Very short introductions #417

"First published in hardback as "What is Chemistry?" 2013. First published as a Very Short Introduction 2015"--Tp Verso

Its origins, scope and organization -- Its principles: atoms and molecules -- Its principles: energy and entropy -- Its reactions -- Its techniques -- Its achievements -- Its future -- Periodic table

A look at chemistry anew, through a chemist's eyes, in order to understand its central concepts and to see how it contributes not only towards our material comfort, but also to human culture