While offering clear, step-by-step explanations of scientific principles, the titles in this series also discuss the social significance and history of each subject using the most up-to-date research on the Physical, Earth, or Life Science addressed.

Web-style 'homepages' introduce to budding chemists each of the chemical elements from the periodic table, complete with witty and informative profiles written by the elements themselves.

Product Description: This book briefly examines the periodic table, and the elements that compose it.

Product Description: Aligned to Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects, this volume helps students understand the central ideas of Mendeleyev's periodic law. Mendeleyev's major breakthrough was his arranging of the elements in sequence by atomic weight but recognizing that there were gaps where no elements had yet been discovered...read more

Product Description: 'Is it science?' shows the scientific method at work. This title explores the development of the periodic table.