Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What If?, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. 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, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they’re getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we 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.
發表於2024-05-09
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著 安康小確幸 封麵最顯眼的位置上,用箭頭指著最大的字——《萬物解釋者》,寫著“最大的字告訴你這本書講什麼”,書的英文名為《THING EXPLAINER》。左下角,另一個箭頭指著一串英文名,寫著這是“我的名字”,作者的中文名為蘭道爾·門羅。 這是一本被比爾·蓋茨極力推薦...
評分 評分著 安康小確幸 封麵最顯眼的位置上,用箭頭指著最大的字——《萬物解釋者》,寫著“最大的字告訴你這本書講什麼”,書的英文名為《THING EXPLAINER》。左下角,另一個箭頭指著一串英文名,寫著這是“我的名字”,作者的中文名為蘭道爾·門羅。 這是一本被比爾·蓋茨極力推薦...
評分 評分不記得什麼渠道看到這本書,就記下來,買迴來自己看的。沒有想到,這本書被我傢小屁孩霸占瞭!成瞭3歲半小孩子的睡前故事! 書中是以圖的形式錶現的,但是實際上,文字部分非常多,有很多圖上的注釋之類的,是小孩子可以理解的平實的科學知識。 我傢孩子最喜歡“高路”,“汽車...
圖書標籤: 科普 思維 英文原版 比爾蓋茨推薦 RandallMunroe 閑讀 比爾蓋茨 2015
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評分It was mentioned on Gates Notes, so I took a look. It's indeed a good book. I wish it was published when I was little. It's fun to read, and more importantly, it makes sense of things. Thing explainer.
評分這本書的路綫非常神奇,有空我一定寫一個書評(for real
評分這本書的路綫非常神奇,有空我一定寫一個書評(for real
評分Over-simplification lowered the quality of this book.
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