Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?
The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.
Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that... Læs mere
Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.
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.
A Military history of the 1793-95 campaign in Flanders and the Netherlands.
Philip Ball explores the science of the branching patterns we see in nature, revealing that there is much more to these networks than meets the eye.... Læs mere
This book aims to stimulate the reader to think anew about some of the relationships and differences between science and art, and to challenge some of the common notions about particular 'famous experiments'.
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... Læs mere
Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg. After the war most scientists in Germany... Læs mere