Hachette HOW TO
If you've ever wondered how to land a plane using only the most absurd scientific reasoning imaginable, Randall Munroe has you covered. The creator of the beloved webcomic xkcd and author of the bestselling What If? returns with a self-help book that cheerfully ignores the entire point of self-help books. How To is a guide not to the right way of doing things, nor even the wrong way, but to the spectacularly, catastrophically inadvisable way. It's the kind of approach that makes engineers wince and physicists chuckle. The advice is wildly impractical, covering everything from digging a hole to piloting an aircraft, all approached with the same gleeful disregard for common sense. What makes it work is Munroe's gift for grounding genuinely complex science in situations so ridiculous you can't help but keep reading. Nature called it 'a wild ride worth clambering aboard', and New Scientist praised its knack for showing how strange science can actually illuminate everyday problems. Ben Goldacre considers Munroe 'nerd royalty', Bill Gates has called his writing laugh-out-loud funny, and Tim Harford rates him as totally brilliant. High praise, and in this case, entirely deserved. Funny, sharp, and quietly educational.
- Author: Randall Munroe
- Publisher: John Murray
- Genre: Design & Fashion
- ISBN: 978-1473680340
- Pages: 336 pages