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

Munroe, Randall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1473680344 ISBN 13 : 9781473680340

Editeur : John Murray, 2020

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A pure delight, a salty-sweet mixture of hard science and bonkers whimsy (Boing Boing)

Extremely accurate and often amusing answers to everyday issues (Daily Mail)

Consistently fascinating and entertaining (Wall Street Journal)

The creator of the popular, extremely excellent webcomic xkcd cleverly illustrates a guide of complicated solutions to simple tasks as common as digging a hole (USA Today)

[How To] tackles problems from the mundane-such as how to move to a new house-to those that may trouble a mad scientist building her first lava moat. The solutions are often hilariously, and purposefully, absurd. Embedded in these solutions, however, is solid scientific, engineering, and experimental understanding . . . [for] anyone who appreciates science-based solutions to life's problems (Science Magazine)

A witty, educational examination of 'unusual approaches to common tasks' . . . generously laced with dry humor . . . Munroe's comic stick-figure art is an added bonus. . . . Apart from generating laughter, the book also manages to achieve his serious objective: to get his audience thinking (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

A gleefully nerdy hypothetical instruction book for armchair scientists of all ages (Booklist)

An enjoyable treat for fans of logic puzzles, brain hacking, kaizen, mad science, and other forms of mental stimulation (Kirkus Reviews)

Praise for Randall Munroe: (.)

Required reading across the world (New York Times)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray
• Date d'édition: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1473680344
• ISBN 13: 9781473680340
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336