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Literary Illusions is proud to partner with Hachette Book Group to be giving away three copies of: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. To enter all you need to do is leave us a comment. Please be sure to ONLY LEAVE ONE COMMENT.
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We will begin emailing winners for this the week of June 20, 2010, which means you have until June 19, 2010 at 11:59 to enter.
FROM THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The Periodic Table is one of man’s crowning scientific achievements. But it’s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues’ wives when she’d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?
From the Big Bang to the end of time, it’s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.
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What a great book! My children and I would be mesmerized by the Disappearing Spoon….cool.
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my husband is such a nerd that he would love this!
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I would love to read this book! I’ve heard about it and it sounds fascinating! I love history and this gives us a glimpse into the little known histories. Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? Why did Ghandi hate iodine? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?
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I never did particularly well in the physical sciences at school. I never even attempted chemistry. This book, however, makes the subject sound fascinating.
Want to win this book for my husband! He loves history and how things work. This would give him many hours of pleasure and then he could tell me about it so I would want to read it also!
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My wife teaches 7th grade science–thgis will get her students interested.
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I am 65 and always curious about stuff however,somehow I got all the way thru school and college without taking a chemistry course, all that ended when I took a survey of chemistry course with Dr. Starey at Maryville University in St Louis. What a great eye opener to this new world. I would really love to devoure this book for 2 reasons, 1) I want to know more about the periodic table( can you believe it was basicly assembled by a Russion scientist in th 1800′s) and 2) I want to find some need things that hopefully I can use get one up on the good doctor with.
This book has made it onto my reading list, thanks for the chance to own it!