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"the way things work", the book with all the woolly mammoths in it. Learned a lot from it
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
"the way things work", the book with all the woolly mammoths in it. Learned a lot from it
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoThat is the literal pillar; physically and figuratively the foundation, of my knowledge corpus; aptly the bottom book in my corner-turned-library. I spent hours as a kid, slowly parsing, contextualizing, researching every iota and minutiae of that book. I had an encyclopedia just to help supplement that book.
- gfna 2y agoDidnt recogize the english title before i read this comment and it immediately clicked. The copy i have is from the late 80s and even then it was a bit dated, but it didnt matter. Awesome book. Now 35 years later my kids and I sometimes spend hours looking through the same book. Even more dated now, but that probably makes it even more amazing for them and now they know how a tape recorder works \o/
- calvinmorrison 2y agotheres an updated edition as well
- JKCalhoun 2y agoGrew up with the original "The Way Things Work" [1] (found out later it was an English translation of the German book, "Wie Funktioniert Das"). [1] https://archive.org/details/waythingswork0000unse_p9x7/ https://archive.org/details/waythingswork0000unse_p9x7/
- calvinmorrison 2y agoI recently got a NEW copy as an adult. So happy to have it on my shelf!