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How to Invent Everything

How to Invent Everything 1

A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

by Ryan North
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/09/2019
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"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --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 survive--and thrive--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 granted--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. . . better.

ISBN:
9780735220157
9780735220157
Category:
History of engineering & technology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-09-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
209.3x138.94x31.75mm
Weight:
0.39kg
Ryan North

Ryan North is a New York Times bestselling author and cartoonist. His previous Shakespeare book, To Be or Not To Be, became Kickstarter's most-funded publishing project when it launched.

North writes the popular webcomic Dinosaur Comics and the critically acclaimed Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, and he wrote the first thirty-five issues of Adventure Time, for which he won an Eisner Award.

That's like the Oscars of comics! There's a gala and everything. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Jenn, and their dog, Noam Chompsky.

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The conceit of pretending I was a time traveller lost in time really drew me in and kept me reading. Lots of interesting stuff about things humans invented, with a lot of jumour, especially about dogs (breed you own good boys and girls from wolves in just 18 years!), pizza & beer (teaching you how to grow yeast to make these things), and how long it took humans to apply concepts we already knew to other applications (like we had all the technologies for hot air balloons four-thousand years before human flight). If you're interested in a heavily summarised (philosophy down to a few pages of analogies about high-fives) pop-science history of everything we as a species have ever invented, this is the book for you!

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