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Thing Explainer

Randall Munroe

201561 pagesabout 1 hour
2015
first published
  • 2015Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. · ENGISBN 9781635613100
  • 2015Hodder & Stoughton · ENGISBN 9781473620926
  • 2015Hodder & Stoughton · 64 pages · ENGISBN 9781473620919
  • 2015Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 64 pages · ENGISBN 9780544668607
  • 2015Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 65 pages · ENGISBN 9780544668256
  • 2016Czarna Owca · 72 pagesISBN 9788380155022
  • 2015UNIEBOEK | HET SPECTRUM · 61 pagesISBN 9789000347667
  • John Murray Publishers LtdISBN 9781473637313

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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