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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

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(26 reviews)

"A very fun, largely chronological journey through invisibility, beginning with myth and early magicians, ending with quantum physics." -- The New Yorker In this lively look at a timeless idea, Ball provides the first... See More

$2.99 $14.99 Save 80% Price verified one day ago
Science & Math

The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery

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(21 reviews)

From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements... See More

$22.65 $23.56 Price verified 11 hours ago
Engineering & Transportation

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China

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(84 reviews)

From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development... See More

$8.00 Price verified 21 hours ago
Science & Math

Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century

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(19 reviews)

Made to Measure introduces a general audience to one of today's most exciting areas of scientific research: materials science. Philip Ball describes how scientists are currently inventing thousands of new materials, ranging... See More

$34.99 $44.64 Save 22% Price verified 8 hours ago
Science & Math

Flow: Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

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(16 reviews)

From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water... See More

$9.99 $12.99 Save 23% Price verified one day ago
Politics & Social Sciences

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

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(137 reviews)

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... See More

$11.99 Price verified one day ago
Engineering & Transportation

H2O: A Biography of Water

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(150 reviews)

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water. The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its... See More

$3.99 Price verified one day ago
Science & Math

Shapes: Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

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(25 reviews)

Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see... See More

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