This is a marvellous piece of popular science for anyone who is even far from physics! For grade 12 to 85 years old grandparents.

This book is a breezy run through some chemistry basics, there are some good advice and some funny parts. Maybe this fills a gap between the really serous stuff and kitchen lore but I prefer the serious treatments. This book very often leaves me wanting more as the author (for space reasons? for reasons of not believing that the audience can take more chemistry?) stops when things get really interesting.