Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
Periodic Tales - A Cultural History of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc - cover

Periodic Tales - A Cultural History of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Publisher: Ecco

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements—and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. It will delight readers of Genome, Einstein’s Dreams, Longitude, and The Age of Wonder. 
Available since: 03/29/2011.
Print length: 453 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • How to deal with mental health and anxiety - Live Better - cover

    How to deal with mental health...

    Jamel E

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    In this day in age mental health is extremely important this book is about how to deal with mental health and anxiety this book gives you great tips on mind exercises you can do to help you through all situations. 
    Show book
  • Emergency Preparedness - Learning About Plans and Kits for Disaster Survival - cover

    Emergency Preparedness -...

    Wesley Jones

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Learn how to make disasters less of a disaster by being prepared. 
The Scout's motto is “Be prepared”. Still, a large group of people don't think it’s a big deal to have a storage, know something about emergency kits, or prepare just in case...until a big hurricane floods the city, or forest fire hits your hometown. Look around you. Disasters can happen everywhere, and they do. So it’s better to have a little bit of a background plan. 
Discover some of the following things:Why having an emergency plan is crucialWhat an emergency plan consists of and how to get better at creating oneSetting prioritiesPreparing your emergency preparedness kitsConsiderations you should know in case a disaster strikesThe emergency mindset and everything there is to it 
Don’t be that person who regrets not taking the time to listen to what you need to do and then end up being the victim of some unfortunate circumstance. 
    Show book
  • The Advanced Day Trading Guide - Learn Secret Strategies on How You Can Day Trade Forex Options Stocks and Futures to Become a SUCCESSFUL Day Trader For a Living! - cover

    The Advanced Day Trading Guide -...

    Neil Sharp

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Do you want to live a life of freedom, flexibility, and have endless amounts of income? If so, then keep reading....Do you have problems choosing the correct stocks to trade? Reducing your risk when trading? Knowing the best strategies for day trading? Or even selecting the best time to trade? If you do, within this audiobook, many of the top leaders in the field - many with over 10 years of experience - have shared their knowledge on how to overcome these problems and more.In The Advanced Day Trading Guide, you will discover: •	A simple trick you can do to find the most profitable stocks to day trade •	The best day-trading strategies for making the most money in the shortest amount of time•	The one method you should follow for becoming a successful day trader •	Why selecting the best time to trade can help you double the amount you make in a day •	Understanding why some people will fail to make money day trading•	And much, much more The proven methods and pieces of knowledge are so easy to follow. Even if you’ve never heard of day trading before, you will still be able to get to a high level of success.So, if you don’t want to just transform your bank account but instead revolutionize your life, then start listening NOW!
    Show book
  • Gifts of the Crow - How Perception Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans - cover

    Gifts of the Crow - How...

    Tony Angell, John Marzluff

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he teams up with artist and fellow naturalist Tony Angell to offer an in-depth look at these incredible creatures—in a book that is brimming with surprises. 
Redefining the notion of "bird brain," crows and ravens are often called feathered apes because of their clever tool-making and their ability to respond to environmental challenges, including those posed by humans. Indeed, their long lives, social habits, and large complex brains allow them to observe and learn from us and our social gatherings. Their marvelous brains allow crows to think, plan, and reconsider their actions. In these and other enthralling revelations, Marzluff and Angell portray creatures that are nothing short of amazing: they play, bestow gifts on people who help or feed them, use cars as nutcrackers, seek revenge on animals that harass them, are tricksters that lure birds to their deaths, and dream. The authors marvel at crows' behavior that we humans would find strangely familiar, from delinquency and risk taking to passion and frolic. A testament to years of painstaking research, this riveting work is a thrilling look at one of nature's most wondrous creatures.
    Show book
  • The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus - The Mathematics of Christmas - cover

    The Indisputable Existence of...

    Hannah Fry, Thomas Oléron Evans

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Two merry mathematicians explore the geometry of gift-wrapping, board game theory, and much more in this hilarious holiday treat. 
 
How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list? What equations should you use to decorate the Christmas tree? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner—shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night—or fatter—as he munches on cookies and milk in billions of houses across the world? 
 
In The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, distinguished mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans demonstrate, with eminently readable clarity, how applied mathematics are so thoroughly interwoven throughout our everyday lives by explaining mathematical concepts through one very merry motif: Christmas. In their quest to provide mathematical proof for the existence of Santa, the authors take readers on a festive journey through a traditional holiday season, wherein every activity, from wrapping presents to playing board games to cooking the perfect turkey, is painstakingly and hilariously analyzed. Because who hasn’t always wondered how to set up a mathematically perfect Secret Santa?  
 
Lighthearted and diverting with Christmasy diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains, and matrices, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus brightens up the bleak midwinter with a stockingful of mathematical marvels.
    Show book
  • Medicare Patients Aren't Getting Sicker or Older - cover

    Medicare Patients Aren't Getting...

    PBS NewsHour

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The Center for Public Integrity investigated how Medicare billing changed over the past decade and found doctors were billing at much higher rates. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Center for Public Integrity's Fred Schulte to understand why doctors are 'upcoding' more and why electronic medical records could be driving higher prices.
    Show book