'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