Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

畅销书What if作者新作

比尔盖茨分享2015年读过的*好看的6本书之一

并称之为“满足好奇心的完美指南”

盖茨称：“如果你不能简单地解释某件事，那你就没有真正理解。

作者：Randall Munroe

出版社: John Murray Publishers Ltd; Illustrated edition (2015年11月24日)

精装: 64页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 1473620910

条形码: 9781473620919

商品尺寸: 23.7 x 1.6 x 33.8 cm

商品重量: 508 g

《Thing Explainer》以有趣的方式解释了基本的“为什么”，并告诉你这个世界方方面面的运转方式，假如Munroe的漫画让你尝试去了解这个世界你尚未触及的领域，这本书同样也是一本的基本指南，尤其是给充满好奇心的你。

作者蒙罗是流行网络漫画XKCD的作者，同时也是畅销书What if的作者。盖茨将这本书称之为“满足好奇心的完美指南”。这本书的理念很简单，但实施起来并不容易。就是仅使用1000个常用的英文单词来解释几乎一切事物，包括智能手机、核电站等。

From the N*. 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 really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.

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