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# Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water

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## Customer Reviews

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    science for us non-scientists
  

*by O***D on Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2000*

Philip Ball, a precocious young editor and writer at the British science journal Nature, with whose  work I was previously unfamiliar, is apparently the hot new thing among popular science writers.  Based on the evidence of this book, it's easy to see why folks like him so much.Ball's thesis and method are apparent from the title.  He sets out to demonstrate how central water is to  our existence and he does so by tracing it's life history from the Big Bang right up to today.  The  broad arc of his story allows him to demonstrate a truly remarkable command of disparate topics,  ranging from Cosmology to History, Geology to Mythology, and Chemistry to Politics.  For someone  with my embarrassingly limited science background, there was a little too much theory to absorb in  one reading, but any technical confusion is more than made up for by the wealth of non-scientific  information he provides.  The book is packed with colorful anecdotes, interesting vignettes and  fascinating factoids.  If it's too much to say that you learn something new on every page, it certainly  seemed to be true.If I have one complaint with the book, it is that Ball has done such a good job of demonstrating how  ubiquitous and remarkable water is, that by the time he gets to the dire environmental warnings about  our wastefulness that conclude the book, it's sort of hard to take them too seriously.  This section also  tends to turn the biography into a bit of a melodramatic cliffhanger.  He can hardly be blamed for not  knowing water's ultimate fate, but there is a certain lack of closure to his tale.There are a number of popular science writers I particularly recommend:  Jacob Bronowski (The  Ascent of Man), Daniel Boorstin (The Discoverers), Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a  Biology Watcher), Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the  Evolution of Human Intelligence ), Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb), Stephen  Hawking (A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes) and Thomas Kuhn (The  Structure of Scientific Revolutions) have all written classics and among more  recent authors Timothy Ferris (Coming of Age in the Milky Way) and David Quammen (The Flight of  the Iguana : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature) are especially good.  I don't know that Philip  Ball belongs in such exalted company already, but I'm certainly interested to see what he writes about  next.GRADE: B+

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    A great book. Dated by some of the author's predictions ...
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2017*

A great book.  Dated by some of the author's predictions on climate issues, but fascinating to get a reminder of what we were thinking in the early aughts. Overall, a wonderful history of water.  My favorite parts are those that dive deeper into the structure of water.  I'm a teacher and I picked up a few more analogies to use in class! I recommend the read!

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    I have a first edition and in this one, ...
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2017*

I have a first edition and in this one, the text wasn't very clear and it seemed less well put together.

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