TY  - GEN
AU  - Munroe, Randall
TI  - Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words
SN  - 9781473637313
U1  - 620.001 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - John Murray
N1  - 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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