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Книги Philip Ball

Philip Ball - автор 4 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral, Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.

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Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral

Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? And why, during this time, did Europeans begin to build churches in a new style, at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic?

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How to Build a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are
How to Build a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in cloning, gene-splicing and neural downloading.After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness. Delving into humanity's deep evolutionary past to look at how compl...