How To : Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd

by Munroe, Randall | The arts
Published 03/09/2020 by John Murray Press (John Murray Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 336 pages
128 x 197 x 26mm | 278g

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe

world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant

mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling 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 bad 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. 'How strange science can fix everyday problems' New Scientist'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' Nature