Playing with fire: A thousand years of explosives
Black powder's soul: The quest for the elusive saltpeter
Blasting oil and blasting cap: Alfred Nobel and the terrible power of nitroglycerin
Construction and destruction: dynamite and the engineering revolution
The great equalizer: explosives and social change
Inventions, patents, and lawsuits: The golden age of explosives
The Guano trade: The toil for Chilean saltpeter and the war of the Pacific
The profits of dynamite: a gift to science and civilization
Battle of the Falklands: The struggle for the global nitrate supply
The father of the war: Fritz Haber's World-changing discovery
Epilogue: War and the green revolution.
