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Thing explainer

Hardcover • 2015

Thing explainer

By Randall Munroe

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About the book

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't...Show more

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9781473620919

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John Murray Press

Published year

2015

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Thing explainer

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Hardcover

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