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How to invent everything : a survival guide for the stranded time traveller (edizione 2018)

di Ryan North

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Reference. Technology. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) 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." �??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. . . … (altro)

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Utente:	trinkers
Titolo:	How to invent everything : a survival guide for the stranded time traveller
Autori:	Ryan North
Info:	London : Virgin Digital, 2018.
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Like Randall Munroe says on the cover - this is such a cool book. A manual to reinvent much of the basics of civilization and science from scratch is a very fundamentally interesting concept for me, and this book gave me an understanding of things around me that I didn't know before. (It was news to me, for instance, that soap was made from animal fat! I knew it contained lye, but didn't know the general makeup of it, nor the process to go about creating it in the first place.) But as much as I enjoyed the book, it often felt like it was trying too hard to be funny - this is no fault of the creator, but just a mismatch with my personal preferences when it comes to humour, but it does keep How to Invent Everything off the shelf of my favourite books. Still, it's one I'll recommend to anyone interested in a pretty easily digestible science book, even though it won't reach my personal upper echelon. Four stars. (

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VerixSilvercrow | Jun 10, 2024 |

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. (

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Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |

Finishing all the stuff I got like 75% through but got distracted (

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Adamantium | Aug 21, 2022 |

Charming semi-history of human innovation as a manual for a time traveler stuck in the past. I loved the Crosstime Engineer (yes, I know now) and so it was fun for me despite the occasional dry lists. (

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rivkat | Aug 11, 2022 |

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. (

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
—George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, and poet
1905 CE

Those who cannot remember the past are cordially invited to revisit it.
—Jessica Bennett, CEO of Chronotix Solutions, proud manufacturers of the FC3000™
2043 CE

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Reference. Technology. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) 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." �??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. . .

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