Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
#1115 of 3,809 books · #87 in Science & Technology
Won the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2014).
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, from concrete and steel to denim and chocolate, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780544236042
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeWon(2014)
Other awarded books from Mark Miodownik
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