Originally funded by 30,000+ believers
400,000+ copies in homes around the world
Highest-funded publication in Kickstarter history
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1039 reseñas
The Book
The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization. English version 🇬🇧
Garantía de reembolso de 30 días
Pagos seguros
400k+
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Somewhere between sacred text and explorer's codex lies an object unlike any other ever bound between two covers - a monument five thousand hours in the making, rendered entirely by human hand.
Every word within these pages was wrestled from the world by human minds. Every illustration born from a human hand. Five thousand hours — not of processing, but of thinking, questioning, drawing, and beginning again. There is no algorithm here. Only people, and their extraordinary devotion to getting it right.
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¿Está disponible en otros idiomas?
Por ahora, puedes disfrutarlo en inglés, alemán, español, italiano, francés y japonés. Si notamos una mayor demanda de otros idiomas, trabajaremos rápidamente para incorporarlos.
¿En qué tipo de papel están impresos los libros?
The Book está impreso en papel de alta calidad utilizando impresión offset.
¿Cómo puedo acelerar el envío de mi pedido? ¿Ofrecéis envío urgente o algo por el estilo?
No ofrecemos ningún tipo de envío urgente ni nada similar, ¡pero no dudes en ponerte en contacto con nosotros a través de support@hungryminds.comy solicitar a nuestro equipo que dé prioridad a tu pedido!
¿The Book es adecuado para menores de 18 años?
Sí, lo es. Sin embargo, el set también incluye un sobre sellado con contenido adicional para mayores de 18 años, relacionado con tecnologías de carácter íntimo. Este material se ha retirado de The Book y se presenta por separado, en un sobre cerrado, para dificultar su acceso a los menores.
¿Cuál es el ISBN?
978-0-578-37745-2
¿Cuáles son las dimensiones?
Peso: 4.96lb / 2.25 kg
Medidas: 9.0 x 2.0 x 13.4 in / 23 x 4.9 x 34 cm
Procesamiento de pedidos
Todos los pedidos se procesan dentro de 5 días hábiles. No enviamos pedidos los fines de semana ni los días festivos nacionales. Una vez realizado el pedido, solo podemos hacer cambios antes de que se ingrese en nuestro sistema de procesamiento, lo cual normalmente ocurre dentro de una hora después de realizar el pedido.
Seguimiento de pedidos
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Envío
Ten en cuenta que los tiempos de envío varían según la ubicación. El envío y los impuestos se calculan al finalizar la compra. Para obtener más información sobre los tiempos de entrega y los costos de envío en tu país, visita nuestra página de Política de Envío. Ofrecemos entrega exprés dentro de los Estados Unidos. Puedes seleccionar el envío exprés al finalizar la compra.
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1039 reseñas
Originally funded by 30,000+ believers
400,000+ copies in homes around the world
Highest-funded publication in Kickstarter history
What if you could carry all of human
civilization in your hands?
Сonsider the question seriously. Empires have risen on the strength of a single idea. Civilizations have perished for want of knowledge that was simply... lost. The wheel. Penicillin. The arch. The printing press. The power grid. For ten thousand years, humanity has accumulated a vast and fragile inheritance - discoveries and inventions that transformed our species from cave-dwellers into builders of cities that touch the clouds.
Now, you can possess it all.
Every essential mechanism. Every critical process. Every foundational material. Rendered not as dry encyclopedia entry, but as a living, breathing illuminated manuscript for the modern age - illustrated with the fervor of a medieval monk, verified with the rigor of a contemporary scientist, and bound with the permanence of an heirloom meant to outlast its owner.
This is The Book. It is not ignorable. It is not a coffee table ornament. It is a testament of our species - and one of the most extraordinary objects ever made.
5,000+ Hours of Creation
400+ Pages of Knowledge
1,000+ Hand-Drawn Illustrations
$3M+ Raised by Believers
Translated into 6 languages worldwide
Every detail deliberate. Every
material chosen.
In an age of disposable content, this is a declaration that some things deserve to be made properly - slowly, obsessively, and without compromise. The Hungry Minds collective is, by their own description, "proudly slow, painstakingly deliberate, and utterly uncompromising." Every element of The Book was selected not for convenience, but for consequence.
I. Lithographic Printing
with Soy Inks
The pages of The Book are not merely printed - they are pressed. High-quality lithographic printing using soy-based inks produces colors of extraordinary depth and fidelity, each illustration rendered with a richness and sharpness that digital reproduction cannot approximate. The result is a chromatic intensity that feels, quite literally, alive.
II. 157gsm Uncoated
Paper Stock
The leaves of this volume are printed on 157gsm premium paper - substantial, cream-toned, and possessed of that particular quality that invites the fingertip to linger. Each page has a tactile authority. It is paper that knows its own importance, that resists the crumple of time and the indignity of dog-ears.
III. Silver Embossed
Cover
The cover announces itself before a single page is turned. Premium silver embossing catches the light at every angle - precise, restrained, and unmistakably intentional. This is not decoration. It is signature. The mark of an object that knows exactly what it is and makes no apology for the statement it makes upon a shelf.
IV. Expertly Sewn
Binding
Where mass-produced books are glued and prayed over, The Book is sewn. Traditional sewn binding ensures that no page loosens, no spine cracks, no section departs from its companions. This is a volume built not for a season but for a generation - one to be passed, with love, from one hungry mind to the next.
V. Every Illustration,
by Human Hand
Each of the thousand-plus illustrations within began as pencil on paper. One line. One idea. One invention at a time. The team of artists brought a medieval illuminator's devotion to a steampunk encyclopedist's canvas - hiding literary allusions in margins, layering mythological references beneath scientific diagrams, and imbuing every image with a wit that rewards the attentive eye.
VI. Every Fact,
Verified by Experts
Verified by Experts The Book's 5,000+ hours were not spent in illustration alone. Scientists, historians, engineers, and subject-matter experts subjected every claim within these pages to rigorous scrutiny. What you hold is not one person's opinion of how civilization works - it is the distilled, verified consensus of those who have dedicated their lives to understanding it.
A hefty, comprehensive, and stunningly illustrated tome... The book creates a feeling that you have travelled back in time, accessing secretive information reserved
only for a select few.
From the first flame to molecular
gastronomy
Twenty-three chapters span the full breadth of human civilization - from the most elemental act of survival to the most rarefied pinnacles of culture. There is no hierarchy here. The fire-maker and the architect stand as equals, as they always have in the history of our species.
| Fire & Survival | Food & Agriculture | The Human Body & Medicine |
Materials & Manufacture |
| Mechanics & Engineering |
Architecture & Construction |
Navigation & Seafaring |
Energy & Power Grids |
| Chemistry & Alchemy | Communication & Language |
Mathematics & Logic | Governance & Society |
| Commerce & Economy | Aviation & Transport | Music & Acoustics | Art & Aesthetics |
| Astronomy & Cosmology |
Rites of Passage | Molecular Gastronomy |
Weapons & Defense |
| Plants & Botany | The Animal Kingdom | + Much More Within |
Chapters to explore
Turn a page at random. You may find yourself studying the anatomy of the human bloodstream, the chain of accidents that gave us penicillin, or the surprisingly elegant geometry of why a chair holds your weight. Every spread is a doorway. Every margin hides a joke for the careful reader. Mythological creatures lurk beside engineering diagrams. Sly references reward the close eye. The Book does not simply teach - it invites you to wander.
Anatomía y sangre
El cuerpo humano es un universo en sí mismo. Todo está interconectado, la energía y los nutrientes fluyen de un lugar a otro a través del sistema de suministro del cuerpo: la sangre. En condiciones normales, la sangre permanece dentro de tu cuerpo, pero en ciertas situaciones que ponen en peligro la vida, puede compartirse con otra persona. Y, afortunadamente, encontrar a alguien con un tipo de sangre compatible es más fácil que encontrar a alguien con intereses, opiniones políticas o gustos musicales en común.
Bicicletas
Algunos inventos surgen de forma natural, como si se crearan espontáneamente, como ocurrió con la rueda. Otros dependen de una serie de afortunadas coincidencias para llegar a existir. Pero, en general, el descubrimiento es un proceso arduo y prolongado, iluminado solo por breves destellos de inspiración. Al unir dos ruedas a un chasis resistente, incorporar una cadena y unos pedales, obtienes un vehículo divertido y eficiente, apto tanto para el transporte de carga pesada como para llevar a tus amigos. Y si aplicas los principios básicos de su diseño, puedes idear otros muchos dispositivos útiles… e incluso llegar a generar electricidad.
Animación
La animación se basa en una ilusión óptica sencilla. Si muestras una serie de imágenes fijas lo bastante rápido, el cerebro las une como si fueran una sola imagen en movimiento. Este efecto se consigue gracias al uso de múltiples imágenes secuenciales con variaciones mínimas respecto a la anterior en la serie. Pero la persistencia visual es solo una pieza del puzle. Al ver personajes animados, tendemos a empatizar con ellos, a identificarnos con sus emociones. Reímos, lloramos y gritamos de miedo junto a ellos. Ahí es donde entra en juego la cinematografía.
Festivales
Para el ser humano, hacer pausas en la rutina cotidiana y en la lucha por sobrevivir es esencial. Sin estos respiros, es incapaz de crear. Los pensamientos negativos comienzan a acumularse, aumenta su tendencia al conformismo y la sociedad entra en una etapa de estancamiento. Los festivales y carnavales ayudan a liberar tensiones y a reactivar la mente creativa. La cultura del festival representa una contradicción viviente frente a las estructuras jerárquicas, los dogmas y las normas que buscan salvaguardar el orden social. Este tipo de celebraciones despierta una sensación de libertad, lo que permite a las personas dejar de lado sus obligaciones y responsabilidades durante un tiempo, para sumergirse en el ambiente festivo y ser uno mismo, sin filtros ni ataduras.
Sushi
La comida es, por supuesto, importante por su valor calórico y nutricional. ¡Pero también es mucho más que eso! Es una oportunidad de crecimiento personal y una forma de expresión. Los nuevos sabores y sensaciones generan nuevas conexiones en tu cerebro, y una buena comida puede sanarte más allá de lo físico. Ya sabes el dicho: somos lo que comemos. Así que, ¿por qué no convertirte en tu mejor versión con una comida bien equilibrada? Es hora de aprender a hacer sushi. Lo único que tendrás que cocinar es el arroz. Este es el gran secreto del sushi: no compliques lo que puede hacerse de manera simple.
Made for those who never
stopped asking, "why?"
The Book was born from a childhood question - one founder, lying awake in the dark, wondering: if I were alive in the Middle Ages, what would I make a bowstring from? That restless curiosity is the spirit this volume was made to honour and to feed.
It is for the engineer who suspects the ancients knew things we have forgotten. For the artist who wants to understand the mathematics of beauty. For the parent who wishes to hand their child not a screen but a portal to the entire history of human ingenuity. For anyone who has ever looked at a bridge, a ship, a loaf of bread, or a symphony and thought: how, exactly, does that work?
And it is, without question, the most extraordinary gift one curious mind has ever been able to give another.
It arrives with considerable presence
At nearly five pounds and over thirteen inches tall, The Book does not merely sit upon a shelf — it commands one. This is an object with physical authority, the satisfying weight of something that means to last.
The world
has taken notice
We want to make magic artifacts
Timur Kadyrov,Co-Founder, Hungry Minds
Select the form worthy
of its contents
All that you may
wish to know
The Book is printed on 157gsm premium uncoated paper using high-quality offset lithographic printing with soy-based inks — chosen specifically for their color depth, tactile quality, and longevity. The cream-toned leaves have a slight warmth that gives the volume its aged, manuscript quality.
Yes — The Book is appropriate for all ages. The current edition has removed an earlier section on intimate technologies from the main volume. It is now included separately in a sealed envelope for adult readers, so the book itself may be freely shared with curious young minds.
The Book is currently available in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and Japanese. Further languages may follow should demand warrant the undertaking.
The Book weighs 4.96 lb (2.25 kg) and measures 9.3 × 13.6 × 2 inches. Its physical presence, we are told, is part of what makes the first encounter with it so memorable.
All orders are processed within 5 business days. Tracking information is sent upon dispatch. Express delivery is available for US orders.
978-0-578-37745-2
Some objects are purchased.
Others are inherited.
The Book is the kind of object that outlasts its first owner. That sits on a shelf for decades. That a child picks up one afternoon and carries into adulthood. That is passed along with a handwritten note tucked inside the cover. It was made to survive. It was made to matter. And there is, we would suggest, no finer thing to give - or to give yourself.
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