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Beyond Weird - Quantum Physics by Philip Ball
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
PHYSICS 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 safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.' Richard Feynman wrote this in 1965 - the year he w ...Show more
Beyond Weird ... Quantum Physics ... by Philip Ball
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
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 quantum ...Show more
Branches: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball
$19.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them. Many patterns in nature show a branching form - trees, river deltas, blood vessel ...Show more
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular 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
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
$38.00 NZD
Category: Art
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
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
Curiosity : How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
$54.99 NZD
Category: Popular 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
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Through curiosity, our innocence was said to be lost. Ye this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of creation in particle accelerators, out of pure desire to know. There seems now to be no question too vast or ...Show more
Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Second-hand, paperback in good condition. Handwritten message on inside front cover. 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 establishmen ...Show more
Flow: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts by Philip Ball
$19.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex dynamics of flow that structures our ...Show more
Invisible - The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
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 (Nature Freelance writer and consultant editor for Nature Freelance writer and consultant editor for Nature Freelance writer and consultant editor for Nature Freelance writer and consultant editor for Nature)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
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 c ...Show more