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How Life Works
A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2025
194 kr
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'An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherford, The Guardian'Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [here] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.' – The …
Man Who Broke Reality
Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2026
203 kr
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Danish physicist Niels Bohr was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.He won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his revolutionary contribution to quantum theory.He was engaged in a lifelong intellectual duel with Einstein - and modern experiments have vindicated his view.During the …
Man Who Broke Reality
Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
Av Philip Ball
Inbunden, 2026
344 kr
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'The Man Who Broke Reality is comprehensive, authoritative and shrewd, and, like all of Philip Ball's books, as entertaining as it is enlightening' John Banville, Financial Times______Danish physicist Niels Bohr was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.He won the Nobel Prize in …
Elements
A Visual History of Their Discovery
Av Philip Ball
Inbunden, 2021
251 kr
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This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and …
Beautiful Experiments
An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
Av Philip Ball
Inbunden, 2023
290 kr
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A New Scientist Best Book of 2023Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and …
Bright Earth
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2003
253 kr
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If you want to know why a good blue was so hard to find for so long, or why printed reproductions rarely match the colour of the originals, or why Rothko's canvases have changed colour in only 40 years, or just about anything else about the art and science involved in creating and using colour, …
Critical Mass
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
137 kr
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Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human behaviour we can understand when we cease trying to predict …
Modern Myths
Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2022
245 kr
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With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales.Myths are usually seen …
H2O
A Biography of Water
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2000
148 kr
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The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role …
Alchemy
An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science
Av Philip Ball
Inbunden, 2025
402 kr
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Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy “Philip Ball’s book is a treasure: beautifully illustrated and, as usual, the author caries his learning lightly.”—David Wootton, Spectator The craft of …
Bright Earth
The Invention of Colour
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and …
Molecules
A Very Short Introduction
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2003
113 kr
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The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow …
Beyond Weird
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
155 kr
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PHYSICS WORLD 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A clear and deeply researched account of what’s known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might really mean’ Nature‘I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.’ Richard Feynman wrote this in 1965 – the year …
Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
Av Philip Ball
Inbunden, 2010
1298 kr
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How Life Works
A User's Guide to the New Biology
Av Philip Ball
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
349 kr
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Bold and intriguing. Wall Street Journal Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Offers plenty of food for thought. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Balls marvelous book is both wide-ranging and deep. . . . I could not put it down.Siddhartha …
How Life Works
A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2023
225 kr
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'An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherford, The Guardian'Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . . There is so much [here] that is amazing . . . urgent . . . astonishing.' – The …
How to Grow a Human
Adventures in Who We are and How We are Made
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2019
114 kr
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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine the …
How to Grow a Human
Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
Av Philip Ball
Ljudbok, 2019
214 kr
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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a ''self'' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine the …
How to Grow a Human
Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2020
121 kr
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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine the …
Universe of Stone
Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2009
118 kr
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"[A] lively biography of Chartres Cathedral . . . Ball''s account of its construction reveals fascinating details." —The New YorkerChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who …
Devil's Doctor
Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2007
221 kr
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Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern; a name that is familiar but a man who has been hard to perceive or understand. Contemporary of Luther, enemy of established medicine, scourge of the …
Music Instinct
How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
157 kr
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Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now The Music Instinct explores how the latest research in music psychology …
Serving the Reich
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Av Philip Ball
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any ‘Jewish ideas’, many others made compromises and concessions as they continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, …
Elements
A Very Short Introduction
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2004
92 kr
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This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author examines our relationship with matter, from the uncomplicated vision of …
Shapes
Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2009
164 kr
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Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living or non-living, scientists have …
Flow
Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2009
164 kr
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From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex dynamics of flow that structures …
Branches
Nature''s patterns: a tapestry in three parts
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2009
177 kr
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As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.Many patterns in nature show a branching form - trees, river deltas, blood …
Elements
A Very Short Introduction
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2004
92 kr
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This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author examines our relationship with matter, from the uncomplicated vision of …
Molecules
A Very Short Introduction
Av Philip Ball
E-bok, 2003
92 kr
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The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball explores the role of the molecule in and around us - how, for example, a single fertilized egg can grow …
