Stuff Matters: The Amazing Materials That Shape Our Man-Made Planet is a book on the incredible materials that have shaped our world (Paperback)

: The Amazing Materials That Shape Our Man-Made Planet is a book on the incredible materials that have shaped our world (Paperback)

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In this New York Times Notable Book, "Imprint Miodownik, a materials researcher, clarifies the set of experiences and science behind things like paper, glass, chocolate, and cement with an irresistible enthusiasm"??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??- Scientific American is a publication that publishes research.

The Winton Prize for Science Books was awarded to him by the Royal Society.

Glass is translucent for a reason. What makes flexible stretchy? For what reason does any material look and acts how it does? These are such inquiries that prestigious materials researcher New York Times top-rated creator Mark Miodownik continually asks himself. Concentrating on objects as conventional as an envelope and as startling as substantial material, he reveals the intriguing mysteries that hold together our actual world.

His investigation descriptions will make you see things in a whole different light, as they are filled with compelling anecdotes of the supernatural happenings of design that permeate our lives.

"Stuff Matters is about secret ponders, the surprising properties of materials we think exhausting, cliché, and scandalous of attention...It's conceivable this science and these accounts have been told somewhere else, yet like the best chocolatiers, Miodownik gets the mix right.

Stuff Matters: The Amazing Materials That Shape Our Man-Made Planet is a book on the incredible materials that have shaped our world (Paperback)

About the Author

MARK MIODOWNIK is the director of University College London's Institute of Making and a material and social educator. His debut book, Stuff Matters, was a New York Times bestseller that earned the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award for Novels and the British Society's Winton Prize. from the Royal Society, was his first book. Mark writes for the Guardian regularly has regular BBC broadcasts and was named one of the top 100 researchers in the UK by the Times.

Acclaim For…

"Stuff Matters is about secret ponders, the remarkable properties of materials we think exhausting, trite, and shameful of attention...It's conceivable this science and these accounts have been told somewhere else, however like the best chocolatiers, Miodownik gets the mix right." - "[Ordinary items] have observed their artist in Mark Miodownik," writes the New York Times Book Review. An intriguing record from the realm of cutting-edge materials... Despite my reluctance to examine it, I thought that materials science was tedious and uninteresting. Stuff Matters has adjusted my perspective; presently, I end up running my fingers along with things and murmuring. Mr. Miodownik's exuberant, articulate book changes the way one gander at the world." - Wall Street Journal "Midownik jumps into each detail...[with] euphoric interest." - Entertainment Weekly "Miodownik, a materials researcher, clarifies the set of experiences and science behind things like paper, glass, chocolate, and cement with an irresistible excitement." - Scientific American "Materials researcher Miodownik interlaces clever vignettes of day to day existence in London with subatomic conduct to clarify the accomplishments of designing that brought us samurai blades, high rises, pool balls, and even chocolate. From concrete in Roman design to iota thick graphene, Miodownik expands on a verifiable system to provide perusers with a thought of future applications. Smart truly, Stuff Matters might leave you taking a gander at windows rather than through them." - Discover "Stuff Matters makes the hackneyed objects of our day to day existences into an unending wellspring of miracle, dreams, and probability." - Salon "Great storytelling...fascinating...a brilliant book regarding a matter that is generally seldom expounded on." - Popular Science "Engaging and informative...[Stuff Matters] follows through on both the logical and individual levels. Its stories, welcoming exposition, and strange part titles present both the writer and his field of examination, materials science." - Dallas Morning News "I remained up the entire evening perusing this book. Miodownik composes with such information, such excitement, such an unmistakable love for his subject." - Oliver Sacks created hallucinations. " This is an intriguing and useful chronicle of the stuff of our daily life, including concrete, chocolate, paper, and porcelain." - Penny Le Couteur, coauthor of Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History "It is something uncommon for a genuine researcher to have the option to clarify how things work so obviously to the layman and surprisingly more extraordinary to do as such in such an engaging design. Nobody who peruses this book will take a gander at the world a remarkable same once more." - Kate Ascher is the writer of The Works, The Heights, and The Way to Go, among other works. [A] extraordinary collection of materials that have shaped the modern world... Miodownik composes well enough to create even the most significant shimmer." - From the Financial Times "A deftly constructed, immensely fascinating small novel," says the author. - Bystander (UK) "[Miodownik] manages to make even the mundane appear fascinating." - The Sunday Times (UK) "Enchanting... a mission to re-familiarize us with the miracles of the texture that supports our lives." - Guardian (UK) "Entertaining...These materials make captivating perusing." - Materials Today (UK) "An incredible glance at

 Item Details

ISBN: 9780544483941

ISBN-10: 0544483944

Distributer: Mariner Books

Pages: 272

Language: English