How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

North, Ryan

ISBN 10: 073522014X / ISBN 13: 9780735220140

Published by Riverhead Books, 2018

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Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Wear and minor tears to dust jacket, now wrapped in protective sleeve. Appears unread. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.66. Seller Inventory # 1560521672

Bibliographic Details

Title: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide ...

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: signed by author

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Ryan North is the New York Times-bestselling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and To Be or Not To Be. He's the creator of Dinosaur Comics and the Eisner Award-winning writer of Adventure Time, Jughead, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, and he has a master's in computational linguistics from the University of Toronto. Ryan lives in Toronto with his wife, Jenn, and their dog, Noam Chompsky.