Vital forces : the discovery of the molecular basis of life / Graeme K. Hunter.

San Diego : Academic Press, [2000], ©2000.

xix, 364 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes indexes and bibliography: p. [351]-355.

Revolution in chemistry has come to pass -- Maze of organic chemistry -- Singular inward laboratory -- Catalytic force -- Building stones of protoplasm -- Chemical and geometrical phenomena of heredity -- Megachemistry of the future -- Giant molecules of the living cell -- Chemical basis of genetics -- Hereditary code-script -- Ubiquitous spiral -- Our thread of ariadne -- Nature is blind and reads braille.