How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. Its essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly. Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Timesbestselling author of What If?The only book you need if youre going back in timeWhat 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 humanitys original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?With this book as your guide, youll surviveand thrivein any period in Earths history. Bestselling author and timetravel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for grantedfrom 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 sabertoothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. Youre about to make history. . . better.
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