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

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. Seller Inventory # 1560521672

Synopsis:

<b><b>An NPR Best Book of 2018</b><br><b></b><br><b>"</b><b><i>How to Invent Everything</i></b><b> is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and </b><b><i>New York Times</i></b><b>-bestselling author of </b><b><i>What If? </i></b><br><br><b>The only book you need if you're going back in time</b></b><br><br>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? <br><br>With this book as your guide, you'll survive--<i>and thrive</i>--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, <i>How to Invent Everything </i>will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . <i>better.</i>

About the Author: <B>Ryan North</B> is the <I>New York Times</I>-bestselling author of <I>Romeo and/or Juliet</I> and <I>To Be or Not To Be</I>. He's the creator of <I>Dinosaur Comics</I> and the Eisner Award-winning writer of <I>Adventure Time, Jughead</I>, and <I>The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl</I> 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.

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.