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 ancient element has so dramatically...

'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...

The Music Instinct von Ball, Philip

Patterns in Nature von Ball, Philip

Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at...

An examination of what it will mean to be human as new scientific developments complicate the matter of the distinct self through gene editing, cloning and neural downloading. von Ball, Philip

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water. von Ball, Philip

The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements. von Ball, Philip

"H2O: Biographie des Wassers" von Philip Ball ist eine faszinierende Erkundung der zentralen Rolle, die Wasser in der Geschichte unseres Planeten und in unserem täglichen Leben spielt. Ball beleuchtet die chemischen und physikalischen...

Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different von Ball, Philip

Science Book 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 brilliantly illuminates how many different...

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 brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there...