Philip Ball művei

Beyond Weird

'A clear and deeply researched account of what's known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might really me...

Alchemy - An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

"The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people since antiquity. Many early cultures are known to have experimented with chemica...

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why...

The Water Kingdom - A Secret of China

Flow. Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts

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 sim...

Critical Mass (How one thing leads to another)

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern...

Universe of Stone - Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind

Bright Earth - Art and The Invention of Color

H2O: A Biography of Water

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water...

Bright Earth - The Invention of Colour

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have ...

The Man Who Broke Reality - Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

The revolutionary science and dramatic life of Niels Bohr-one of the great physicists of the 20th century

The Man Who Broke Reality - Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

Experimente - Versuch und Irrtum in der Wissenschaft

Eine spannende Reise durch die Welt der experimentellen Naturwissenschaft.Vom Foucaultschen Pendel bis zum DNA-Origami.Erfolgsautor Phil...

How Life Works - A User's Guide to the New Biology

Made to Measure - New Materials for the 21st Century