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Science 13 June 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5626, p. 1664
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086470
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Nota Bene: You Want To Build It with What?

A review by Marc Lavine

Materials and Design The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
Mike Ashby and Kara Johnson
Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier Science) Oxford, 2002. 348 pp. Paper, $49.99, £24.99. ISBN 0-7506-5554-2.

Demonstrating how important the selection of materials is to the design of objects, the authors discuss the impact of aspects from strength and toughness to texture and color.

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