Europe in the throes of WWI and II serves as backdrop for this latest dose of melodrama from megabestseller Steel. Bookish, raven-haired beauty Beata Wittgenstein meets dashing French nobleman Antoine de Vallerand while on vacation in Switzerland and falls passionately in love. An affluent German Jew whose strict Orthodox parents forbid marriage outside the faith, Beata knows that a union with a Catholic from war-rival France is out of the question. But love trumps all, and shortly after returning to Germany, Beata defies her family, arranging to meet Antoine in Switzerland, where they marry.
Chemistry examines 10 people who made some of the most progressive steps in the field. Entries include Gerty Cori, John Dalton, Emil Hermann Fischer, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Percy Julian, Irving Langmuir, Antoine Lavoisier, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Linus Pauling, and Joseph Priestley.
