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THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR
NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.

''A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.''
ROBERT MACFARLANE

''Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.''
TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up

''Beyond Measure offers, with much intellectual flair and style, a bracing new history: how the once innocent urge to quantification took over our lives, our sense of ourselves and the world.''
PANKAJ MISHRA

The exact value of this book is hard to quantify. Weighty, precise and satisfyingly obsessive, it's also an absolute pleasure to read.'
SIMON GARFIELD, bests

Beyond Measure

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 1 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571354221
      978-0571354221
      ISBN-10 057135422X
      Also in:
      Science & Nature Philosophy of science Scientific standards, measurement etc

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR
      NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
      FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

      A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.

      ''A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.''
      ROBERT MACFARLANE

      ''Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.''
      TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up

      ''Beyond Measure offers, with much intellectual flair and style, a bracing new history: how the once innocent urge to quantification took over our lives, our sense of ourselves and the world.''
      PANKAJ MISHRA

      The exact value of this book is hard to quantify. Weighty, precise and satisfyingly obsessive, it's also an absolute pleasure to read.'
      SIMON GARFIELD, bests

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