Randall Munroe 3 Books Collection Set - What If?, How To & What If?2 - Paperback - Non Fiction Science Humour Bundle - Bestselling Author

Titles in This Set: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Condition: BRAND NEW Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789124252908 Publisher: John Murray Age Range: 13+ (Adult / Young Adult) Overview: This Randall Munroe 3 Books Collection Set brings together What If?, How To, and What If?2 in one paperback bundle. From the creator of the hugely popular webcomic xkcd, these bestselling titles turn genuine science into laugh-out-loud reading, tackling everything from speed bumps to lava lamps made of lava. Ideal for science lovers, engineers and teachers, this set is a guaranteed conversation starter and a brilliant gift for the endlessly curious reader in your life. About the Books: What If? kicked off Munroe's non-fiction career, answering bizarre hypothetical questions sent in by his millions of xkcd readers - from surviving a speed bump at speed, to when the sun set on the British Empire. Munroe treats every question with total scientific seriousness, running simulations and consulting real experts to arrive at answers as rigorous as they are ridiculous. How To takes the opposite approach: instead of answering sensible questions properly, it offers the most absurdly complicated way to do simple tasks, from predicting the weather using your photos to disposing of the book itself by launching it into the sun. What If?2 continues the tradition with even stranger hypotheticals, tackling moving mountains and feeding entire cities to a T. Rex, delivered with the same blend of hard science and dry humour that made the original a bestseller. Across all three titles, Munroe's simple stick-figure illustrations do as much heavy lifting as his prose, distilling complicated physics, biology and engineering into images anyone can follow. The result is a trio of books that reward both cover-to-cover reading and casua