Czech-born Jacqueline Groag (1903-1985) was an incredibly adept textile designer who trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna during the 1920s under Franz Cisek and Josef Hoffmann. She produced textile designs for the Wiener Werkstatte and some of the Parisian fashion houses while she lived in Vienna. She married the architect and interior designer Jacques Groag - they made a successful team. However, in 1939 they were compelled to emigrate to the UK. Jacqueline Groag continued to produce textile design work for the British market, and after the war her designs could be seen at numerous outlets such as David Whitehead, Grafton, John Lewis and Liberty. For more than 20 years she worked as a freelance designer, supplying designs for carpets, greetings cards, laminates, plastics, textiles, wallpapers and wrapping papers to many firms including Bond-Worth Carpets, British European Airways, the British Overseas Airways Corporation, Dunlop, ICI and London Transport. In 1984 she became a Fellow of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. She was a prodigious and successful designer to the end of her life. Along with Lucienne Day and Marian Mahler she is seen as central to a new and exciting development in textile design in the 1950s. Together their work is featured in a major exhibition 'Designing Women' which begins in Colorado Springs in September 2008. This is a ground breaking publication on the work of this highly important and influential designer.

Helping students make sense of evolution This bestselling text gives students a less rigorous, less mathematical way of learning inorganic chemistry, using the periodic table as a context for exploring chemical properties and uncovering relationships between elements in different groups. The authors help students understand the relevance of the subject to their lives by covering both the historical development and fascinating contemporary applications of inorganic chemistry (especially in regard to industrial processes and environmental issues). The new edition offers new study tools, expanded coverage of biological applications, and new help with problem-solving. This edition of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry is now supported in Achieve Essentials, Macmillan's new online learning platform. Achieve Essentials gives students access to online resources to complete assignments, engage with course materials, prepare for exams and more in order to succeed in class.

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the founding of this unique Institution, and the individuals whose lives came together to make it happen: Sophia Jex-Blake; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Edith Pechey; and Isabel Thorne. The London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) was the first School in Britain to enable women to gain medical qualifications. Though its pioneering medical role is beginning to be recognized, the Chemistry Department at the School has been totally overlooked. All first-year students at the LSMW had to spend a significant portion of their time taking theoretical and practical chemistry, taught by dedicated women chemistry instructors. In this book, particular attention is given to each of these exceptionally-talented women chemists who found a haven at, and devoted their lives to, the LSMW. This book also covers the enthusiasm of the women medical students which becomes evident through the chemistry prose and poetry which they wrote. This book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the early role of women in science, and it is particularly relevant to those interested in the lives and contributions of pioneering women chemists.

Das erfolgreiche Grundlagenlehrbuch jetzt in durchgehend uberarbeiteter Neuauflage Die viel gelobte Einfuhrung in die Allgemeine und Anorganische Chemie ist fur die 3. Auflage vollstandig uberarbeitet und aktualisiert worden. Das erweiterte Autorenteam - Michael Binnewies, Maik Finze, Manfred Jackel, Peer Schmidt und Helge Willner - hat zahlreiche neue Inhalte eingearbeitet und den Text an anderen Stellen gestrafft, um das Lehrbuch wieder optimal auf die Bedurfnisse der Chemiestudierenden im Haupt- und Nebenfach zuzuschneiden. Es besticht weiterhin durch die ausgewogene und klare Stoffdarstellung sowie die vielen Einblicke in hochaktuelle Themen und Anwendungen. Die Beschreibung grosstechnischer Verfahren ist ebenso auf den neuesten Stand gebracht worden wie die Diskussion der zunhmend wichtiger werdenden seltenen Elemente. Rohstoffe fur Zukunftstechnologien, Schweissen und Loeten, Magnetwerkstoffe und Warmespeicher sind Themen neuer Exkurse. Kurze Zusammenfassungen an den Kapitelenden werden den Lernenden die Prufungsvorbereitungen erleichtern. Setzt neue Massstabe in der Grundausbildung angehender Chemiker. Wird sich fur Studierende in Diplom- und Bachelor-Studiengangen rasch als unentbehrlicher Begleiter durch die ersten Semester erweisen - und vielfach auch daruber hinaus. Schweizerische Laboratoriums-Zeitschrift Vorteilhaft ist die gute Einbindung der Praktikumsinhalte des Grundstudiums. Angenehm lesen sich die Exkurse, welche die allgemeinen Lehrinhalte des Buches um Themen wie "Untersuchungsmethoden" oder "Chemie in Natur, Alltag und Technik" geschickt erganzen. Hilfreich sind die eingebundenen UEbungsaufgaben am Ende der Kapitel. Nachrichten aus der Chemie Abgerundete Darstellung der Allgemeinen und Anorganischen Chemie mit vielen aktuellen Beispielen. Prof. Dr. Peter Volgnandt, Technische Hochschule Nurnberg Hervorragendes Buch, ideal zur Einfuhrung, zeitgemasse Aufmachung. Prof. Dr. Oliver Tepner, Universitat Regensburg Ich habe noch nie ein Lehrbuch mit mehr Vergnugen gelesen. In Verstandlichkeit / Didaktik und in den Bezugen zur Chemie im Alltag unschlagbar. Prof. i. R. Dr. W. Klaui, Universitat Dusseldorf

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the founding of this unique Institution, and the individuals whose lives came together to make it happen: Sophia Jex-Blake; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Edith Pechey; and Isabel Thorne. The London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) was the first School in Britain to enable women to gain medical qualifications. Though its pioneering medical role is beginning to be recognized, the Chemistry Department at the School has been totally overlooked. All first-year students at the LSMW had to spend a significant portion of their time taking theoretical and practical chemistry, taught by dedicated women chemistry instructors. In this book, particular attention is given to each of these exceptionally-talented women chemists who found a haven at, and devoted their lives to, the LSMW. This book also covers the enthusiasm of the women medical students which becomes evident through the chemistry prose and poetry which they wrote. This book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the early role of women in science, and it is particularly relevant to those interested in the lives and contributions of pioneering women chemists.