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- Product code: 19247
- ISBN: 0434011355,
ISBN13: 9780434011353,
660 pages, hardback
Published by Heinemann on 2004
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Description of Critical Mass: How One Things Leads to Another |
An exploration of the age-old question: are there any "laws of nature" that guide human affairs? Is there anything inevitable about the ways humans behave and organize themselves? Have we complete freedom in creating our societies or are we trapped by "human nature"?
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Reviews'Engaging'
Daily Telegraph
‘More than a book, this in an intellectual curiosity’
Independent on Sunday
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About Philip Ball |
Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and a Consultant Editor for Nature. He worked as an editor for physical sciences at Nature for over ten years, where his brief extended from biochemistry to quantum physics and materials science. His writings on science for the popular press have covered topical issues ranging from cosmology to the future of molecular biology.
Philip is the author of several popular books on science, including works on the nature of water, pattern formation in the natural world, colour in art, and the science of social and political philosophy. He has written widely on the interactions between art and science, and has delivered lectures to scientific and general audiences at venues ranging from the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) to the NASA Ames Research Center and the London School of Economics.
He writes regularly for Nature Science Update, and has contributed to popular and general publications including New Scientist, Nature, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, and New Statesman. He has broadcast on many occasions on BBC radio and TV, and on radio stations in the USA. He is also Science Writer in Residence at the Department of Chemistry, University College London.
Philip has a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol.
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