How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · September 17, 2019
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- Who it’s for
- A playful, practical handbook for rebuilding civilization from scratch.
- Genres
- Inventions, Practical Guides, Humor
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, September 17, 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?
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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.
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A playful, practical handbook for rebuilding civilization from scratch.
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- invent-the-basics charm
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- clear how-to framing
- dry, nerdy wit
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| Inventions | 51% |
|---|---|
| Humor | 39% |
| Practical Guides | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Humor & Trivia
- Practical Guides
- History of Technology
- Authors
- Ryan North
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- September 17, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Humor & Trivia