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Biographical note
Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler and Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.Wonderful account of why music matters... one of the finest and most versatile of current non-fiction writers
Sunday Times
Exemplary... In contemplating the mysteries of music we are also contemplating the mystery of ourselves... Ball, thankfully, doesn't try to provide any easy answers, but rather sends the reader back to the music a better listener
Observer
This is a truly fascinating and eye-opening account of a phenomenon so commonplace we barely think about it, yet one which is also mind-bogglingly complicated. Once you've read <i>The Music Instinct</i>, you'll never listed to music the same way again
Independent
A musical experience in itself...his love of the subject is abundantly evident.. His mastery of many scientific disciplines is a delight
Daily Telegraph
Impressively engaging...it will be the rare music lover that does not come away without having learned many interesting things
Guardian