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How to Invent Everything : A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North (2018, Hardcover)

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An NPR Best Book of 2018 "How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. Its essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly.". How would you survive?. With this book as your guide, youll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earths history.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10073522014X

ISBN-139780735220140

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038748240

Product Key Features

Book TitleHow to Invent Everything : a Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicPersonal & Practical Guides, Form / Trivia, Inventions, General, History

IllustratorYes

GenreRéférence, Technology & Engineering, Science, Humor

AuthorRyan North

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight26.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-003730

Reviews"Technically, we are all time travelers and we are all trapped. So, even if you happen to be scanning this blurb in what you perceive to be a 'normal' timeline, I heartily recommend you read this book cover to cover." --Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and author of Soonish "Hilarious and endlessly fascinating . . . For the vast general population that might decide to trust their lives to the FC3000, this book is potentially invaluable (and mighty entertaining) one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about life, the universe, and the fly wheel." -- Christian Science Monitor " How to Invent Everything is a genuinely entertaining bit of pop science writing, a brief history of human civilization with a wicked sense of humor and sci-fi set-up that make it as fun as it is informative. It's an essential read for would-be time travelers as well as anyone who really wants to know all the various uses for an alpaca." --Barnes & Noble Blog "Ryan North's latest is a handy guide for what to do if you get stuck in the Stone Age...The manual stands well on its own, even if you'll never set foot in a time machine." -- Popular Mechanics "The scale of How to Invent Everything is downright encyclopedic, and the voice, on every page, bubbles with humor. Reading it brought me back to all the afternoons I'd spent as a kid flipping through the big reference books in my local library, and then eagerly running home to tell anyone who'd listen what I'd learned. One of this book's great achievements is the way it so gracefully combines scholarly rigor with youthful wonder." -- Electric Literature "I recommend this to any time traveler or world builder who is in the market for a fresh civilization. This is certainly one of those 'better to have and not need rather than need and not have' books, folks. So run out and grab this." --Geeks of Doom "A must-read for any potential time traveler." -- Unbound Worlds "Stranded in a past century? Not to worry! Here's the entertaining and sometimes even hilarious book that will tell you everything you need to know." - Christian Science Monitor "A dazzling piece of work that's also genuinely hilarious." --Elan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays "A witty pop science guide intended for those demanding times when one needs to create a civilization from scratch... wry humor keeps the discussion lighthearted. North's 'survival guide' is a fun, thoughtful, and thoroughly accessible reference for curious readers, students, and world-builders, as well as wayward time travelers." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Packed with cool, fun, and useful stuff... a friendly and thought-provoking reference, just the thing for the bright kid in the family, to say nothing of the neighborhood time traveler." --Kirkus Reviews, Praise for How to Invent Everything : " 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? "Technically, we are all time travelers and we are all trapped. So, even if you happen to be scanning this blurb in what you perceive to be a 'normal' timeline, I heartily recommend you read this book cover to cover." --Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and author of Soonish "A dazzling piece of work that's also genuinely hilarious." --Elan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays "A witty pop science guide intended for those demanding times when one needs to create a civilization from scratch... wry humor keeps the discussion lighthearted. North's 'survival guide' is a fun, thoughtful, and thoroughly accessible reference for curious readers, students, and world-builders, as well as wayward time travelers." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Packed with cool, fun, and useful stuff... a friendly and thought-provoking reference, just the thing for the bright kid in the family, to say nothing of the neighborhood time traveler." --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Ryan North and his books: "[ Romeo and/or Juliet is] Shakespeare with even more sex, cryptography, time travel, and alternate endings than the original! Ryan North is the only writer I know who's smart enough and funny enough to pull this off." --Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy "[ Romeo and/or Juliet is a] ridiculously fun book. . . . Ryan North is awesome. . . . It is as hilarious and funny and strange as you would imagine . . . so crazy, so much fun. . . . It's fantastic." -- Book Riot "[ The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl ] was freaking hilarious . . . it's the closest thing the Marvel universe has to a classic screwball sitcom." --Nerdist "Reference mixed with irreverence--that's what makes To Be or Not to Be so much fun." -- Slate "Ryan North's The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 A.D. had me howling with laughter and passing the book around to whomever I could lay hands on to point out particularly good strips. Dinosaur Comics is an unlikely gem of a webcomic." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing " Machine of Death is a marvelous collection, riddled with intelligence, creative reach, and a frankness that makes the best use of the central gimmick." --Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Club " This Is How You Die is a brilliantly addictive book that reads like a series of existential, death-obsessed Twilight Zone episodes. Very highly recommended." --Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Praise for Ryan North and his books: "[ Romeo and/or Juliet is] Shakespeare with even more sex, cryptography, time travel, and alternate endings than the original! Ryan North is the only writer I know who's smart enough and funny enough to pull this off." --Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy "[ Romeo and/or Juliet is a] ridiculously fun book. . . . Ryan North is awesome. . . . It is as hilarious and funny and strange as you would imagine . . . so crazy, so much fun. . . . It's fantastic." -- Book Riot "[ The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl ] was freaking hilarious . . . it's the closest thing the Marvel universe has to a classic screwball sitcom." --Nerdist "Reference mixed with irreverence--that's what makes To Be or Not to Be so much fun." -- Slate "Ryan North's The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 A.D. had me howling with laughter and passing the book around to whomever I could lay hands on to point out particularly good strips. Dinosaur Comics is an unlikely gem of a webcomic." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing " Machine of Death is a marvelous collection, riddled with intelligence, creative reach, and a frankness that makes the best use of the central gimmick." --Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Club " This Is How You Die is a brilliantly addictive book that reads like a series of existential, death-obsessed Twilight Zone episodes. Very highly recommended." --Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal609

SynopsisAn 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." --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., 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. --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.

LC Classification NumberQC173.59.S65N6685