Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series: The Periodic Table : Introduction by Neal Ascherson (Hardcover)

from copyedit52

Fantastic book. I toyed with giving this book four stars because several chapters veered away from the first person tone of the Primo Levi narrator and into discomforting make-believe; and because the final chapter, "Carbon," was barely comprehensible--on the heels of the spectacular chapter "Iro...

from ben_a

A magnificent book. I just re-read this while on the train back from New York with my wife. but On the very last page, I found the note "York & 60th, Hospital Building, 8th Floor." This was the address of my wife's (then my girlfriend's) lab in New York 13 years ago. Evidently I first read it on ...

from Stodelay

I read this book as an undergrad in Provo. I remember after reading Survival in Auschwitz wanting to read everything I could find by Levi. I read this and wasn't initially wowed by it, but as time passed and I revisited the stories, my appreciation really grew. The book is structurally very cleve...

from Stodelay

I read this book as an undergrad in Provo. I remember after reading Survival in Auschwitz wanting to read everything I could find by Levi. I read this and wasn't initially wowed by it, but as time passed and I revisited the stories, my appreciation really grew. The book is structurally very cleve...

from EmreSevinc

Only after I finished the book have I learned that the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever in 2006. I, for one, have no objection! Reading this book in 2016 as a mathematician and a software engineer in my mid-career has an interesting appeal to me. Why? Because...