The Knowledge
How to Rebuild our World from Scratch
by Lewis Dartnell
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Pub Date Apr 03 2014 | Archive Date Apr 14 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?
A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world as we know it has ended. You and the other survivors must start again. What knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch?
How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages, or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment? Living in the modern world, we have become disconnected from the basic processes and key fundamentals of science that sustain our lives.
Ingenious and groundbreaking, The Knowledge explains everything you need to know about everything, revolutionising your understanding of the world.
‘A glorious compendium of the knowledge we have lost in the living…the most inspiring book I’ve read in a long time’ Independent
‘A terrifically engrossing history of science and technology’ Guardian
http://the-knowledge.org/
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK, Europe and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) only.
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Marketing Plan
The book which explains everything you need to know about everything
Accessible, expert, engrossing: everything you need to know about everything - with an inventive narrative arc
Will do for popular science what Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guides did for history
promotable, authoritative author: Lewis Dartnell is a young British scientist whose work investigates the possibility of life on Mars; he's written two previous books
Crosses the enduring popularity of end-of-the-world scenarios with lively, practical science writing
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781448137381 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |