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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.<i>Unnatural</i> is a beautifully written, deeply intelligent book that will force every reader to rethink at least some of their preconceptions
- Jim Endersby, Sunday Telegraph
The two cultures of science and art are not antagonists, divergent in their aims and mutually unintelligible: they happily cohabit inside Ball's compendious, eclectic head.
- Peter Conrad, Observer
A brave, sane and intellectually nimble account of a topic which only gets more ambiguous with each scientific advance. <i>Unnatural</i> is fascinating and engaging, and a polemic only for cool heads and open hearts when dealing with issues of such serious and profound complexity
- Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Meticulous, witty and sometimes provocative
- Patrick Skene Catling, Sunday Times
Labelling Ball a science writer sells his writing short, for its value lies above all in a range that dissolves the awkward silences between science and the larger culture of which it is part.
- Marek Kohn, Independent