The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

Scientist Lewis Dartnell imagines that civilization has collapsed and asks what survivors would need to know to rebuild it quickly. His answer is a guide to the basic science behind the modern world. Dartnell explains how to grow food, make clothing, produce medicine, generate power, build simple machines and recover chemistry and communication. Along the way he shows how much knowledge everyday life depends on, and how much of it most people have never learned.

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Balaji Srinivasan: “An important subject. Less theoretical every day. This is a good book on the topic.”