Salt and sod. Elemental origins and the invention of need ; Soil without soul : why aluminum was rejected by life
Precious forces. Unbreakable bonds : the challenge of extraction ; The bond breakers and their bounty
Flight and foil. Mobile metal : how aluminum facilitated war and peace ; Aluminum for all : the invention of a household metal
Elemental flows. Recycling and realism : the industrial ecology paradigm ; Restoration and renewal of mineral frontiers
Epilogue : governing our planet's elemental resources.
