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Ball, Philip, 1962-
Invisibility.
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Invisible
: the
dangerous
allure
of the
unseen
/ Philip Ball.
by
Ball, Philip, 1962-
The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Call #:
535.1 B187i
Subjects
Invisibility.
URL856
View the book talk - Philip Ball: "Invisible" on YouTube.
ISBN:
9780226238890 (hc.)
Description:
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
"Originally published by Bodley Head, 2013"--Title-page verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-310) and index.
Contents:
Why we disappear -- Occult forces -- Fear of obscurity -- Rays that bridge worlds -- Worlds without end -- All in the mind -- The people who can't be seen -- Vanishing point -- Bedazzled and confused --
Unseen
at last?
Summary:
If offered the chance - by cloak, spell or superpower - to be
invisible
, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also
dangerous
. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. As science writer Philip Ball reveals in this book, the story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it.
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