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(16,833 posts) Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:26 AM Sunday

Adam Savage Delighted by This Illustrated Guide to Rebuilding Civilization ("The Book")

The book is The Book. The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization, by Hungry Minds.

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Adam Savage Delighted by This Illustrated Guide to Rebuilding Civilization

Adam Savage’s Tested
Jan 16 2025

After being recommended this coffee table book by the algorithm in Adam's feed, he's pleasantly surprised to be delighted by the illustrations and tongue-in-cheek approach to this encyclopedic "guide to rebuilding civilization." For Adam, this kind of book reminds him of another childhood favorite: David Macaulay's "The Way Things Work".

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Adam Savage Delighted by This Illustrated Guide to Rebuilding Civilization ("The Book") (Original Post) sl8 Sunday OP

Adam seems like an interesting and nice fellow, but... LudwigPastorius Sunday #1

Looks like an interesting book JoseBalow Sunday #2

LudwigPastorius

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1. Adam seems like an interesting and nice fellow, but...

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Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:47 PM

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his style of delivery makes me sincerely wonder if he has ADHD.

The constant moving and fidgeting kind of makes him hard to watch.

JoseBalow

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2. Looks like an interesting book

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Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:29 PM

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It's over $100 to buy, and it's not in my library or inter-library loan system, so I submitted a purchase request for it. I did find a scan of it in the Internet Archive, and there's also a PDF on Anna's.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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