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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Hardcover
Technology & EngineeringGeneral SciencePhysics
Publisher Price: $26.99
ISBN13: 9780544668256
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Published: Nov 24 2015
Pages: 64
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.40 Depth: 13.30
Language: English
- food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
- tall roads (bridges)
- computer buildings (datacenters)
- the shared space house (the International Space Station)
- the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)
- the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)
- the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)
- planes with turning wings (helicopters)
- boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)
- the bags of stuff inside you (cells)
How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone--age 5 to 105--who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
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