Author: Philip Ball
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Save 5% How Life Works: A Users Guide to the New Biology
Philip BallCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99'An essential primer on humanitys ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' Adam Rutherfor...
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Save 5% The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science
Philip BallCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature.Chemi...
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Save 5% Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Philip BallCurrent price €17.09Original price €17.99Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any Jewish ideas, m...
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Save 5% How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Philip BallCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99A 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...
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Save 10% Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science
Philip BallCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to...
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Philip BallCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50'An essential primer on humanitys ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' Adam Rutherfor...
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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
Philip BallCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50A New Scientist Best Book of 2023 Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experi...
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Save 10% The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens
Philip BallCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begi...
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Serving the Reich
Philip BallCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany--including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg--and how they accommodated themselv...
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The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Philip BallCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of timefun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are s...
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can''t Do Without It
Philip BallCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical s...
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Beyond Weird
Philip BallCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50PHYSICS WORLD 2018 BOOK OF THE YEARA clear and deeply researched account of whats known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about wh...
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does
Philip BallCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from t...
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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
Philip BallCurrent price €29.58Original price €32.50This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides ...
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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
Philip BallCurrent price €18.05Original price €20.99If offered the chance--by cloak, spell, or superpower--to be invisible, who wouldn''t want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy v...
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The Water Kingdom
Philip BallCurrent price €16.47Original price €18.50Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and impe...
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Invisible: The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics
Philip BallCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But ...
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Curiosity
Philip BallCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--th...
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Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
Philip BallCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--th...
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A Waste of Blood and Treasure: The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the Netherlands
Kate BohdanowiczCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99With the Netherlands overrun by French Republican forces, the British and Russian governments sent an allied army of 48,000 men under the Duke of Y...
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30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 most thought-provoking quantum concepts, each explained in half a minute
Alexander HellemansCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.Each titl...
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30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 most thought-provoking quantum concepts, each explained in half a minute
Alexander HellemansCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.Each titl...
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