Randall Munroe Collection 3 Books Set. 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. The creator of the incredibly popular webcomic xkcd presents his heavily researched answers to his fans' oddest questions, including What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool? " and "Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns? It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words. This item is in the category "Books, Comics & Magazines\Books".The seller is "bookwalla2011" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom.