How to Invent Everything : : a Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

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Call Number: 609 No, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Essays / North, Ryan
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Essays / North, Ryan	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

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. You're about to make history. . . better.

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Functionally Useless submitted by Lady Macbeth on August 2, 2019, 7:05pm This book is too boring for the average non-time traveling individuals to read and too dense (and weirdly organized) for stranded time travelers to read. Either way, functionally useless.

Too detailed submitted by bjkoch on July 9, 2022, 12:33pm Could have cut the book in half

STEM field submitted by czadams on August 28, 2022, 11:32am Creative idea for a book! I liked it! It makes kids intersted in STEM field