About the book: 2016 / Professor at the University of London Mark Medovnik did an almost impossible thing - he wrote not only an accessible, but also a witty book about a variety of materials – a kind of “Entertaining materials science”. A story about new chemical compounds, a thoughtful comparative analysis of wine glasses, the steel of samurai swords, composite materials for transplantation, concrete structures of ultra-modern airports - the author writes about all of this with brilliance and deep knowledge of the subject. The book “What Is It Made Of” is an excellent example of popular science of the highest level, a real find for the inquisitive reader.