Donna Postel
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This "excellent" popular science book explores just what we-and the things around us-are made of (Aftenposten, Norway).
Some elements get all the attention: glittering gold, radioactive uranium-materials we call "precious" because they are so rare. But what could be more precious than the building blocks of life-from the oxygen in our air to the carbon in all living things?
In The Elements We Live By, physicist and award-winning author Anja...