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400k+
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A global bestseller
Foundations Set
The Book & The Black Book
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The story of humanity and the forgotten ideas that could have changed it.
The Book is a hand-illustrated guide to the discoveries, inventions, and social systems that have shaped humanity. A celebration of human creativity, crafted by artists, writers, and researchers.
The Black Book is a hand-illustrated exploration of forgotten inventions, abandoned technologies, and alternative paths of human progress. Co-created with Noah Charney, it brings real but overlooked ideas back to life through original artwork, historical research, and stories of human ingenuity that never became part of everyday history.
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978-0-578-37745-2
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Weight: 4.96lb / 2.25 kg
Size: 9.0 x 2.0 x 13.4 in / 23 x 4.9 x 34 cm
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TOP 2 in Kickstarter history
400k+
copies sold to curious minds of the planet Earth
A global bestseller
Foundations Set
This book is
a modern artifact
The Book is a hand-illustrated guide to the discoveries, inventions, and social systems that have propelled our species forward. It is a celebration of human creativity and achievement, brought to you by artists, writers, researchers, and other makers of things, to be touched, shared, and passed from one hungry mind to another.
The Book
The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization
Our team of experts spent more than 5000 hours painstakingly bringing the best in human innovation into one jaw-dropping hardcover book.
REIMAGINE THE FUTURE THROUGH 180 LOST, REAL INVENTIONS
Every invention you use today beat a hundred others to get there. The atmospheric train lost to the steam engine or self-pouring teapot lost to the ordinary kettle. We went looking for the ones that didn't make it, drew them out and gathered them into one beautiful book you can actually hold.
The Black Book
The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
A hand-illustrated book, co-created with Noah Charney, dedicated to inventions that never became part of everyday life. Some arrived before the world was ready for them, and others simply lacked the context, support, or funding needed to succeed. Rather than viewing these ideas as failures, the book reconsiders them as fully realized alternative paths of human ingenuity. Through original illustrations and carefully researched stories, it brings forgotten concepts back into focus, showing the creativity, ambition, and vision behind each one.
