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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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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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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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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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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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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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H2O
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0753810921 ISBN13: 9780753810927
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Oct 2000
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... More

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Unnatural
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 1847921523 ISBN13: 9781847921529
Publisher: Vintage The Bodley Head Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2011
Delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of 'anthropoeia' - the creation of artificial people - to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology, and the soul. Can we make a human being? More

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Elegant Solutions
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 0854046747 ISBN13: 9780854046744
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Aug 2005
Offering ten suggestions of what may be the most beautiful experiments in chemistry, Philip Ball provides an insight into the way chemists think and work, and demonstrates how what they do affects the rest of science and the wider world. More

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