EAN: 9780544668256

THING EXPLAINER - RANDALL MUNROE GEBUNDEN

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.

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