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Stuff Matters

The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

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Stuff Matters

By: Mark Miodownik
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, read by Daniel Weyman.

A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists

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, and 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.

 Chemistry Engineering Industrial & Manufacturing Political Science Politics & Government Science

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Too much listening to Cosmos, stars, black holes, and galaxies. And so are string theory, quarks, gluons, leptons, hadrons....This is one of different from these subjects. This is all about everyday things that we always wanted to know. More of such books on other scientific disciplines, like Condensed Matter Physics and Engineering are now required.

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Truly an eye opening book.
At first I wanted a nice science book to read,
I never thought how interesting this one would end up being one of the greats.

In sort, This book is a collection of stories centering around material science.
You can feel that the writer prioritized the story above the knowledge, the knowledge is the cream while the stories are the cake. you come for the cream, but stay for the cake.
truly a marvelous book.

Why You, yes you should try it

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Touches base on multiple materials that are present in our everyday lives. The summary truly is brilliant. If you want to know more about elements, materials and the way they interact with each other. I highly recommend this audible. The narrator is fantastic as well!

Comprehensive and a great summary

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Mark Miodownik explains material science in a simple and memorable way using a novelistic style that captures the listener’s interest. Recommended to anyone curious to understand the materials world we live in.

Science book cum novel!

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For me, a science lover, this book is one of the best.
Not only the contents, the pronunciation of the reader is very good and easy to understand even for a foreigner.
I bought both a reading data from audible, text for my kindle.
I say again, I love it.

I love it.

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