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