Full name: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

Author: Ryan North Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, History, Humor, Time travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780735220140 073522014X

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? With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. Similar books: Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Jones A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson How To by Randall Munroe Soonish by Kelly Weinersmith Gumption by Nick Offerman Quackery by Lydia Kang Grunt by Mary Roach The Gobsmacking Galaxy by Kjartan Poskitt Time Travel by James Gleick The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley Why Is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy The Radium Girls by Kate Moore Microscopic Monsters by Nick Arnold A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Stiff by Mary Roach Packing for Mars by Mary Roach Humans by Tom Phillips At Home by Bill Bryson