How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe - Non Fiction - Paperback
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Details Condition: BRAND NEW Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781473680340 Publisher: John Murray Overview How To is the gloriously impractical follow-up guide from Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If? and Thing Explainer. Rather than offering sensible solutions, Munroe applies rigorous scientific method to the most absurd possible approach for everyday tasks, resulting in a book that's equal parts hilarious, informative, and gloriously nonsensical. It's a celebration of curiosity, over-engineering, and the joy of asking "what if we did it the hard way?" About the Book For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally wrong that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. Drawing on the same blend of stick-figure illustration, careful research, and deadpan humour that made xkcd …
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