How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
By: Ryan North
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Specialization gives the people in your civilization the opportunity to go further in any direction of study than any other human has gone before. It unlocks doctors who can devote their entire lives to curing disease, librarians who can devote their entire lives to ensuring the accumulated knowledge of humanity remains safe and accessible, and writers who, fresh out of school, take the first job they find and devote the most productive years of their lives to writing corporate repair manuals for rental-market time machines that their bosses almost certainly don't even read,* ironically for so little money that they can't possibly afford to go back and fix that one horrible, horrible mistake."-Ryan North, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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1. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
By: Lewis Dartnell
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological societ… read more
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2. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
By: Randall Munroe
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer… read more
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3. Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music
By: Peter Doggett
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of re… read more
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4. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
5. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
By: Zach Weinersmith , Kelly Weinersmith
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Hardcover
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar c… read more
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6. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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7. And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
By: Cody Cassidy , Paul Doherty
3.32
Format: 240 pages,
A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossi… read more
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8. All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
By: None , C.M. Kosemen , Darren Naish
3.07
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
All Yesterdays is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lavishly ill… read more
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9. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
10. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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11. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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12. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- humor
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
13. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By: Randall Munroe
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildl… read more
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- science
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- audiobook
"It turns out that if you accelerate at 1 G for several years, you can reach almost any destination in the universe. After a few years have passed [traveling at that rate], the effects of relativity r…"-Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
14. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
By: Ryan North
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke… read more
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- reference
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"Specialization gives the people in your civilization the opportunity to go further in any direction of study than any other human has gone before. It unlocks doctors who can devote their entire lives…"-Ryan North, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
15. Math with Bad Drawings
By: Ben Orlin
4.22
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightful re-education in math that em… read more
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"Reality is a lovely starting point, but the coolest destinations lie far beyond it."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
"There are two kinds of people in life: those who like crude dualities and those who do not."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
"It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
"Science has never been defined by infallibility or superhuman perfection. It has always been about healthy skepticism, about putting every hypothesis to the test."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
16. Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
By: Cody Cassidy
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented… read more
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17. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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18. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
By: Donald R. Prothero
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. In The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks, Donald R… read more
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19. Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
By: Eugenia Cheng
3.63
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths… read more
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20. Science Fictions
By: Stuart Ritchie
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more
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"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions
21. ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
By: Steven Decker
4.37
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
BOOK INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCEImagine being given a chance at a second life but with a catc… read more
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"I wouldn’t wish my life on anyone!"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was inclined to share it with."-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"From here, we can see the line of time stretching in opposite directions for eternity. You see, Edward, there is no beginning and no end of time. The past, present, and future are all happening at on…"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"The man had character. He possessed a moral compass to do the right thing, to fight for those who could not defend themselves, and to challenge authority that shielded itself behind the power of God …"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
