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The Book

The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization. English version 🇬🇧 Sélectionnez la langue de The Book
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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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Sur quel type de papier les livres sont-ils imprimés ?
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978-0-578-37745-2

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Poids: 2,25 kg / 4,96 lb
Dimensions: 23 x 4,9 x 34 cm / 9,0 x 2,0 x 13,4 po

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The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization. English version 🇬🇧
The Book
€119,00
€119,00

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 5,000+ Hours
of Creation
400+ Pages of Knowledge 400+ Pages
of Knowledge
1,000+ Hand-Drawn Illustrations 1,000+ Hand-Drawn
Illustrations
$3M+ Raised by Believers $3M+ Raised by
Believers
Translated into 6 languages worldwide 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.

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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.

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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
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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.

4.96 lb Weight
13.6" Height
9.3" Width
400+ Pages
157 gsm Paper Weight
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The world
has taken notice

We want to make magic artifacts

Timur Kadyrov,
Co-Founder, Hungry Minds
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Select the form worthy
of its contents

The Book The Book

The full, uncompromised volume. 400+ pages. 1,000+ hand-drawn illustrations. Silver-embossed cover, sewn binding, lithographic soy-ink printing. The complete document of civilization.

€119,00
The Book in a gift box The Book in a gift box

The complete Book presented within an elegant, sturdy gift box - a collector's edition that transforms the volume into an occasion. For when the recipient deserves to understand, from the moment of unwrapping, that this is no ordinary thing.

€139,00
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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

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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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