Pre-Owned The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the (Hardcover) by Thomas Hager

9780307351784. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 316. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 316 p. Hager recounts the story of the two men who found a solution to the eminent problem of global starvation at the turn of the 20th century. But their discovery came at a price: the same process they engineered into synthetic fertilizer was used to make the explosives that killed millions during both world wars.