How To
absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems from randall munroe of xkcd
$24.90
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
7 September 2020
Summary
How To: The Wildly Impractical Guide to Everyday Life
Randall Munroe is … ‘Nerd royalty’ Ben Goldacre
‘Totally brilliant’ Tim Harford
‘Laugh-out-loud funny’ Bill Gates
‘Wonderful’ Neil Gaiman
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473680340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473680344 |
| Author: | Randall Munroe |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 271g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Fascinating
Munroe is the perfect guy to take on a project like this… a wonderful guide for curious minds - BILL GATES
Ridiculous, delightful and, damn it, educational - Sunday Times (Culture)A pure delight, a salty-sweet mixture of hard science and bonkers whimsy - Boing BoingExtremely accurate and often amusing answers to everyday issues - Daily MailConsistently fascinating and entertaining - Wall Street JournalThe creator of the popular, extremely excellent webcomic xkcd cleverly illustrates a guide of complicated solutions to simple tasks as common as digging a hole - USA Today[How To] tackles problems from the mundane-such as how to move to a new house-to those that may trouble a mad scientist building her first lava moat. The solutions are often hilariously, and purposefully, absurd. Embedded in these solutions, however, is solid scientific, engineering, and experimental understanding … [for] anyone who appreciates science-based solutions to life’s problems - Science MagazineAbout The Author
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.
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