Randall Munroe科普作品系列 英文原版 

基本信息

作者：兰德尔-门罗

装帧：336+ 321+368 页

出版社：John Murray

语言：英语

商品重量：约269g/本

尺寸：128 x 196 x 24mm /本

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目录

9781473680340 如何不切实际地解决实际问题（平装） How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems PB

9781848549562 如果这样,会怎样?科学妙答 What If?

9780593542903 如果这样,会怎样?科学妙答 第2部 （平装） What If 2

书籍简介

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems PB

世界上有趣和无用的自我帮助指南，来自疯狂流行的网络漫画xkcd和百万销量的《如果》和《事情的解释》背后的杰出头脑。

对于你可能想要做的任何任务，都有一个正确的方法，一个错误的方法，以及一个糟糕到没有人愿意尝试的方法。How To是一个关于第三种方法的指南。它充满了非常不切实际的建议，从降落飞机到挖洞，无所不包。

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.

What If?

 粉丝们向他提出了很多奇怪的问题。你开车时能以多快的速度撞上减速带，并能活着？大英帝国的太阳是什么时候（如果有的话）落山的？什么时候Facebook上的死人资料会比活人多？一只在纽约横冲直撞的霸王龙一天需要吃掉多少人？

为了寻求答案，门罗进行了计算机模拟，翻阅了成堆的解密军事研究备忘录，解决了微分方程并咨询了核反应堆操作员。他的回答是清晰和搞笑的杰作，并辅以漫画。他们经常预测人类将彻底毁灭，或者至少是一场真正的大爆炸。

 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 runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.

What If 2

在你进行宇宙公路旅行、把纽约市的居民喂给霸王龙、或用香蕉填满每个教堂之前，一定要参考这份不切实际的想法的实用指南。门罗不为荒谬所动，他查阅了从秋千物理学到客机弹射器设计等方面的研究，清楚而简明地回答了读者的问题，并配有富有启发性、偶尔令人恐惧的插图。正如他一贯展示的那样，你可以从研究世界在非常具体的极端情况下如何运作中学到很多东西。

Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Munroe consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airliner catapult–design to answer his readers’ questions, clearly and concisely, with illuminating and occasionally terrifying illustrations. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.

作者简介

兰德尔-门罗是《纽约时报》头号畅销书《如何》、《如果》和《事物解释》的作者；科学问答博客《如果》的作者；以及流行的网络漫画xkcd的作者。他曾是美国宇航局的机器人专家，2006年离开该机构，全职在互联网上画漫画。他住在马萨诸塞州。

Randall Munroe is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. He lives in Massachusetts.