Providing an overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing and applications of commercially available plastics materials, this book includes chapters on material selection and special polymers.

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Human hair is the subject of a remarkably wide range of scientific investigations, and the third edition of this book confirms its position as the definitive monograph on the subject.

Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world’s most influential commodity.

Baruch Sterman brilliantly recounts the complete, amazing story of this sacred dye that changed the color of history.

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The technical content of the book describes significant new phenolic resin chemistry, transformations and recent mechanistic pathways of resole and novolak cure.

The text intends to survey the whole field of macromolecular science. Its organization results from the following considerations.

Publisher description: This book examines fibers generated entirely from chemicals.

A concise introductory text written from an applied angle, primarily for recent graduates now working in industry who haven't previously studied polymer chemistry.