Randall Munroe is. ''Nerd royalty'' Ben Goldacre ''Totally brilliant'' Tim Harford ''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Bill Gates ''Wonderful'' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The world''s most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do there''s a right way a wrong way and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It''s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. ''How strange science can fix everyday problems'' New Scientist ''A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride'' Nature . Language: English