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Curiosity : How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. To be curious was to delve into matters that didn't concern you - after all, the original sin stemmed from a desire for forbidden knowledge. Through curiosity our innocence was lost. Yet this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate t ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
Invisible - The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there's no need to feel guilty. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses ...Show more
Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there's no need to feel guilty. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses ...Show more
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does by Philip Ball
$65.00 AUD
Category: Photography
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 Book of Minds by Philip Ball
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Science now has plenty to say about the properties of mind. In recent decades, the mind - both human and otherwi ...Show more
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition. minor marks & foxing on pages. minor crease at spine. Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
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 grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
$59.95 AUD
Category: Science
Can we make a human being? That question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the homunculus of the medieval alchemists and the clay golem of Jewish legend to Frankenstein's monster and the mass-produced test-tube babies in "Brave New World". All of these efforts to c ...Show more
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