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    The Book of Minds

    Philip Ball

    Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly…

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    How Life Works

    Philip Ball

    Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.

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    How Life Works

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    Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.

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    H2O: A Biography of Water

    Philip Ball

    The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.

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    The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

    Philip Ball

    The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.

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    Beautiful Experiments

    Philip Ball

    Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments it documents.

    This illustrated history of experimental science is more than…

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    Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

    Philip Ball

    Ball offers an architectural biography of the magnificent Chartres cathedral, a revolution in thought embodied in stone and glass, and the greatest conjunction of religion, science, and technology in Western…

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    Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

    Philip Ball

    No longer reviled, curiosity is now celebrated. By examining the rise of curiosity from the dawn of modern science to today, we can examine how it functions in science, how…

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    Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colour

    Philip Ball

    From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to…

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    Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It

    Philip Ball

    The author provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known–and what is still unknown–about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it…

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    The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

    Philip Ball

    In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball offers an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization.

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    Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different

    Philip Ball

    Originally published by The Bodley Head, 2018 –Title page verso.

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    Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

    Philip Ball

    This book proposes that the complex systems view of social sciences has matured sufficiently to make it possible, desirable and perhaps essential to try formulating a unified scheme for studying…

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    Curiosity

    Philip Ball

    There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Today curiosity is no longer reviled, but celebrated. Examining how our inquisitive impulse first became sanctioned, changing from a vice to a…

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    Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

    Philip Ball

    Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.

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    Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

    Philip Ball

    Unnatural delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of ‘anthropoeia’ - the artificial creation of people - to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity…

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    The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It

    Philip Ball

    Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

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    Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

    Philip Ball

    Discusses ‘colour in art’, its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art.

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    The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It

    Philip Ball

    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…

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    The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

    Philip Ball

    In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball offers an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization.

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    The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature

    Philip Ball

    Why do similar patterns appear in nature in settings that seem to bear no relation to one another? Nature commonly weaves its tapestry by self-organization, employing no master plan or…

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    Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

    Philip Ball

    If 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 there’s no…

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    Serving the Reich

    Philip Ball

    The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany--including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg--and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and '40s…

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    Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

    Philip Ball

    This book aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art, and to challenge some of the common notions about…

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    The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens

    Philip Ball

    Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly…

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    How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

    Philip Ball

    The bestselling author of Critical Mass offers a cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human in the face of the latest technical developments and research in cell biology…

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    Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

    Philip Ball

    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, Philip Ball shows…

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    Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

    Philip Ball

    Ball shows how much can be understood of human behavior when we cease to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions–whether…

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    Serving the Reich

    Philip Ball

    Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg. After the war most scientists in Germany maintained they had been apolitical or even resisted the regime: Debye…

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    Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does

    Philip Ball

    Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals…

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    Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

    Philip Ball

    Originally published by Bodley Head, 2013 –Title-page verso.

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    The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

    Philip Ball

    With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley to The War of the…

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    Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different

    Philip Ball

    Originally published by The Bodley Head, 2018 –Title page verso.

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    The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

    Philip Ball

    From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history…

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    The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

    Philip Ball

    Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly…

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    The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

    Philip Ball

    With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley to The War of the…

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    How Life Works

    Philip Ball

    "Bold and intriguing."--Wall Street Journal - "Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) - "Offers plenty of food for thought."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Ball's marvelous book is…

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    The Water Kingdom

    Philip Ball

    Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China’s history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue.

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    Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century

    Philip Ball

    Introduces an area of scientific research: materials science. This book describes how scientists are inventing materials, ranging from synthetic skin, blood, and bone to substances that repair themselves and adapt…

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    Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier

    Philip Ball

    Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change color while you wear them. This book…

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    Beyond Weird

    Philip Ball

    An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means-and what it doesn’t.

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    How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life

    Philip Ball

    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.

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    Neither Up nor Down: The British Army and the Campaign in Flanders 1793-95

    Philip Ball

    A Military history of the 1793-95 campaign in Flanders and the Netherlands.

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    Branches: Nature’s Patterns: a Tapestry in Three Parts

    Philip Ball (Freelance writer and consultant editor for Nature)

    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…

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    Branches: Nature’s patterns: a tapestry in three parts

    Philip Ball (Freelance writer and consultant editor for Nature)

    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…

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    Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different

    Philip Ball

    Originally published by The Bodley Head, 2018 –Title page verso.

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    The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science

    Philip Ball,Wenting Zhu

    This book will combine photographs with evocative text to show how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the patterns of animal markings, and much more –

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    A Waste of Blood and Treasure: The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the Netherlands

    Philip Ball,Kate Bohdanowicz

    First British examination of the campaign for more than forty years.

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