How To

By Randall Munroe,

Book cover of How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Book description

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre

'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford

'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates

'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The 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?…

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1 author picked How To as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Randall Munroe brings a magic combination of impressive science and fun cartoons that make me laugh. I found this book great fun throughout.

As I read Randall's absurd methods of solving problems—for example, literally moving a house by lifting it with multiple helicopters —I also have a sense that I'm actually learning, if not helpful science exactly, at least intelligent ways of thinking about problems.

Munroe had a job building robots at NASA—reading the book, you can tell he's a brilliant guy—and his charming and disarming distinctive stick men picture style keeps things fun all the way through.

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