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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell

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“How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?” That’s the question that Dartnell aims to answer in The Knowledge, and (without testing it myself), he seems to do a damn good job. This book has a LOT of information in it. Not only does it prepare you to rebuild society, but it gives you an excellent history lesson on how humanity has figured out what we have so far. “The most valuable part of our flying start is knowledge. That’s the short cut […]

Apparently, the world will be rebuilt with chemistry. Alas for toilets!

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A few months back, Lollygagger posted a review of Lewis Dartnell’s The Knowledge, which was described as a sort of real-life companion to Station Eleven. Since my fall Composition I course will be focusing on dystopia, I thought a real-life how-to guide might be a great thing to read. And it certainly was interesting. While Dartnell does not tell you how to skin a deer or make an igloo, he does talk about some of the building blocks of society that we will need to […]

Who Wants to Know How to Tell Time Without a Clock?

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This is kind of the perfect book to read following Station Eleven; the goal is to put the basics of everything we need to know to start bringing civilization back after the apocalypse in one place. My husband had already bought this book (thinking we’d both enjoy it), which was kind of perfect, because by the end of Station Eleven I had some questions about how long it really would take for technology and other things we’re used to having to start being available. Luxuries […]



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