Beyond Measure
The Hidden History of Measurement
$32.94
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
22 August 2023
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571354221 |
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| ISBN-10: | 057135422X |
| Author: | James Vincent |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 22 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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James Vincent
James Vincent is a journalist and writer from London who has worked and written for numerous publications, including the London Review of Books, Financial Times, Independent, Wired, New Statesman and others. He is currently a senior reporter for The Verge. Beyond Measure is his first book.
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