How to Grow a Human, Ball Philip

Автор: Ball Philip
Название: Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
ISBN: 022655838X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226558387
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 17690.00 T
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Описание: "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don't seem obvious or right at all--or even possible.

An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means--and what it doesn't. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge--about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn't a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called "weird," it's us.

Автор: Ball, Philip
Название: H2O: A Biography Of Water
ISBN: 0753810921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753810927
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 13150.00 T
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Описание: The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.

Автор: Ball Philip
Название: Unnatural
ISBN: 1847921523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847921529
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 17600.00 T
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Описание: Delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of `anthropoeia` - the creation of artificial people - to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology, and the soul.

Автор: Ball Philip
Название: Music Instinct
ISBN: 0099535440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099535447
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? And how do we make sense of musical sound? This title explores how the research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music.

Автор: Ball Philip
Название: Bright Earth
ISBN: 0099507137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099507130
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14950.00 T
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Описание: Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?

Автор: Ball, Philip
Название: Critical mass
ISBN: 0099457865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099457862
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9670.00 T
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Описание: Is there a `physics of society`? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, this title shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals.