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.
1 有用 款冬君 2016-09-02
超可爱的说明书!
0 有用 💊vincentheo 2017-09-16
读这书的很大一部分乐趣来源于单凭标题,或者正文先来猜测一番作者指的是什么。于我而言,最有用有益的部分是美国宪法及修正案一节,不知这部分在中国译本里是否保留了。
1 有用 疾走 2016-08-30
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... 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. (展开)
1 有用 水 2017-05-13
买了一年了,再读有种想要翻译的冲动
2 有用 ccangelacc 2016-09-03
Over-simplification lowered the quality of this book.
0 有用 張新亞 2018-11-08
三四年前读的,觉得真是太酷了!有好多处惊呼从没想过可以这样看世界~
0 有用 水芝盈盈 2018-09-13
Oh, you are so cute.
0 有用 鸟枪换炮 2018-08-09
想法不错,画风也有卖点,但实际上感觉不出explain了多少东西。
0 有用 ichbinluz 2018-08-05
就真正挑战的是如何用文末那1000个简单词去描述复杂事物。
0 有用 Eyre艾尔 2018-02-14
因为What If才知道的作者,结果拖到现在what if还没看完...整本书都好棒啊,包括字体颜色排版,开锁那篇深得我心。不过看完了才发现目录页是有一行小字对应每个标题的术语,之前还猜的很带劲。看的过程中很希望有本对应的专业版,不自觉就想知道这些用专业词汇怎么说🤧