MUNROE RANDALL

(P/B) WHAT IF
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of answers, Munroe ...
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ΤΙ ΘΑ ΣΥΝΕΒΑΙΝΕ ΑΝ...
Γεια χαρά! Σας ευχαριστώ που ρίχνετε μια ματιά στο βιβλίο μου. Αν σκέφτεστε να το αγοράσετε, να μερικά πράγματα που θα θέλατε ενδεχομένως να ξέρετε: Οι άνθρωποι δεν μπορούν να χωνέψουν την κυτταρίνη του χαρτιού αλλά, αν μπορούσαν, τότε θα παίρνατε περίπου 2.300 θερμίδες αν τρώγατε αυτό το βιβλίο (μαζί με το εξώφυλλο). Το συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο δεν μπορεί να σταματήσει τις σφαίρες (τουλάχιστον τις περισσότερες) αν θέλετε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε ως αλεξίσφαιρη θωράκιση, μάλλον θα χρειαστείτε περισσότερα από ένα αντίτυπα. Αν έχετε δυνατό χέρι, θ...
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(H/B) HOW TO
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. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking...
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(P/B) THING EXPLAINER
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. 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 ...
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