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Philip Ball

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43 books

Books

  1. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another 2003
  2. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color 1999
  3. The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It 2010
  4. Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything 2012
  5. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science 2006
  6. Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral 2008
  7. Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water, With a new preface 1999
  8. The Elements: A Very Short Introduction 2004
  9. The Self Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature 1999
  10. Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does 2016
  11. Shapes: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts 2008
  12. The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China
  13. Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen 2014
  14. Flow 2008
  15. Branches: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts 2008
  16. Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People 2011
27 more
  1. Beyond Weird 2018
  2. Molecules: A Very Short Introduction 2003
  3. 30-Second Physics 2016
  4. How Life Works 2023
  5. The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements 2002
  6. Nature's patterns 2011
  7. How to Grow a Human 2019
  8. 30-second quantum theory 2014
  9. Made to Measure 1999
  10. Serving The Reich The Struggle For The Soul Of Physics Under Hitler 2013
  11. More than meets the eye at the V&A 2000
  12. Stories of the invisible 2001
  13. H2O - Biographie des Wassers 2001
  14. ELEGANT SOLUTIONS 2005
  15. Why society is a complex matter 2012
  16. Serving the Reich 2014
  17. Designing the Molecular World 1996
  18. How to Build a Human 2019
  19. Beauty of Chemistry 2021
  20. The Modern Myths 2021
  21. Curiosidad 2013
  22. Book of Minds 2022
  23. Elegant Solutions 2007
  24. Alchemy 2025
  25. I am different 2005
  26. Material Computation Higher Integration In Morphogenetic Design 2012
  27. The Sun And Moon Corrupted 2008

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