Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words
Munroe, Randall
Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words - Great Britain John Murray 2015 - v,61p.
Contents
THINGS IN THIS BOOK BY PAGE
Page before the book starts vii
Introduction
Shared space house 1
International Space Station
Tiny bags of water you're made of 2
Animal cell
Heavy metal power building 3
Nuclear reactor
Red world space car 4
Curiosity Rover
Bags of stuff inside you 6
Human torso
Boxes that make clothes smell better 7
Washing machme and dryer
Earth's surface 8
Physical map of the Earth
Under a car's front cover 11
Car engine
Sky boat with turning wings 13
Helicopter
The US's laws of the land 14
US Constitution
The US's Laws of the Land 15
USS Constitution
Food-heating radio box 16
Microwave
Shape checker 17
Padlock
Lifting room 18
Elevator
Boat that goes under the sea 19
Submarine
Box that cleans food holders 20
Dishwasheer
Big flat rocks we live on 21
Tectonic Plates
Cloud maps 22
Weather maps
Tree 23
Tree
Machine for burning cities 24
Nuclear bomb
Water room 25
Toilet and sink
Computer building 26
Data center
US Space Team's Up Goer Five 28
Saturn V rocket
Sky boat pusher 30
Jet engine
Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat 31
Cockpit
Big tiny thing hitter 32
Large Hadron Collider
Power boxes 33
Batteries
Hole-making city boat 34
Oil rig
Stuff in the Earth we can burn 35
Mines
Tall roads 36
Bridges
Bending computer 37
Laptop
Worlds around the Sun 38
Solar system
Picture take 40
Camera
Writing sticks 41
Pen and pencil
Hand computer 42
Smart phone
Colors of light 43
Electromagnetic spectrum
The sky at night 44
Niqht sky
The pieces everything is made of 47
Periodic able
Our star 49
Sun
How to count things 50
Units of measurement
Room for helping people 51
Hospital bed
Playing fields 52
Athletic fields
Earth's past 53
Geologic periods of Earth
Tree of life 54
Life's family tree
The ten hundred words people use the most 57
The ten-hundred most common words in our language
Helpers 61
Acknowledgements
Sky toucher 65
Skyscraper
9781473637313
620.001 / MUN
Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words - Great Britain John Murray 2015 - v,61p.
Contents
THINGS IN THIS BOOK BY PAGE
Page before the book starts vii
Introduction
Shared space house 1
International Space Station
Tiny bags of water you're made of 2
Animal cell
Heavy metal power building 3
Nuclear reactor
Red world space car 4
Curiosity Rover
Bags of stuff inside you 6
Human torso
Boxes that make clothes smell better 7
Washing machme and dryer
Earth's surface 8
Physical map of the Earth
Under a car's front cover 11
Car engine
Sky boat with turning wings 13
Helicopter
The US's laws of the land 14
US Constitution
The US's Laws of the Land 15
USS Constitution
Food-heating radio box 16
Microwave
Shape checker 17
Padlock
Lifting room 18
Elevator
Boat that goes under the sea 19
Submarine
Box that cleans food holders 20
Dishwasheer
Big flat rocks we live on 21
Tectonic Plates
Cloud maps 22
Weather maps
Tree 23
Tree
Machine for burning cities 24
Nuclear bomb
Water room 25
Toilet and sink
Computer building 26
Data center
US Space Team's Up Goer Five 28
Saturn V rocket
Sky boat pusher 30
Jet engine
Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat 31
Cockpit
Big tiny thing hitter 32
Large Hadron Collider
Power boxes 33
Batteries
Hole-making city boat 34
Oil rig
Stuff in the Earth we can burn 35
Mines
Tall roads 36
Bridges
Bending computer 37
Laptop
Worlds around the Sun 38
Solar system
Picture take 40
Camera
Writing sticks 41
Pen and pencil
Hand computer 42
Smart phone
Colors of light 43
Electromagnetic spectrum
The sky at night 44
Niqht sky
The pieces everything is made of 47
Periodic able
Our star 49
Sun
How to count things 50
Units of measurement
Room for helping people 51
Hospital bed
Playing fields 52
Athletic fields
Earth's past 53
Geologic periods of Earth
Tree of life 54
Life's family tree
The ten hundred words people use the most 57
The ten-hundred most common words in our language
Helpers 61
Acknowledgements
Sky toucher 65
Skyscraper
9781473637313
620.001 / MUN