Today’s Audible Daily Deal is a great one for armchair scientists, chemists and engineers. The Audible edition of Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World [Unabridged] (4.5/5 stars) normally sells for $26.95 (or one Audible member credit) but TODAY ONLY (1/23/15) it’s being offered for $2.95 (or one Audible member credit).
Audible Members: don’t worry, you don’t have to use your Audible member credit(s) to buy discounted Audible audiobooks: you always have the option of using the “Buy for [price]” button instead of the “Buy With 1 Audible Credit” button.
From Amazon:
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend?
These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself.
A globally renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.
From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with materials. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.
One Amazon reviewer says:
“Until recently I had never heard the words ‘material science.’ Sue I knew there were all kinds of amazing things done to make stuff in our lives, stronger, thinner, cheaper, better, and more energy efficient. But, being a child of the 60’s I just figured this was ‘better living through chemistry.” ”
“Boy was I wrong. And how wonderfully Miodownik has opened this world up in this delightful book. By taking ten ordinary materials you see in one picture, he constructs a marvelous world. Each chapter is named for a property of the material, and each begins from a very simple point. Some talk about the history of the material, others about its chemical structure, and others with a story from his life.”
“Using this as a starting point, he takes you deeper and deeper into this material and what makes it marvelous. For example I had no idea there were 5 or 6 different crystal structures for chocolate and why some of them make better candy than others. The book is full of these delightful bits of information.”
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World [Unabridged]: get it today, while it’s the Audible Daily Deal!
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