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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…