Libros de Philip Ball

How To Grow A Human: Adventures In How We Are Made And Who We Are

• Two summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball's arm and turned it into

Al Servicio Del Reich

• 354 páginas
• Los primeros científicos que experimentaron con la física atómica tuvieron la "suerte" de vivir unos tiempos interesantes. En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, la ciencia alemana se convirtió en un asunto político:...

The Book Of Minds : How To Understand Ourselves And Other Beings, From Animals To Aliens

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History Of China

• From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its

Beyond Weird

• 384 páginas
• Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature . His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: Ho

Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics Is Different

• 384 páginas
• "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.". Since Niels

Patterns In Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does

• 288 páginas
• While the natural world is often described as organic, it is in fact structured to the very molecule, replete with patterned order that can be decoded with basic mathematical algorithms and principles. In a nautilus shell one can see logarithmic spirals,...

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested In Everything

• With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being

Life's Matrix: A Biography Of Water

• One of the four elements of classical antiquity, water is central to the environment of our planet.

Universe Of Stone: Chartres Cathedral And The Invention Of The Gothic

• Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works..

Sun And Moon Corrupted

• 336 páginas
• About the search for unlimited energy, following a misunderstood maverick physicist and a young journalist after the scoop of the century.

Bright Earth

• Discusses 'colour in art', its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art.

Molecules

• 170 páginas
• The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants

Made To Measure

• "Made to Measure" introduces a general audience to one of today's most exciting areas of..

The Elements

• 186 páginas
• This Very Short Introduction is an exciting and non-traditional approach to understanding the terminology, properties, and classification of chemical elements. It traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people...

Designing The Molecular World

• Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, design...