Thanks Heffers Bookshop for putting ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ in a giftbox … and in the shop window!
#books #Christmas2025 #giftideas #cambridge
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06.12.2025 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, @suelibrarian.bsky.social! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
#booksky #books #nonfiction #manufacturing #christmas
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03.12.2025 06:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Is China winning the innovation race?
Once the world’s factory, Beijing’s relentless focus on R&D means the country has become the world’s laboratory
Is China winning the innovation race?
Is China winning the innovation race? via @FT
Well worth a read, IMHO.
#manufacturing #innovation #china
on.ft.com/4rmPe7P
29.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
“The greatest books of 2025” - that’s quite a claim … but I am delighted that “Your Life is Manufactured” is on the list!
#manufacturing #bookrecommendations
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16.11.2025 10:00 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating guests and wildly different books. I'll be reading @timminshall.bsky.social's "Your Life is Manufactured" ASAP; inventions + supply chain stuff are amazing. Yes, people need to know a LOT more about how their world works (+ helping explain it is my job too!). Thanks as always! #librarian
11.11.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
Today at 3pm, Hayaatun Sillem joins BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read to discuss Tim Minshall (@timminshall.bsky.social)’s YOUR LIFE IS MANUFACTURED.
🎧 Listen live or catch up here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
10.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The team at @faberbooks.bsky.social have been absolutely amazing to work with. ⭐️
09.11.2025 11:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Master's Book Club - Churchill College
Join us to hear from Churchill College Fellow Prof. Tim Minshall in conversation with the Master of Churchill College, Prof. Sharon Peacock, as they discuss his book: Your Life is Manufactured: How We...
Very much looking forward to discussing my book ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ with the wonderful Professor Sharon Peacock on 4th November at Churchill College.
Tickets are free -book via www.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/10570/
#booksky #making #manufacturing
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28.10.2025 21:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Superb.
26.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Tim” tops the most popular author first name leaderboard at this year’s Wells Festival of Literature.
#booksky #bookfestivals
26.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks @sixsimon.bsky.social!
21.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Simple #autumn pleasures
17.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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15.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BBC Inside Science - The science behind autism - BBC Sounds
What do we know about the causes of autism?
Many thanks to @BBCRadio4 Inside Science for having me on to talk about #manufacturing on #nationalmanufacturingday #NMD2025
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25.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📘 Your Life Is Manufactured by @timminshall.bsky.social has been longlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year 2025!
Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social a brilliant deep dive into how the things we use every day are made.
#FTBookAward #UnitedAgentsBooks
18.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re delighted to see Tim Minshall’s Your Life Is Manufactured shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors 🎉
13.08.2025 15:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
'An eye-opening journey through the world of manufacturing.'
Congratulations to Tim Minshall, author of Your Life Is Manufactured, which has been longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025: www.ft.com/bookaward
18.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This week we were very happy to announce the shortlist for this year's Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. From the hidden world of manufacturing to botanists under siege during the Second World War find out more about the six superb books: #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
15.08.2025 10:19 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: How can we manufacture a better world?
ISEP CEO Sarah Mukherjee MBE sat down with @timminshall.bsky.social @ifmcambridge.bsky.social to discuss:
🎙️ His personal & professional journey
🎙️ The critical need for industrial sustainability in manufacturing
🎙️ And more
pod.fo/e/313357
14.08.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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