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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Through curiosity, our innocence was said to be lost. Ye this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of creation in particle accelerators, out of pure desire to know. There seems now to be no question too vast or ...Show more
Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$65.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses ...Show more
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
$5.00 AUD
Category: Environment & Science
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 World. Unnatural delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of 'anthropoeia' - the artificial creati ...Show more
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