Not, per se, a book, but from the annals of chemist Derek Lowe. This is the subsection of his ongoing blog at ScienceMag, called, "Things I Won't Work With." For those of you with an interest in Chemistry, it's an eye-opener and frequently very humorous, as he chronicles things that only the insane might actually work with.
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