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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
35.00 NZD
40.00 (12% off)
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
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
35.00 NZD
40.00 (12% off)
Category: Non-fiction
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
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball
29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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 continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were three world-renowned physicists: Max Planck, p ...Show more
The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science by Philip Ball
75.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. U ...Show more
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery by Philip Ball
55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transf ...Show more
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
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
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