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Book SynopsisTHE 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
