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Control # 1 hbl99063153
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20201103133112.0
Fixed Data 8 131028s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2013040820
ISBN 20    $a9781594205231 (hardback)
Obsolete 39    $a291009$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$erda$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aT47$b.D37 2014
Dewey Class 82 00 $a500$223
Other Call # 84    $aTEC000000$aSCI000000$2bisacsh
ME:Pers Name 100 $aDartnell, Lewis.
Title 245 14 $aThe knowledge :$bhow to rebuild our world from scratch /$cLewis Dartnell.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bThe Penguin Press,$c2014.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a340 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$2rdacarrier
Note:Content 505 $aThe end of the world as we know it -- The grace period -- Agriculture -- Food and clothing -- Substances -- Materials -- Medicine -- Power to the people -- Transport -- Communication -- Advanced chemistry -- Time and place -- The greatest invention.
Abstract 520    $a"How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible-a guide for rebooting the world? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest-or even the most basic-technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, accurately tell time, weave fibers into clothing, or even how to produce food for yourself? Regarded as one of the brightest young scientists of his generation, Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can't hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn't just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all-the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Abstract 520    $amethod itself. This would allow survivors to learn technological advances not explicitly explored in The Knowledge as well as things we have yet to discover. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself"--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aTechnology$vPopular works.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aDiscoveries in science$vPopular works.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSurvival$vPopular works.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aKnowledge, Theory of$vPopular works.