Periodic Tales
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2011
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780061824722
Description: "In the spirit of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, an energetic and wide-ranging book of discovery and discoverers, of exploitation and celebration, and of superstition and science, all in search of the ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language"--