The Knowledge How to Rebuild Our World After an Apocalypse

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Publisher's Synopsis

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


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About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099575832
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 500
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 341
Weight: 250g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 29mm