![]() ![]() The futuristic materials will elicit gasps. Stuff Matters reveals the miracles of craft, design, engineering and ingenuity that surround us every day.įrom ancient technologies to those shaping our future, this is a book to inspire amazement and delight at mankinds material creativity.Ī 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 The extraordinary new materials: self-healing metals, silicon chips and bionic implants paving the future. ![]() ![]() The everyday objects: paper clips, the textiles that make your clothes and the cups you drink from. This book is a page turner and a keeper, high praise indeed. 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an 'entertaining discussion of the various ways our lives are enriched by fluids (The Wall Street Journal). Credit to Stuff Matters for this new lens on the world of materials. I stayed up all night reading this book Oliver Sacks So it doesn’t really matter what I use now, I can’t help pausing for a moment and thinking about the stuff its made from. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives Guardian * * * Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * *įROM THE TEA-CUP TO THE JET ENGINE, STUFF MATTERS IS A UNIQUE, INSPIRING EXPLORATION OF HUMAN CREATIVITY.Įnthralling. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |