How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

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Ryan North

How to Invent Everything

Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

Ryan North

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English

Virgin Books
01 October 2018

History of ideas; Mathematics & Sciences; Philosophy of science; Popular science; Inventions & inventors; Humour

A geeks' manual for improving human history, for fans of What If? and The Worst Case Scenario Handbook.
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Get ready to make history better... on the second try.

Imagine you are stranded in the past (your time machine has broken) and the only way home is to rebuild civilization yourself. But you need to do it better and faster this time round.

In this one amazing book, you will learn How to Invent Everything.

Ryan North -- bestselling author, programmer and comic book legend -- provides all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts and figures required for this challenge. Thanks to his detailed blueprint, humanity will mature quickly and efficiently - instead of spending 200,000 years stumbling around in the dark without language, not realising that tying a rock to a string would mean we could navigate the entire world. Or thinking disease was caused by weird smells.

Fascinating and hilarious, How To Invent Everything is an epic, deeply researched history of the key technologies that made each stage of human history possible (from writing and farming to buttons and birth control) - and it's as entertaining as a great time-travel novel.

So if you've ever secretly wondered if you could do history better yourself, now is your chance to find out how.

By: Ryan North
Imprint: Virgin Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 48mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9780753552568
ISBN 10: 0753552566
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ryan North is the (New York Times bestselling, Eisner-award winning) creator of Dinosaur Comics, the co-editor of the Machine of Death series, and the author of To Be or Not To Be, the choose-your-own-path version of Hamlet! He has written the Adventure Time comic and writes The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, who you might know from their movies about an iron man. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife Jenn and his dog Noam Chompsky.

Reviews for How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

How to Invent Everything is such a cool book ... essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly * Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and bestelling author of WHAT IF? and THING EXPLAINER * Technically, we are all time travelers and we are all trapped. So, even if you happen to be scanning this blurb in what you perceive to be a 'normal' timeline, I heartily recommend you read this book cover to cover. * Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and author of SOONISH * A dazzling piece of work that's also genuinely hilarious * Elan Mastai, author of ALL OUR WRONG TODAYS * A witty pop science guide intended for those demanding times when one needs to create a civilization from scratch... wry humour keeps the discussion lighthearted. North's 'survival guide' is a fun, thoughtful, and thoroughly accessible reference for curious readers, students, and world-builders, as well as wayward time travellers * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * Packed with cool, fun, and useful stuff... a friendly and thought-provoking reference, just the thing for the bright kid in the family, to say nothing of the neighbourhood time traveller * Kirkus Reviews *