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Books By Philip Ball - Author

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including How Life Works, The Book of Minds, H2O: A Biography of Water, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, The Music Instinct, and Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball was the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He lives in London.

Author's Website: https://www.philipball.co.uk

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How Life Works

Philip Ball

Paperback

Pre-order. 6th March 2025

£11.69 £12.99

Beautiful Experiments

Philip Ball

Hardback

Not Available

The Book of Minds

Philip Ball

Paperback

In Stock

£11.69 £12.99

The Modern Myths

Philip Ball

Paperback

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Made to Measure

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£42.00

The Elements

Philip Ball

Hardback

In Stock

£22.50 £25.00

Beauty of Chemistry

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (PDF)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£100.00

The Beauty of Chemistry

Philip Ball

Hardback

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£40.50 £45.00

Designing the Molecular World

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£25.00

Neither Up nor Down

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£31.50 £35.00

How to Grow a Human

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£8.99 £9.99

Beyond Weird

Philip Ball

Paperback

In Stock

£11.69 £12.99

30-Second Quantum Theory

Philip Ball

Paperback

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The Water Kingdom

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£11.69 £12.99

Waste of Blood & Treasure

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£4.99

Patterns in Nature

Philip Ball

Hardback

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Elegant Solutions

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£247.50

Invisible

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£15.29 £16.99

Serving the Reich

Philip Ball

Hardback

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Serving the Reich The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£14.39 £15.99

Curiosity

Philip Ball

Paperback

Not Available

Sun And Moon Corrupted

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£9.97

Unnatural

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£14.39 £15.99

Shapes

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

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£13.99

The Music Instinct

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£11.69 £12.99

Music Instinct

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (PDF)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£42.54

Branches

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (PDF)

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£12.99

Flow

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (PDF)

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£13.99

The Sun and Moon Corrupted

Philip Ball

Paperback

Not Available

Bright Earth

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£15.29 £16.99

The Devil's Doctor

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£17.09 £18.99

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

Paperback

In Stock

£9.89 £10.99

Elements: A Very Short Introduction

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (PDF)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£7.49

Molecules

Philip Ball

Paperback

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£8.99 £9.99

Molecules: A Very Short Introduction

Ball and 1 more

Ebook (Epub)

Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply.

£7.49

The Self-Made Tapestry

Philip Ball

Paperback

Not Available

Life's Matrix

Philip Ball

Paperback

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H2O

Philip Ball

Paperback

In Stock

£9.89 £10.99