Name: Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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Author: Randall Munroe
ISBN: 9780544668256

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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Type

Physical Book

Author

Randall Munroe

Publisher

Dey Street Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

33.3 x 23.1 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.82 kg.

ISBN13

9780544668256

Edition No.

Synopsis "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words "

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.

Randall Munroe

(Author)

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Randall Munroe es el autor de How To, ¿Qué pasaría si...? y El explicador de cosas, todos bestsellers de The New York Times; del blog científico de preguntas y respuestas What If?; Dejó su trabajo de robotista de la NASA en 2006 para dibujar cómics en internet de tiempo completo. Actualmente vive en Massachusetts.

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