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Philip Ball

Author of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another 896 copies, 12 reviews
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color 345 copies, 10 reviews
Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water 237 copies, 3 reviews
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and… 215 copies, 6 reviews
The Elements: A Very Short Introduction 195 copies, 7 reviews
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral 190 copies, 1 review
The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature 179 copies, 4 reviews
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It 165 copies, 1 review
Molecules: A Very Short Introduction 144 copies, 1 review
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything 127 copies, 3 reviews
Shapes: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts 117 copies, 2 reviews
Flow: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts 103 copies, 2 reviews
Branches: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts 99 copies, 1 review
Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century 58 copies, 2 reviews

Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier 56 copies, 2 reviews

Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler 47 copies, 1 review

The Water Kingdom 42 copies, 1 review

Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does 40 copies

Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People 36 copies

Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen 34 copies

The Sun and Moon Corrupted 15 copies

Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry 15 copies, 1 review

Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is… 13 copies

Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges… 6 copies

Colour in the Making: From Old Wisdom to New Brilliance 5 copies

A Waste of Blood and Treasure: The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the… 2 copies

Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark 1 copy

Active Shooter Survival Manual 1 copy

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Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the… (Contributor) 699 copies, 12 reviews
The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall through the… (Introduction, some editions) 281 copies, 5 reviews
The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. IV (Contributor) 2 copies, 1 review
Time unwrapped : kings place : programme 2018 (Contributor) 1 copy

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