Thing Explainer : Complicated stuff in simple words

Randall Munroe

ISBN 10: 1473620910 / ISBN 13: 9781473620919

Published by John Murray Publisher, 2015

About this Item

Book condition is near fine. Hard cover. No dust jacket. 1st edition. Book block clean. Book boards clean front and back. Spine intact. Text body clean. Overall an excellent and neat copy. This is a Book of pictures and simple words. Each page explains however some important ir interesting work, use only the ten hundred words in our language that people use the most. See photo for synopsis on how the book works.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1676965358610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thing Explainer : Complicated stuff in simple words
• Publisher: John Murray Publisher
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473620910
• ISBN 13: 9781473620919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Thing Complicated Stuff in Simple Words [Hardcover] Munroe, Randall

From the Inside Flap

From the creator of the webcomicxkcdand author of the #1New York TimesbestsellerWhat If?, a series of brilliantly and simply! annotated blueprints that explain everything from nuclear bombs to ballpoint pens

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? InThing 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.
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