How To by Randall Munroe 2019 - Hodder & Stoughton
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible.
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible.
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible.
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the moon. And if you want to get rid of this book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapour, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible.
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd
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I won't say this book "makes science fun", because Science IS fun. But this is a near perfect example of how you can extend scientific and logical thinking into any area in life, and have fun doing it.This book (and Randall's work in general) makes me realise how many ways there are to deal with life. I just don't actually think of them when I actually have a problem.But apart from all that guff, this book is just wacky and fun.
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I love the book, my 11yo son loves it, and my wife quite liked the bits that she read too. Randall has a bizarre imagination, and the science knowledge to work out how all these things would work. So ridiculous, but based on real science.
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd By Randall Munroe
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Suitability:Great book. Good contents and easy to read. Looks like original.I've been ordering a lot from this seller. They always ship immediately
I won't say this book "makes science fun", because Science IS fun. But this is a near perfect example of how you can extend scientific and logical thinking into any area in life, and have fun doing it.This book (and Randall's work in general) makes me realise how many ways there are to deal with life. I just don't actually think of them when I actually have a problem.But apart from all that guff, this book is just wacky and fun.
I love the book, my 11yo son loves it, and my wife quite liked the bits that she read too. Randall has a bizarre imagination, and the science knowledge to work out how all these things would work. So ridiculous, but based on real science.
The follow up to Randall's book What If, this book contains the same quirky sense of humour and ridiculous answers to questions nobody was really asking.Where this book falls a little flat is in neglecting the extreme, over the top conclusions. The answers to some of the "how to" questions are almost sensible, and I can't recall a single answer involving nuclear explosions. If your choice is between this and What If, definitely get What If. If you've read What If, you know what to expect from this.Having said that, it's still a great read and I would recommend.
Whether you are a nerd, geek, technoid, or just need a good laugh- "How To-" will fulfill your need. If you've dreamed of finishing a daunting task using the strangest yet plausible (in your mind, anyway!) means, this book could well make it possible for you!
Have you ever wanted to build a lava moat around your house? Mail a package from space? Power your house with efficient (or inefficient) environmental solutions?This is the book for you. Randall Munroe brings his usual blend of stick-figure sketches, humor, and scientific rigor to increasingly implausible options for achieving goals from the mundane to the odd.
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