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Loading... How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler (edition 2018)by Ryan North (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Such fun! North presses a lot of very interesting (and potentially useful) information into pithy prose packaged precisely for casual reading. The format will accommodate you whether you want to go from cover to cover or skip around. ( ) This is a humerous and educational book. The reader learns details of technology from crop rotation to machines. Since the book is aimed at recreating modern society, many of the ideas are explained on a scale that can't be reasonably implemented by a single individual. However, the information is interesting in its own right, and a determined reader could scale down some of the technologies to test in their backyards. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:An NPR Best Book of 2018 "How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." ā??Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If? The only book you need if you're going back in time What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll surviveā??and thriveā??in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for grantedā??from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . No library descriptions found. |
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