Your Life Is Manufactured - Tim Minshall

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 ''Intensely readable.'' IRISH TIMES''Well-observed and enjoyably written.'' FINANCIAL TIMES''An extraordinarily good read.''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 ourselves with take surprising and often byzantine journeys to reach us – be it the thousands of litres of water needed to make a single pair of jeans or the components of our smartphones travelling over six times around the world to reach us. From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, Tim Minshall traces these journeys to reveal the hidden world of manufacturing. Charting how this world cam
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