Organized into the nine major groups of the periodic table, "Elements Vault" includes all new text, new photographs, and even more information about the elements. The guide also includes 20 removable historic documents related to the elements and the field of chemistry. Each of these documents is individually packaged in an envelope attached to the book page. 128 pp. 30,000 print.

About the Author

Theodore Gray is the author of the bestselling The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe and Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't, and of Popular Science magazine's "Gray Matter" column. He is the proprietor of periodictable.com. He is also cofounder of Wolfram Research, creators of the world's leading technical software system, Mathematica[registered], and Wolfram | Alpha[trademark]. With his company Touch Press, Gray is the developer of the bestselling i-Pad and i-Phone e-book app The Elements: A Visual Exploration. Nick Mann is a freelance photographer working in central Illinois. Aside from having photographed more elements than probably anyone in the world, he is an accomplished landscape, sports, and event photographer.

Reviews

"I don't know if this is the first coffee-table book paying lush photographic homage to the periodic table, but it is certainly the most gorgeous one I've seen." --John Tierney, "The New York Times"