Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words

By:

Munroe, Randall

Publication details: Great Britain John Murray 2015Description: v,61pISBN:

9781473637313

DDC classification:

620.001 MUN

Contents:

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

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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

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