<div><div><B>A <I>New York Times</I> bestseller<BR><br> “A thrilling account of the modern material world . . . [Miodownik] changes the way one looks at the world.” — <I>Wall Street Journal</I><BR><br> “I stayed up all night reading this book. Miodownik writes with such knowledge, such enthusiasm, such a palpable love for his subject.” — Oliver Sacks</B><BR><br> 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 renowned materials scientist Mark Miodownik constantly asks himself. 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.<BR><br> In <I>Stuff Matters</I>, Miodownik entertainingly 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. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, <I>Stuff Matters </I>will make you see stuff in a whole new way.</div></div>