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Beyond Weird by Philip Ball
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20PHYSICS WORLD 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR'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 mean' Nature 'I think I can... -
Critical Mass by Philip Ball
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and... -
H2O: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is... -
The Water Kingdom Philip Ball 9781784701543
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one... -
The Elements: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.78This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the... -
Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic by Philip Ball 9780061154300
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science by Philip Ball
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern; a name that is familiar but a man who has been hard to... -
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball 9780226823843
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.50With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780099581642
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Serving 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... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780226829340
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does by Philip Ball
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $37.51Though 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... -
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18A 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... -
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have, until recently,... -
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball 9781847920881 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $4.13* 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,... -
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future by Iwan Rhys Morus
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' - NatureNikola Tesla is one of the... -
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future by Iwan Rhys Morus 9781785786174
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.79'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' - NatureNikola Tesla is one of the... -
How Music Works by David Byrne
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.60How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll 9780861546480
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.65THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and... -
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They? by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our... -
Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A symphony, filled with the music of life . . . fascinating,... -
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Professor Anil Seth
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for... -
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor by J. E. Gordon 9780691180984
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.14J. 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... -
Interstellar Tours: A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window Brian Clegg 9781837730766
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Strap in and enjoy the ride!' JOHN GRIBBIN'A window seat on a flight to our galaxy's sites of outstanding beauty' MARCUS CHOWN, AUTHOR OF THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW'His best yet!' HENRY GEE,... -
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian Copenhaver
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56'. . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised... -
Charles Darwin: Origins and Arguments Bill Price 9781842433126
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 was the culmination of more than twenty years of work by Charles Darwin and the ideas he presented in it would lead to a fundamental change in the way... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 9781789147582
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the... -
Interstellar Tours: A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window by Brian Clegg 9781837730759
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76'Strap in and enjoy the ride!' JOHN GRIBBIN'A window seat on a flight to our galaxy's sites of outstanding beauty' MARCUS CHOWN, AUTHOR OF THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW'His best yet!' HENRY GEE,... -
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell is Rewriting the Story of Life Alfonso Martinez Arias 9781399809948
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Timely, important and compelling' Philip Ball'A new and stunning argument' Azra RazaWhat defines who we are?Until now, the biological answer has been our genes. Leading biologist Alfonso Martinez... -
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts'... -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick 9780007225743
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.01Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its... -
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark A. Miodownik
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING STUFF MATTERS Sometimes explosive, often delightful, occasionally poisonous, but always fascinating: the secret lives of liquids, from one of our... -
What is Chemistry? by Peter W. Atkins
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.94Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as a subject that was largely incomprehensible, fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and... -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.The puzzles of life astound and confuse us like no other mystery. But in this revolutionary... -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell 9781786493026
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.56One of Britain's foremost astrobiologists offers an accessible and game-changing account of life on Earth.__________________Why is all life based on carbon rather than silicon? And beyond Earth,... -
The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction by Eric R. Scerri
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring... -
Water for Gotham: A History by Gerard T. Koeppel 9780691089768
Booksplease Price: $62.58Water for Gotham tells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers 9781399604055
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,... -
The Solar Revolution: One World. One Solution. Providing the Energy and Food for 10 Billion People. by Steve McKevitt
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60It's an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour's worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet's food and energy needs for an entire year.The Solar Revolution tells... -
All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life David Bentley Hart 9780300254723
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.31A world-renowned philosopher's genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness "[A] masterpiece. . . . The most thorough and rigorous account of the nature of reality to be published in a... -
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski 9781804991961
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.80FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical...