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, be
