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HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING

Ryan North

A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller

Get ready to make history. . . better.
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?

Don't worry: in How to Invent Everything, bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North has figured out the answers to those four questions - and more - just for you. This guide contains all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up.

How to Invent Everything is a deeply researched history of the key technologies that made each stage of human civilization possible (from writing and farming to buttons and birth control), but it's as fun and entertaining as a good time-travel novel. It will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to thrive - in any point in history.

Ryan North is the New York Times-bestselling author of two chooseable-path Shakespeare books, Romeo and/or Juliet and To Be or Not to Be. He's the creator of Dinosaur Comics and the Eisner Award-winning writer of Adventure Time, Jughead, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, and he has a master's in computational linguistics from the University of Toronto.

WIE MAN UNSERE ZIVILISATION WIEDER AUFBAUT, WENN MAN SICH MIT SEINER ZEITMASCHINE VERFAHREN HAT
Deutsch von Carolin Moser
[PB EMF 11/2020]
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Published 2018-09-01 by Riverhead

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A friendly and thought-provoking reference, just the thing for the bright kid in the family, to say nothing of the neighborhood time traveler. Read more...

UK: Ebury; China: CITIC ; Korea: Woongjin; Poland: Proszynski; Russia: Eksmo; Denmark: Loxodonta; Taiwan: Common Master Press;

Hilarious and endlessly fascinating . . . For the vast general population that might decide to trust their lives to the FC3000, this book is potentially invaluable (and mighty entertaining) one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about life, the universe, and the fly wheel.

Brilliant conceit. . . . a slyly funny piece of popular science writing. (Glen Weldon, NPR's Great Reads of 2018)

A fun, thoughtful, and thoroughly accessible reference for curious readers, students, and world-builders, as well as wayward time travelers.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Read more...

Film/tv rights optioned by Columbia Pictures.

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

Time travel tips both handy and hilarious . . . If you're a fan of his Dinosaur Comics, you already know Toronto writer Ryan North is both whip-smart and hilarious . . . Combine that humour, intelligence and style with the history of human technology and you've got How to Invent Everything . . . For the reader who is not trapped in the past, the book also serves as an excellent and fun-to-read primer on world history, chemistry, first aid, trigonometry, engineering, music, philosophy and more . . . Overall, though, it nails the elusive bull's-eye of being both educational and entertaining.