The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

ISBN-13: 9780099535447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str.

Philip Ball

Opis

In 'The Music Instinct' Philip Ball provides a comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known and what is still unknown about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity.

Recenzje

Wonderful account of why music matters... one of the finest and most versatile of current non-fiction writers Sunday Times

O autorze

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.