$34.27
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2019
Summary
From the #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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473637313 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473637317 |
| Author: | Randall Munroe |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 495g |
| Dimensions: | 328mm x 230mm x 16mm |
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A brilliant concept. If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t really understand it. And Randall Munroe is the perfect guy to take on a project like this … If you know Munroe’s previous work, it will come as no surprise that parts of Thing Explainer are laugh-out-loud funny … filled with cool basic knowledge about how the world works. If one of Munroe’s drawings inspires you to go learn more about a subject - including a few extra terms - then he will have done his job. He has written a wonderful guide for curious minds - BILL GATES
In the crowded field of trivia, nothing beats Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe, the physicist-turned-comic-artist, a sequel to What If ? … It is very funny and has something quite serious to say about our misplaced faith in long words - TelegraphThing Explainer gets to the real essence of things - New ScientistLike any good work of science writing, [Thing Explainer] is equal parts lucid, funny, and startling - NewYorker.comIn just over a decade Randall Munroe has become firmly established and it’s safe to say adored as the author of xkcd. Now, Munroe has produced a book - and Thing Explainer isn’t just any book. It’s beautiful, packed with facts, figures and richly and simply presented diagrams - RegisterWonderful - Neil GaimanReliably amusing and often enlightening - The Times, Books of the YearAbout The Author
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.
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