Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

This book is for those who want to decipher the material world we have constructed and find out where these materials came from, how they work, and what they say about us.

The library is now located and maintained at the Institute of Making which is part of University College London. You could rebuild our civilization from the contents of this library, and destroy it too.

he first stapler was hand-made for King Louis XV of France with each staple inscribed with his insignia.