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Stuff Matters - The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World (Paperback)
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Stuff Matters - The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World (Paperback)
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* * * Winner of the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science
Books * * * Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and
inspiring exploration of human creativity. 'Enthralling. A mission
to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our
lives' Guardian Everything is made of something... From the
everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new
materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the
inner workings of the man-made world, the miracles of craft,
design, engineering and ingenuity that surround us every day. From
the tea-cup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip,
from the ancient technologies of fabrics and ceramic to today's
self-healing metals and bionic implants, this is a book to inspire
amazement and delight at mankind's creativity. 'A certain sort of
madness may be necessary to pull off what he has attempted here,
which is a wholesale animation of the inanimate: Miodownik achieves
precisely what he sets out to' The Times 'Insightful, fascinating.
The futuristic materials will elicit gasps. Makes even the most
everyday substance seem exciting' Sunday Times 'Wonderful.
Miodownik writes well enough to make even concrete sparkle'
Financial Times 'I stayed up all night reading this book' Oliver
Sacks 'Expert, deftly written, immensely enjoyable' Observer Mark
Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at UCL,
scientist-in-residence on Dara O Briain's Science Club (BBC2) and
presenter of several documentaries, including The Genius of
Invention (BBC2). In 2010, he gave the Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures, broadcast on BBC4. He is Director of the UCL Institute of
Making, which is home to a materials library containing some of the
most wondrous matter on earth, and has collaborated to make
interactive events with many museums, such as Tate Modern, the
Hayward Gallery and Wellcome Collection. In 2014 Stuff Matters won
the Royal Society Winton Prize.
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