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  • UNIVERSE OF STONE
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    UNIVERSE OF STONE
    PHILIP BALL
    "[A] lively biography of Chartres Cathedral . . . Ball's account of its construction reveals fascinating details." — The New Yorker Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immens...

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  • A WASTE OF BLOOD & TREASURE
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    A WASTE OF BLOOD & TREASURE
    PHILIP BALL
    With the Netherlands overrun by French Republican forces, the British and Russian governments sent an allied army of 48,000 men under the Duke of York to liberate the country and restore the House of Orange.The largest operation mounted by Pitt's ministry during the French Revolutionary Wars, the amphibious expedition involved the first ever direct cooperation between British a...

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  • HOW LIFE WORKS
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    HOW LIFE WORKS
    PHILIP BALL
    “Bold and intriguing.”—Wall Street Journal • “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “Offers plenty of food for thought.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   “Ball’s marvelous book is both wide-ranging and deep. . . . I could not put it down.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Empero...

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  • BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS
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    BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS
    PHILIP BALL
    A New Scientist Best Book of 2023 Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares.   This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used throughout the ages to study—and to change—the worl...

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  • THE BOOK OF MINDS
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    THE BOOK OF MINDS
    PHILIP BALL
    Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?   Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and w...

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  • THE ELEMENTS
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    THE ELEMENTS
    PHILIP BALL
    From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements.   The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ba...

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  • THE MODERN MYTHS
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    THE MODERN MYTHS
    PHILIP BALL
    With 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 nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by...

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  • HOW TO GROW A HUMAN
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    HOW TO GROW A HUMAN
    PHILIP BALL
    Two summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball’s arm and turned it into a rudimentary “mini-brain.” The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life—but whos...

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  • BEYOND WEIRD
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    BEYOND WEIRD
    PHILIP BALL
    “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obv...

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  • THE WATER KINGDOM
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    THE WATER KINGDOM
    PHILIP BALL
    From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China’s culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and po...

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  • INVISIBLE
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    INVISIBLE
    PHILIP BALL
    If offered the chance—by cloak, spell, or superpower—to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. As esteemed science writer Philip Ball r...

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  • SERVING THE REICH
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    SERVING THE REICH
    PHILIP BALL
    The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg—and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and ’40s. After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Se...

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  • CURIOSITY
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    CURIOSITY
    PHILIP BALL
    With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science—that it’s not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet there was a time when curiosity was condemned. Neither Pandora nor Eve could resist the dangerous allure of unanswered questions, and a...

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  • CRITICAL MASS
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    CRITICAL MASS
    PHILIP BALL
    Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a th...

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  • THE DEVIL'S DOCTOR
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    THE DEVIL'S DOCTOR
    PHILIP BALL
    "A vibrant, original portrait of a man of contradictions," the Renaissance-era Swiss father of modern medicine ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, ...

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  • LA INVENCIÓN DEL COLOR
    LA INVENCIÓN DEL COLOR
    BALL PHILIP
    La química y el poder artístico del color se han aliado siempre en una simbiótica relación que ha determinado sus respectivas evoluciones. Desde la austera paleta de los griegos y la costosa pasión por el púrpura de los romanos hasta la gloriosa profusión del arte renacentista y la sobriedad cromática de Velázquez y Rembrandt; desde las tempranas incursiones de los pintores rom...
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    $450.00

  • AL SERVICIO DEL REICH LA FISICA EN TIEMPOS DE HITLER
    AL SERVICIO DEL REICH LA FISICA EN TIEMPOS DE HITLER
    BALL PHILIP
    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: Heisenberg, Planck, Einstein y Debye, entre muchos otros, tuvieron que definirse. Como científicos y como personas. Y, para algunos de ellos, la definición no fue la mis...
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    $445.00