num_pages: 272
description: An adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us packed with surprising stories and fascinating science. Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik a globally-renowned materials scientist has spent his life exploring In this book he examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper.
language: English
title: Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt