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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are by Philip BALL; Philip Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
How to Grow a Human - Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 used to grow clumps of new neurons - essentially mini-brains - Philip Ball begins to examine the concept ...Show more
The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science by Philip Ball
$64.99 AUD
Category: 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 Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens by Philip Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world of experience has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries. How do we even begin to think about ‘minds’ that are not human? That is the question explored in this ground-breaking book. Award-winning science writer Philip Ball argues ...Show more
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery by Philip Ball
$49.99 AUD
Category: 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
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