Table of Contents

Introduction: The Stuff of the World
Chapter 1: Chemistry Without Knowing it
Chapter 2: A Spiritual Science
Chapter 3: Gold and the Golden Age
Chapter 4: From Alchemy to Chemistry
Chapter 5: Airy Nothings
Chapter 6: Atoms, Elements and Affinities
Chapter 7: Bonds for Life
Chapter 8: What's In There?
Chapter 9: Making Stuff
Conclusion: Into the Future
Index
Picture Credits

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How the World Works: Chemistry is a wonderful introduction to this intriguing discipline, tracing the history of chemical exploration and discovery from our ancient forebears up to the breakthroughs of today.

About the Author

Anne Rooney is an award-winning author who has written several bestselling books on history, philosophy and science. She was longlisted for the prestigious Aventis Science Prize in 2004, was shortlisted for the ALCS Educational Writers' Award in 2015 and won the School Library Association Information Book Award in 2018. She has a degree and a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newham College, Cambridge. In 2018 Her books have been translated into 22 languages.