The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any tas…
Shelve How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future technologies
What will the world of tomorrow be like? Ho…
Shelve Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Από τα αρχαιότατα χρόνια ο άνθρωπος έστρεφε το βλέμμα του προς τ’ άστρα, κατακλυσμένος από συναισθήματα δέους και απορίας: Tι ήταν άραγε αυτά τα μικροσκοπικά ουράνια φώτα που συντρόφευαν τις νύχτες μα…
Shelve Προς τ' άστρα: Ένα μαγευτικό ταξίδι στον κόσμο της Αστροφυσικής
- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a perfect regular pentagon by knotting a piece of paper! - Tie your shoes faster than ever before, saving lit…
Shelve Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightful re-education in math that empowers readers with a joyful appreciation and powerful understanding of how math works in our daily l…
During four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial…
Shelve Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia
Fans of the xkcd comic ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If…
Shelve What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Το άγνωστο συχνά τρομάζει τον κόσμο. Πολλούς τους κάνει να αισθάνονται χαμένοι. Μόνοι. Ανασφαλείς. Σε άλλους το άγνωστο κεντρίζει την περιέργεια. Τους κάνει ανυπόμονους. Περήφανους. Να αισθάνονται μέρ…
Shelve Είμαστε αστρόσκονη: Σύμπαν, μια ιστορία χωρίς τέλος
In quel preciso momento, un centesimo di miliardesimo di secondo dopo il Big Bang, si è deciso il nostro destino. In un universo in cui materia e antimateria si equivalevano, e che quindi avrebbe potu…
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysici…
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Doe…
From linguist Adam Aleksic, known as @etymologynerd on social media, comes a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways.
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Shelve Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagine What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing…
Shelve And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-win…
Katie, who has strange powers that make people shun her, attempts to start a new life in another town with her mother. Then Mr. Cooper moves into her apartment building and starts asking too many ques…
The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the wo…
Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who…
