Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Couverture souple

Miodownik, Mark

 
9780544483941: Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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ISBN 10 : 0544483944 ISBN 13 : 9780544483941
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2015

Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Notable Book 2014 • Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
“A thrilling account of the modern material world.” —Wall Street Journal
"Miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind things such as paper, glass, chocolate, and concrete with an infectious enthusiasm." —Scientific American
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that renowned materials scientist Mark Miodownik constantly asks himself. Miodownik studies objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world. In Stuff Matters, Miodownik explores the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor to the foam in his sneakers. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.
"Stuff Matters is about hidden wonders, the astonishing properties of materials we think boring, banal, and unworthy of attention...It's possible this science and these stories have been told elsewhere, but like the best chocolatiers, Miodownik gets the blend right." —New York Times Book Review
 

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À propos de l?auteur

MARK MIODOWNIK is a professor of materials and society at University College London. He is the director of the Institute of Making, which is home to a materials library containing some of the most wondrous matter on earth.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0544483944
ISBN 13 
9780544483941
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  0544236041 ISBN 13 :  9780544236042
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
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