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- Title
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
- ISBN
- 1473637317
- EAN
- 9781473637313
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 2017-10-05
- Publication Name
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- Release Title
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
- Artist
- Munroe, Randall
- Brand
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- Book Title
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 328 mm
- Genre
- Comics
- Topic
- Engineering & Technology, Science
- Item Weight
- 493 g
- Item Width
- 230 mm
- Number of Pages
- 64 Pages
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From the No. 1 bestselling author of WHAT IF? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In THING EXPLAINER, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words. Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our very tall roads ('bridges'), and our computer rooms ('datacentres') - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells). Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we 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 many, 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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Publisher
John Murray Press
ISBN-13
9781473637313
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238997892
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Number of Pages
64 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Engineering & Technology, Science
Genre
Comics
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
328 mm
Item Weight
493 g
Item Width
230 mm
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United Kingdom
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- 28 Nov, 2018
The text looks far to complicated but really isn't. I don't recommend it.
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- 14 May, 2024
Cool book from a recommended eBayer, many thanks. πππ
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- u***q (574)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI buy from this seller all the time and believe them to be the best of the BIG second-hand UK sellers. Comms are excellent and they respond quickly and make a real effort to resolve issues. Pricing is good and descriptions accurate and fair. Postage is free so there won't be any extra packing but I've never had a problem with items damaged in transit.Single & Single (The Penguin John le..., le CarrΓ©, John (#396249277628)