Full name: The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements

Author: Peter Atkins Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465072668 0465072666

Come on a journey into the heart of matter--and enjoy the process!--as a brilliant scientist and entertaining tour guide takes you on a fascinating voyage through the Periodic Kingdom, the world of the elements. The periodic table, your map for this trip, is the most important concept in chemistry. It hangs in classrooms and labs throughout the world, providing support for students, suggesting new avenues of research for professionals, succinctly organizing the whole of chemistry. The one hundred or so elements listed in the table make up everything in the universe, from microscopic organisms to distant planets. Just how does the periodic table help us make sense of the world around us? Using vivid imagery, ingenious analogies, and liberal doses of humor P. W. Atkins answers this question. He shows us that the Periodic Kingdom is a systematic place. Detailing the geography, history and governing institutions of this imaginary landscape, he demonstrates how physical similarities can point to deeper affinities, and how the location of an element can be used to predict its properties. Here's an opportunity to discover a rich kingdom of the imagination kingdom of which our own world is a manifestation. This book is part of the "The Science Masters" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Just Six Numbers" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Words and Rules" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Symbiotic Planet" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "One Renegade Cell" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Why Is Sex Fun?" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Kinds of Minds" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Nature's Numbers" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "River Out of Eden" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Origin Of The Universe" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Last Three Minutes" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Wrinkles in Time" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Origin of Humankind" First published in 1981 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "What Evolution Is" First published in 1940 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Nature's Building Blocks by John Emsley Molecules by Philip Ball The Elements by Theodore W. Gray Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams The Elements by Philip Ball Mendeleyev's Dream by Paul Strathern The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The 13th Element by John Emsley The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin Wiker Chemical Chaos by Nick Arnold Napoleon's Buttons by Penny Le Couteur Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis One Renegade Cell by Robert Weinberg Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot The Origin Of The Universe by John D. Barrow Liquid by Mark Miodownik Oxygen by Nick Lane Plutonium by Jeremy Bernstein What Einstein Told His Barber by Robert L. Wolke The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies