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Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball
Category: Biography & Memoir
Second-hand, paperback in good condition. Handwritten message on inside front cover. Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishmen ...Show more
Flow: Nature's Patterns: a Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball
Category: Science & Natural History
From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex dynamics of flow that structures our ...Show more
H2O : A Biography of Water by Philip Ball
Category: Science
The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role in biology, its place in the physical world (where it refuses to obey the usual rules of liquids) or its deceptively simple structure, there is ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
Category: POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are by Philip BALL; Philip Ball
Category: Science
How to Grow a Human - Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
Category: Science & Natural History
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. After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons - essentially mini-brains - Philip Ball begins to examine the concept ...Show more
Invisible - The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
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
Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
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
Category: Fiction
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
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does by Philip Ball
Category: Art and Design
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 of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at the foundation of the seemingly chaotic nat ...Show more
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball
Category: History
Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as they continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were three world-renowned physicists: Max Planck, p ...Show more