Description: The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the world from the Periodic Table of the Elements National BestsellerAmong the many positive reviews: "Kean's palpable enthusiasm and the thrill of knowledge and invention the book imparts can infect even the most right-brained reader."-- Christine Thomas , Miami Herald "Only once in a rare while does an author come along with the craft and the vision to capture the fun and fascination of chemistry. The Disappearing Spoon is a pleasure and full of insights. If only I had read it before taking chemistry."-- Mark Kurlansky , author of Salt and Cod "[Kean turns] The Disappearing Spoon into a nonstop parade of lively science stories...ebullient."-- Janet Maslin , New York Times "If you stared a little helplessly at the chart of the periodic table on the wall of your high school chemistry class, then this is the book for you. It elucidates both the meanings and the pleasures of those numbers and letters, and does so with style and dash."-- Bill McKibben , author "With a constant flow of fun facts bubbling to the surface, Kean writes with wit, flair, and authority in a debut that will delight even general readers."-- Publishers Weekly "Kean's writing sparks like small shocks...he gives science a whiz-bang verve so that every page becomes one you cannot wait to turn just to see what he's going reveal next."-- Caroline Leavitt , The Boston Globe "Kean...unpacks the periodic table's bag of tricks with such aplomb and fascination that material normally as heavy as lead transmutes into gold. A-"-- Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly " The Disappearing Spoon shines a welcome light on the beauty of the periodic table. Follow plain speaking and humorous Sam Kean into its intricate geography and stray into astronomy, biology, and history, learn of neon rain and gas warfare, meet both ruthless and selfless scientists, and before it is over fall head over heels for the anything but arcane subject of chemistry."-- Bill Streever , author of Cold "Nearly 150 years of wide-ranging science...and Kean makes it all interesting. Entertaining and enlightening."-- Kirkus
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Location: Seattle, Washington
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Book Title: Disappearing Spoon and Other Tales from the Periodic Table
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Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Item Length: 8.5 in
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Publication Year: 2011
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1.2 in
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Author: Sam Kean
Genre: Science
Topic: Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, Chemistry / Analytic, History, Chemistry / Organic, Chemistry / General
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Item Width: 5.8 in
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
