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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc Walter Isaacson Keller shows how the storyIn 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