"It is for the 'ultrafast' chapters that the book will be read for these contain new and very unfamiliar material. The book is handsomely produced with all the illustrations on a Cambridge blue background."

"A Life in Chemistry is a unique book, the autobiography of a top-class scientist who, quite unusually, is still very active at the age of 76. The book is not only absorbing but also entertaining."

"A Life in Chemistry is a unique book, the autobiography of a top-class scientist who, quite unusually, is still very active at the age of 76. The book is not only absorbing but also entertaining."

"General readers (or chemists, science educators, or philosophers) seeking an overview of this area could find no more effective, concise, convenient entry into this important and actively developing field than the one that this volume provides."

"This fun-filled, modestly priced book provides an effective approach for both performer and audience to teach/learn basic scientific concepts as well as to reinforce the notion that science is not boring ¡­ It should interest chemistry students and educators as well as persons in outreach programs of institutions and schools, who are urged by the authors to 'Go forth and perform'."

"This book will be of interest to his colleagues and contemporaries in physical chemistry, and indirectly to historians via the first-hand attributions of Porter's influence. Between the lines, this book is a catalogue of the credentials of the great and the good of two generations in British chemistry."

"This volume is an elegant presentation of a statistical mechanical approach to liquid water."

"... most of the chapters in this book view natural products in a holistic manner from the point of view of their biological activity. This book therefore complements the conventional structure-based natural product texts, providing examples of their diverse biological activities for use in lectures and providing inspiration for synthetic targets."