John Emsley is a popular science writer whose first book, The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, won the 1995 Science Book Prize and has been translated into 12 other languages. Then came Molecules at an Exhibition, Vanity, Vitality & Virility, and Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving, A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World all devoted to the benefits of chemistry. A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World will deal with the things we regard as essential to a developed lifestyle and which depend on chemistry, namely food, water, fuel, healing drugs and plastics, as well as other areas where its role is less obvious, such as city living and sport.

• Introduction;Health and Chemistry;Food and Chemistry;Water and Chemistry;Transport, Biofuels and Chemistry;Plastics and Chemistry;Cities and Chemistry;Sport and Chemistry;Glossary;Something to think about;Sources and further reading;Index

John Emsley is a popular science writer whose first book, The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, won the 1995 Science Book Prize and has been translated into 12 other languages. Then came Molecules at an Exhibition, Vanity, Vitality & Virility, and Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving, A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World all devoted to the benefits of chemistry. A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World will deal with the things we regard as essential to a developed lifestyle and which depend on chemistry, namely food, water, fuel, healing drugs and plastics, as well as other areas where its role is less obvious, such as city living and sport.

• Introduction;Health and Chemistry;Food and Chemistry;Water and Chemistry;Transport, Biofuels and Chemistry;Plastics and Chemistry;Cities and Chemistry;Sport and Chemistry;Glossary;Something to think about;Sources and further reading;Index