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How to Invent Everything

A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

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How to Invent Everything

By: Ryan North
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An NPR Best Book of 2018

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If?

The only book you need if you're going back in time

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?

With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--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, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . better. Time Travel History & Culture Technology World Funny History Witty
Fascinating Information • Comprehensive Content • Perfect Narration • Educational Material • Humorous Presentation

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Disclaimer: In the event you are stranded in an alternate worldline this isn't the only book to bring. Although quite comprehensive in rebuilding society's technology, it misses the necessary weapons, self defense, hunting techniques, political strategy. Maybe revision 2 will fix that? Or maybe society would be better without weapons.
Joking aside, this is a great look at how we all stand on the shoulders of giants. Our technology and harnessing nature's power is explained in sometimes excruciating but humorous details for the layperson. Although the visual depictions are missing, the narrator does a great job describing them. Clearly, this is geared for rebuilding western society. Complete with the snarky "It took this long for humans to develop xxxxx!?!" Written by disgruntled employees of Chrononaut Solutions. I recommend this book to anyone looking for perspective on our modern society.

An enjoyable and witty chrononaut survival manual.

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Full of dad jokes and interesting history. Dont go in expecting it to just be Primitive Technology. It covers humanities greatest inventions and discoveries and their histories, from things like nutrition to the most efficient farming practices. If you were to be plopped down 50,000 years ago, you would theoretically be able to jumpstart civilization by tens of thousands of years with the info here. The narration is also really well done.

Entertaining but maybe not what you expect

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Ryan North kindly provides some extra material for the audiobook, but unfortunately does not make up for the fact that hearing him list the contents of a table I would scan in a few seconds any less boring.

That being said, I love everything about the content of the book itself. It just doesn’t lend itself to a listening format.

Everything I want in a book, unfortunately a lot of tables and diagrams

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one of my favorite books. I have the digital and paperback copy. I can't recommend this enough!

great reading

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It is a great read, let you know how a lot of things work in our world that most of them we know nothing about. And all written in a sarcastic funny way thinking you´re a time traveller inventing civilization for your own confort in the past!

Great book!

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