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Associated Students Full- and Part-Time Employee Book Club

This Book Club is for Associated Students (A.S.) Full- & Part-time Employees Only.

The A.S. Book Club meets at 4:30 PM every second Thursday of each month in the Council Chambers located on the 3rd floor of the Aztec Student Union. At our meetings each member shares their thoughts and ideas about the book, what they like and didn’t like about it. And at the end of the meeting, we each rate the book from 1 to 5 stars, with 5 being great!

If you are thinking about joining the Club but don’t want the expense of purchasing a book each month, the San Diego Public Library offers print books, eBooks and audiobooks, for most titles. All you need is a library card, and its FREE! Or listen for FREE on the library’s app, the Libby App by OverDrive. If you would like to join or need more information, please contact Quentin, qskaggs@sdsu.edu or 42303.

 

Cover of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

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