02669cam a2200337 4500 593677446 TxAuBib 20220528120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544237049 0544237048 B00E78IFV2 Amazon 4a5fc93e-4327-4760-9171-42ecb3b11084 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1546961 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Miodownik, Mark. Stuff Matters [Libby eBook] : Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World. HarperCollins, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 29MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<strong>In this New York Times Notable Book, "Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind things such as paper, glass, chocolate, and concrete with an infectious enthusiasm."—Scientific American</strong><br /> Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books<br /> 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 New York Times bestselling author Mark Miodownik constantly asks himself. Studying objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, he uncovers the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.<br /> 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, his stories of analysis will make you see stuff in a whole new way.<br /> "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."—The New York Times Book Review. Nonfiction. Chemistry. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-27 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/stuff-matters-4a5fc9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/stuff-matters-4a5fc9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/stuff-matters-4a5fc9?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID