John Mann works in the School of Chemistry at Queen”s University Belfast. He holds a BSc and Ph D from University College London and a DSc from London.
49 Ebooks by Philip Ball
Philip Ball: Elegant Solutions
Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the ‘beauty’ of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par …
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€26.99
John Mann: Turn On and Tune In
Timothy Leary’s advice to ‘tune in, turn on and drop out’ was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at …
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€32.99
Brian Clegg & Frank Close: 30-Second Quantum Theory
The bestselling 30-Second… series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.
Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into …
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€7.99
Philip Ball: Why Society is a Complex Matter
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of ma …
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€24.60
Philip Ball: La città del Sole e della Luna
Un raffinato racconto di conflitti planetari e personali. Avvincente e originale, La città del Sole e della Luna parla del confine incerto tra scienza e pseudo-scienza intrecciando in modo …
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€6.99
Philip Ball: HOW TO GROW HUMAN EB
A 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 own cells …
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€10.10
Philip Ball: Elements: A Very Short Introduction
This 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 …
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€9.34
Philip Ball: Shapes
Patterns are everywhere in nature – in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates …
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€17.68
Philip Ball: Flow
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 …
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€17.57
Philip Ball: Branches
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 …
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€19.76
Philip Ball: Elements: A Very Short Introduction
This 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 …
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€9.36
Philip Ball: Molecules: A Very Short Introduction
The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete. In this Very Short Introduction, Philip Ball …
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€9.35
Philip Ball: Flow
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 …
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€17.71
Philip Ball: Branches
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 …
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€19.83
Philip Ball: Shapes
Patterns are everywhere in nature – in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates …
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€17.67
Philip Ball: Bright Earth
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 – …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: Waste of Blood & Treasure
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 …
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€6.23
Philip Ball: Waste of Blood & Treasure
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 …
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€6.23
Philip Ball: H2O
The 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 …
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€3.99
Jim Al-Khalili: What’s Next?
Thought 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 future. …
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€8.49
Philip Ball: Sun And Moon Corrupted
What if you had developed a machine that generated energy for free and no one believed you? That is the lot of Kurt Neder, once Einstein’s accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his …
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€12.37
Philip Ball: Elegant Solutions
Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the ‘beauty’ of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par …
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€26.99
Philip Ball: Music Instinct Brain Shot
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, until …
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€14.99
Philip Ball: Unnatural
Can we make a human being? The question has been asked for many centuries, and has produced recipes ranging from the clay golem of Jewish legend to the mass-produced test-tube babies in Brave New …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: Universe of Stone
In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church – soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows. These were the first Gothic …
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€11.99
Philip Ball: Music Instinct
Why 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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€10.99
Philip Ball: Curiosity
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Through curiosity, our innocence was said to be lost. Yet this hasn’t deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: Serving the Reich
Serving 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 they …
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€9.99
Philip Ball: Critical Mass
Is 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 …
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€9.49
Philip Ball: Invisible
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 …
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€9.49
Philip Ball: The Devil”s Doctor
Philip 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 …
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€9.49
Philip Ball: Water Kingdom
Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China’s history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one …
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€10.99
Philip Ball: Beyond Weird
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 saf …
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€8.99
Ball Philip Ball: Patterns in Nature
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 …
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€24.80
Philip Ball: Designing the Molecular World
Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have cre …
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€33.99
Philip Ball: La invención del color
¿De dónde viene el color? ¿Cómo encuentran los pintores nuevas tonalidades y de qué manera influyen éstas en su obra? Desde la austera paleta de los griegos y la costosa pasión por el púrpura de los …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: El instinto musical
Si hay algo que compartan todas las culturas humanas, en todas las épocas y lugares, es la música. En este libro se argumenta que casi todos, aunque afirmemos tener ‘mal oído’, somos expertos en …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: Contra natura
Si una cena o una reunión languidecen, hay un tema de conversación que nunca falla: la concepción ‘no natural’ de seres humanos. ¿Qué opináis de la congelación de embriones? ¿Conocéis a alguien que …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: Al servicio del Reich
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 …
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€9.99
Philip Ball: Cómo crear un ser humano
A todos nos han contado esa historia de que ‘papá pone una semillita en mamá…’ y todos sabemos cómo termina: con un bebé. Sin embargo, ¿sabríamos decir realmente cómo un óvulo fecundado se convierte …
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€18.99
Philip Ball: Curiosidad
Hubo un tiempo en que la curiosidad era algo condenable: a fin de cuentas, por su culpa cometió Eva ese pecado original que al parecer aún estamos pagando. Y sin embargo, no es fácil frenar la …
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€12.99
Philip Ball: El peligroso encanto de lo invisible
¿Qué haría si pudiera volverse invisible? Seguramente, algo relacionado con el poder, con el dinero o con el sexo… o con las tres cosas. Un ensayo fascinante sobre la turbulenta relación del ser …
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€11.99
Philip Ball: Cuántica
Todos hemos oído hablar de la física cuántica, aunque realmente no sepamos ni qué es ni para qué sirve. Hasta hace poco, ni siquiera los físicos parecían tenerlo demasiado claro.
En las últimas …
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€10.99
Philip Ball: Made to Measure
Made to Measure introduces a general audience to one of today’s most exciting areas of scientific research: materials science. Philip Ball describes how scientists are currently inventing thousands o …
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€52.99
Philip Ball: Beauty of Chemistry
Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature.Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing …
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€125.08
Philip Ball: Serving the Reich
This historical analysis of Heisenberg, Planck, Debye, and other German physicists during WWII “is a stunning cautionary tale, well researched and told” (Choice). After World War …
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€22.53
