Philip Ball: 25 books

Book cover of Curiosidad

Curiosidad

Por qué todo nos interesa

by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Hubo un tiempo en que la curiosidad era algo condenable: a fin de cuentas, por su culpa cometió Eva ese pecado original que al parecer aún estamos pagando. Y sin embargo, no es fácil frenar la curiosidad humana. Llevados por ella, hoy nos gastamos fortunas en construir un acelerador de partículas...
Book cover of Critical Mass

Critical Mass

How One Thing Leads to Another

by Philip Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006

Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was...
Book cover of Elegant Solutions

Elegant Solutions

Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

by Philip Ball
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

Devising and performing a scientific experiment is an art, and it is common to hear scientists talk about the 'beauty' of an experiment. What does this mean in chemistry, the experimental science par excellence? And what are the most beautiful chemical experiments of all time? This book offers ten...
Book cover of Turn On and Tune In

Turn On and Tune In

Psychedelics, Narcotics and Euphoriants

by John Emsley, Philip Ball, Philip Page
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019

Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with its medicinal uses being known to the...
Book cover of La invención del color
by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016

¿De dónde viene el color? ¿Cómo encuentran los pintores nuevas tonalidades y de qué manera influyen éstas en su obra? Desde la austera paleta de los griegos y la costosa pasión por el púrpura de los romanos hasta la gloriosa profusión del arte renacentista y la sobriedad cromática de Velázquez...
Book cover of The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
by Philip Ball
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004

This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author examines our relationship with matter, from the uncomplicated vision of the...
Book cover of El peligroso encanto de lo invisible
by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2016

¿Qué haría si pudiera volverse invisible? Seguramente, algo relacionado con el poder, con el dinero o con el sexo… o con las tres cosas. Un ensayo fascinante sobre la turbulenta relación del ser humano con lo invisible: desde los mitos griegos hasta las últimas tecnologías bélicas para no...
Book cover of Contra natura

Contra natura

Sobre la idea de crear seres humanos

by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Si una cena o una reunión languidecen, hay un tema de conversación que nunca falla: la concepción "no natural" de seres humanos. ¿Qué opináis de la congelación de embriones? ¿Conocéis a alguien que haya recurrido a una madre de alquiler? ¿Será ya posible clonar a personas? ¿Y...
Book cover of El instinto musical

El instinto musical

Escuchar, pensar y vivir la música

by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Si hay algo que compartan todas las culturas humanas, en todas las épocas y lugares, es la música. En este libro se argumenta que casi todos, aunque afirmemos tener "mal oído", somos expertos en música porque nuestro cerebro está muy bien equipado para entenderla, descodificarla, darle...
Book cover of Al servicio del Reich

Al servicio del Reich

La física en tiempos de Hitler

by Philip Ball
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Los primeros científicos que experimentaron con la física atómica tuvieron la "suerte" de vivir unos tiempos interesantes. En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, la ciencia alemana se convirtió en un asunto político: Heisenberg, Planck, Einstein y Debye, entre muchos otros, tuvieron que definirse....
Book cover of Why Society is a Complex Matter

Why Society is a Complex Matter

Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

by Philip Ball
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012

Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological...
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