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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

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Availability:In StockContributor:Randall MunroePublish date:2015-11-24Pages:64
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dey Street BooksISBN-13:9780544668256ISBN-10:544668251UPC:9780544668256Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Inventions, Scientific Instruments, MechanicsSize:13.00 x 9.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCNXFWP91H
Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
  • food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
  • tall roads (bridges)
  • computer buildings (datacenters)
  • the shared space house (the International Space Station)
  • the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)
  • the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)
  • the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)
  • planes with turning wings (helicopters)
  • boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)
  • the bags of stuff inside you (cells)

How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone--age 5 to 105--who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dey Street BooksISBN-13:9780544668256ISBN-10:544668251UPC:9780544668256Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Inventions, Scientific Instruments, MechanicsSize:13.00 x 9.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCNXFWP91H
Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestseller What If?, the science question-and-answer blog What If?, and the popular webcomic xkcd. In 2006, he left a job building robots at NASA to draw comics on the Internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.
Publisher: Dey Street Books

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Randall Munroe

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