Abstract
Summer is a good time for reading. The longer days and the fact that many of us take vacation offer the opportunity to catch up on the list of books that have accumulated on our desks, shelves, and electronic readers. Last week, I mentioned two books that would make great additions to your reading list: Nose Dive by Harold McGee and The Joy of Sweat by Sarah Everts. Another book that made it to the pile on my desk is The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Disease and Famine, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth by Frank A. von Hippel. The author—a professor of ecotoxicology at Northern Arizona University (NAU)—wanted “the reader to achieve a better understanding of why we are where we are in terms of food security, disease outbreaks, chemical warfare and the environmental movement,” according to NAU’s Research News . As such, the book
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