch

Natalie Whittle is a writer and editor based in Glasgow. Born and raised in South Wales, she read English Literature at University College London, and lived in Paris for three years working as a Time Out Paris journalist. She worked for 15 years at the Financial Times in London, where she held editing roles across the magazine and arts sections of FT Weekend. As the FT's food and drink editor, she won an award from the Guild of Food Writers in 2015 and also collaborated with Penguin Random House to produce a compilation of the FT's gastronomic interviews, 'Lunch with the FT: A Second Helping' in 2019.

Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting

1. Patrick Chiu

A History of Western Pharmacy in China

Throughout his career, Patrick has worked in various sectors of pharmacy, including community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy. He has held senior leadership positions with global biotech and health care companies and NGOs, such as BD, Chi Heng Foundation, Monsanto, Molnlycke Health Care, Nature's Bounty, and Roche, primarily in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region. Since 2000, Patrick has dedicated himself to independent research in the history of exotic elements of materia medica including hulu originating from the ancient Silk Roads. Over the past decade, he has focused on scholarly research concerning Western pharmacy in China's treaty ports and Colonial Hong Kong. His sixth book “A History of Western Pharmacy in China” is now launched by Springer Nature in January 2024. Inspired by the seminal work of KC Wong and Wu Lien-Teh's "Chinese History of Medicine," which was published ninety years ago in 1933, Patrick is currently engaged in a collaborative effort with academics and practitioners from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas. Together, they are working on a five-volume series titled "Chinese History of Pharmacy: From Shennong to Tu Youyou". The series aims to provide a comprehensive account of the evolution and development of pharmacy in China throughout history. The anticipated release of this significant series is scheduled to take place online, commencing in the second half of 2024. With contributions from experts across different regions and backgrounds, this ambitious project promises to shed light on the rich and diverse heritage of Chinese pharmacy, offering valuable insights into its ancient origins and contemporary advancements. Patrick is the founder and president of the Hong Kong Society for the History of Pharmacy. He is a regular contributor to the Pharmaceutical Historian and serves as a senior non-resident fellow at Shanghai University. 

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Explores the birth of modern chemistry in the period from 1815-1914, looking at the elaboration of atomic theory, the growth of the chemical industry, new instruments and practices, the chemical laboratory, and the discovery of radioactivity.

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a "chemical revolution" from 1700-1815.