Beyond Measure av James Vincent

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<p><b><i>THE TIMES </i>SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR<br><i>NEW YORKER </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<br>FINALIST FOR THE <i>LOS ANGELES TIMES </i>BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY</b><br><br><font><b>A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you </b><b>anew.</b></font><br><br>''A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.''<br><b>ROBERT MACFARLANE<br></b><br>''Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.''<br><b>TIM HARFORD</b>, bestselling author of <i>How to Make the World Add Up</i><br><br><i>''Beyond Measure</i> 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.''<br><b>PANKAJ MISHRA<br></b><br>¿The exact value of this book is hard to quantify. Weighty, precise and satisfyingly obsessive, it¿s also an absolute pleasure to read.¿<br><b>SIMON GARFIELD</b>, be