Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year (2010) Is there a secret logic

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Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize

A young Lemony Snicket begins an apprenticeship for a secret organization in a fading town and becomes entangled in a mystery

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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Whitney Award for Best Novel of the Year (2010) Is there a secret logicIn 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 elementsand 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