Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World Nature_Gift_Guide but it's much more than

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But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World Nature_Gift_Guide but it's much more thanIn 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 Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 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