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Beyond Weird ... Quantum Physics ... by Philip Ball
38.00 NZD
Category: Science
An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, addressing the question that most others fail to ask: what does quantum mechanics actually mean? 'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili 'I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantu ...Show more
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
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 these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments ...Show more
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, Philip Ball shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals ...Show more
Music Instinct: how music works and by BALL Philip
64.99 NZD
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
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does by Philip Ball
76.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
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
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery by Philip Ball
55.00 NZD
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 Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
30.00 NZD
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
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