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Invisible - The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 need to feel guilty. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses ...Show more
Music Instinct: how music works and by BALL Philip
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music
All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music can excite deep passions, and how we make sense of musical sound at all are questions that have, until recently, remained profoundly mysterious. Now in "The Music Instinct" Philip Ball provides the first com ...Show more
Shapes: Nature's Patterns: a Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball
$44.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living or non-living, scientists have foun ...Show more
The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science by Philip Ball
$64.99 AUD
Category: Science
Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. U ...Show more
The Book of Minds by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Science now has plenty to say about the properties of mind. In recent decades, the mind - both human and otherwi ...Show more
The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens by Philip Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world of experience has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries. How do we even begin to think about ‘minds’ that are not human? That is the question explored in this ground-breaking book. Award-winning science writer Philip Ball argues ...Show more
The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
Who was Paracelsus and what did he believe and practice? This book presents Paracelsus as a more complex man - who used his eyes and ears to learn from nature how to heal, and who wrote influential books on medicine, surgery, alchemy and theology while living a drunken, combative, vagabond life.
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery by Philip Ball
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transf ...Show more
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition. minor marks & foxing on pages. minor crease at spine. 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? These are questions that have ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist. A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to gra ...Show more