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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? and Thing Explainer 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.

'How strange science can fix everyday problems' New Scientist

'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' Nature

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Publication: 3 Sept 2020, John Murray
ISBN: 9781473680340

Extent: 336 pages

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      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? and Thing Explainer 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.

      'How strange science can fix everyday problems' New Scientist

      'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' Nature

      Paperback 
      Publication: 3 Sept 2020, John Murray
      ISBN: 9781473680340

      Extent: 336 pages

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