Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Matter, Are You There? -- Prologue: Sensitive Matter, Divine Matter? -- Introduction: Let Us Praise Sensitivity, a Unifying Virtue -- Conciliation: The Art of Resolving Conflicts -- Revelation: The Little Additive That Changes Everything -- Adaptation: Responding to the Environment -- Epilogue -- Bonus Tracks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index of Sensitive Materials -- Index of Proper Names -- 1. Peacemaking among Enemies . . . Easy When -- 2. Dissolving Fat in Water: A Question of Organization -- 3. Don't Mix, Associate! -- 4. Rubber: A Story Nearly Cut Short -- 5. The Firefighter's Jet Stream: Reach for the Sky -- 6. The Glamorous Affair of Gas and Liquid -- 7. Down with Foam! -- 8. Breathing: An Unseen Triumph -- 9. Familiarity and Distance: Colloids -- 10. Sensitive Cooking -- 11. A Cell, Though Not a Prison -- 12. Putting Drug Delivery on Controlled Release -- 13. Perpetual Sensitivity: Granular Matter -- 14. Liquefaction of the "Blood" of St. Januarius.