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    Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words / Randall Munroe.

    • Title:Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words / Randall Munroe.
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    • Variant Title:Complicated stuff in simple words
    • Author/Creator:Munroe, Randall, author.
    • Published/Created:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015].
      ©2015
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Miscellanea.
      Technology--Miscellanea.
      Basic English--Readers.
    • Medical Subjects: Science.
      Technology.
      Physical Phenomena.
    • Genre/Form:Trivia and miscellanea.
      Readers (Publications)
    • Description:61 pages (2 folded), 1 unnumbered folded page : color illustrations, color maps ; 34 cm
    • Summary:The creator of the webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and just ten hundred common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.
    • ISBN:9780544668256 hardcover
      0544668251 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Introduction
      Shared space house
      International Space Station
      Tiny bags of water you're made of
      Animal Cell
      Heavy metal power building
      Nuclear reactor
      Red world space car
      Curiosity Rover
      Bags of stuff inside you
      Human torso
      Boxes that make clothes smell better
      Washing machine and dryer
      Earth's surface
      Physical map of the Earth
      Under a car's front cover
      Car engine
      Sky boat with turning wings
      Helicopter
      US's laws of the land
      US Constitution
      US's Laws of the Land
      USS Constitution
      Food-heating radio box
      Microwave
      Shape checker
      Padlock
      Lifting room
      Elevator
      Boat that goes under the sea
      Submarine
      Box that cleans food holders
      Dishwasher
      Big flat rocks we live on
      Tectonic plates
      Cloud maps
      Weather maps
      Tree
      Tree
      Machine for burning cities
      Nuclear bomb
      Water room
      Toilet and sink
      Computer building
      Data center
      US Space Team's Up Goer Five
      Saturn V rocket
      Sky boat pusher
      Jet engine
      Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat
      Cockpit
      Big tiny thing hitter
      Large Hadron Collider
      Power boxes
      Batteries
      Hole-making city boat
      Mines
      Stuff in the Earth we can burn
      Mines
      Tall roads
      Bridges
      Bending computer
      Laptop
      Worlds around the Sun
      Solar system
      Picture taker
      Camera
      Writing sticks
      Pen and pencil
      Hand computer
      Smart phone
      Colors of light
      Electromagnetic spectrum
      sky at night
      Night sky
      pieces everything is made of
      Periodic table
      Our star
      Sun
      How to count things
      Units of measurement
      Room for helping people
      Hospital bed
      Playing fields
      Athletic fields
      Earth's past
      Geologic periods of Earth
      Tree of life
      Life's family tree
      ten hundred words people use the most
      ten hundred most common words in our language
      Helpers
      Acknowledgments
      Sky toucher.
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