HPB Carriage Place
2642 Bethel RdStore Hours:
Monday 10 AM -9 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -9 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -9 PM
Thursday 10 AM -9 PM
Friday 10 AM -9 PM
Saturday 10 AM -9 PM
Sunday 10 AM -9 PM
HPB West Lane Avenue 1389 W Lane Ave Columbus, OH 43221
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Carriage Place 2642 Bethel Rd Columbus, OH 43220
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -9 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -9 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -9 PM
Thursday 10 AM -9 PM
Friday 10 AM -9 PM
Saturday 10 AM -9 PM
Sunday 10 AM -9 PM
HPB Westerville 561 S State St Westerville, OH 43081
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB Reynoldsburg 8107 E Broad St Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
HPB NorthPointe Plaza 100 Meadow Park Ave Lewis Center, OH 43035
Store Hours:
Monday 10 AM -8 PM
Tuesday 10 AM -8 PM
Wednesday 10 AM -8 PM
Thursday 10 AM -8 PM
Friday 10 AM -8 PM
Saturday 10 AM -8 PM
Sunday 10 AM -8 PM
Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest--or even the most basic--technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, or even how to produce food for yourself?
Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can't hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn't just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all--the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself.
The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world.