Randall Munroe Collection 2 Books Set (How To & What If?)

Randall Munroe Collection brings together two books from the creator of the webcomic xkcd: How To and What If?. The set draws on Munroe’s distinctive approach to explaining ideas through unusual questions and deliberately impractical solutions.

How To is presented as an entertaining and intentionally “useless” self-help guide. It focuses on approaches that are so spectacularly wrong that few would ever attempt them, offering highly impractical advice for tasks ranging from landing a plane to digging a hole. What If? collects humorous, informative answers to the strange questions readers send in, exploring scenarios that range from everyday curiosities to large-scale historical and technological hypotheticals.

Included titles

• How To
• What If?

Key details

• Two-book set by Randall Munroe
• Written by the creator of the webcomic xkcd
• Includes How To and What If?

Synopses

How To

Described as an entertaining and “useless” self-help guide, this book focuses on the kind of method that is monumentally bad rather than simply right or wrong. It offers highly impractical advice for a wide range of tasks, including landing a plane and digging a hole.

What If?

This book presents humorous, informative answers to unusual questions submitted by readers of xkcd. The questions range from how fast you could hit a speed bump and live, to when the sun went down on the British Empire, to when Facebook might contain more profiles of dead people than living, and even how many humans a T Rex in New York would need to eat each day.