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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
Shapes: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball
Category: Science
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
Shapes: Nature's Patterns: a Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball
Category: Science & Natural History
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
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
Category: Philosophy
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
Category: Languages and Reference
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
Category: Science & Natural History
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
Category: History
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 Modern Myths - Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
Category: Culture
"Impressive. . . . Rich in cultural history and imagination. . . . To Ball, mythic writing is where the conditions of irrationality, superstition, and enchantment persist: forms of wonder that depend on the disconnect between what we know for sure and what we simply believe."--New York Times Book Review ...Show more
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
Category: Science
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 New Science of Strong Materials - Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by James Edward Gordon; Philip Ball (Introduction by)
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fascinating and fundamental questions about how the structural world around us works. Gordon focuses on so-called strong materials--such as metals, wood, ceramics, glass, and bone--explaining in engaging ...Show more