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Your Life Is Manufactured [electronic resource] : How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

Tim Minshall2025
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From an award-winning and internationally-renowned expert, a wonderfully illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the world around us. 'Revelatory.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Fascinating.' THE TIMES 'Well-observed and enjoyably written.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An extraordinarily good read.' PROFESSOR DAVID SPIEGELHALTER, author of The Art of Statistics 'An illuminating and at times mind-boggling exploration of a global choreography that means I won't look at my kettle the same way again.' ZOE LAUGHLIN, presenter of BBC Four's How to Make *** We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from? There exists a nearly invisible, awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. The things we surround ourse...
Author:
Tim Minshall, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Faber & Faber, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (304 pages, 998323.0 Bytes)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571381043
Language:
English
BRN:
528727
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