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Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words / Randall Munroe.
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Title:Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words / Randall Munroe.
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Variant Title:Complicated stuff in simple words
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Author/Creator:Munroe, Randall, author.
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Published/Created:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015].
©2015
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Call Number: Q173 .M964 2015
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Call Number: Q173 .M964 2015
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Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Miscellanea.
Technology--Miscellanea.
Basic English--Readers.
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Medical Subjects: Science.
Technology.
Physical Phenomena.
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Genre/Form:Trivia and miscellanea.
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Description:61 pages (2 folded), 1 unnumbered folded page : color illustrations, color maps ; 34 cm
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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.
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ISBN:9780544668256 hardcover
0544668251 hardcover
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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.