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The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
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 grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
Universe Of Stone: Chartres Cathedral And Triumph Of by Ball, Philip
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Universe of Stone by Philip Ball
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - not the squat, gloomy buildings we now call Romanesque, but soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows. The inception of the age of Gothic architecture in the late twelfth century marke ...Show more
Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Can we make a human being? That question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the homunculus of the medieval alchemists and the clay golem of Jewish legend to Frankenstein's monster and the mass-produced test-tube babies in "Brave New World". All of these efforts to c ...Show more
Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
Can we make a human being? The question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the clay golem of Jewish legend to the mass-produced test-tube babies in Brave New World. Unnatural delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of 'anthropoeia' - the artificial creati ...Show more