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Curiosity
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0099554275 ISBN13: 9780099554271
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Through curiosity, our innocence was said to be lost. Ye this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of creation in particle accelerators, out of pure... More

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Critical Mass
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0099457865 ISBN13: 9780099457862
Publisher: Cornerstone Arrow Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2005
Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, this title shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to... More

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The Elements
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0192840991 ISBN13: 9780192840998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 08 Apr 2004
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... More

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ISBN: 9780099535447 - The Music Instinct

The Music Instinct
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0099535440 ISBN13: 9780099535447
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2011
Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? This title explores how the research in music psychology and brain science is piecing... More

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Flow
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0199604878 ISBN13: 9780199604876
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 May 2011
Philip Ball explores the elusive rules that govern flow in nature - from the swirl of a wisp of smoke and eddies in rivers, to the huge persistent storm that is the Great Spot on Jupiter. Whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of... More

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Branches
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0199604886 ISBN13: 9780199604883
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 May 2011
Philip Ball explores the science of the branching patterns we see in nature, revealing that there is much more to these networks than meets the eye. Whether trees, snowflakes, forked lightning, or systems of arteries and veins, he explains how... More

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Shapes
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 019960486X ISBN13: 9780199604869
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 May 2011
Philip Ball explores the science of the shapes we see in nature, revealing how, from the stripes of a zebra to the development of a snowflake or even a human embryo, there is a pattern-forming tendency in the basic processes of nature... More

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Molecules
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0192854305 ISBN13: 9780192854308
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Nov 2003
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, previously published as Stories of the Invisible. Philip Ball... More

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Unnatural
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0099551837 ISBN13: 9780099551836
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Traces the threads that link the legendary inventor Daedalus, Goethe's tragic "Faust", the automata-making magicians of "E.T.A. Hoffman" and Mary Shelley's "Victor Frankenstein". This title argues that these old tales and myths are alive and well... More

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Universe of Stone
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0099499444 ISBN13: 9780099499442
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2009
Establishes Chartres Cathedral's iconic role in Europe's history: a revolution in thought embodied in stone and glass, a philosophy made concrete through the cooperation of theologians, craftsmen and engineers. This work shows us that there are... More

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