"First published as The ingredients, 2002"--T.p. verso.
1. Aristotle's quartet : the elements in antiquity
2. Revolution : how oxygen changed the world
3. Gold : the glorious and accursed element
4. The eightfold path : organizing the elements
5. The atom factories : making new elements
6. The chemical brothers : why isotopes are useful
7. For all practical purposes : technologies of the elements.
The elements : a very short introduction by Philip Ball. ISBN 0192840991. Published by Oxford University Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.