How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
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307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 MUNROE 2019
2 available
500 MUNROE 2019
2 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 MUNROE 2019
1 available
500 MUNROE 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
500 MUNROE 2019
1 available
500 MUNROE 2019
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction | 500 MUNROE 2019 | On Shelf |
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction | 500 MUNROE 2019 | On Shelf |
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction | 500 MUNROE 2019 | On Shelf |
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction | 500 MUNROE 2019 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
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Book
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-299) and index.
Description
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer. For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photographs He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Munroe, R. (2019). How to: absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems . Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Munroe, Randall. 2019. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Munroe, Randall. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems Riverhead Books, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Munroe, Randall. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems Riverhead Books, 2019.
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