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An edition of Thing Explainer (2015)

Thing Explainer

Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Science, Technology, Miscellanea, Science, popular works, Science, miscellanea, nyt:advice-how-to-and-miscellaneous=2015-12-13, New York Times bestseller, Basic English, Readers

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Table of Contents

Things in this book by page (Table of Contents) Page v
Page before the book starts (Introduction) Page vii
Shared space house (International Space Station) Page 1
Tiny bags of water you're made of (Animal cell) Page 2
Heavy metal power building (Nuclear reactor) Page 3
Red world space car (Curiosity Rover) Page 4
Bags of stuff inside you (Human torso) Page 6
Boxes that make clothes smell better (Washing machine and dryer) Page 7
Earth's surface (Physical map of the Earth) Page 8
Under a car's front cover (Car engine) Page 11
Sky boat with turning wings (Helicopter) Page 13
The US's laws of the land (US Constitution) Page 14
The US's laws of the land (USS Constitution) Page 15
Food-heating radio box (Microwave) Page 16
Shape checker (Padlock) Page 17
Lifting room (Elevator) Page 18
Boat that goes under the sea (Submarine) Page 19
Box tat cleans food holders (Dishwasher) Page 20
Big flat rocks we live on (Tectonic plates) Page 21
Cloud maps (Weather maps) Page 22
Tree (Tree) Page 23
Machine for burning cities (Nuclear bomb) Page 24
Water room (Toilet and sink) Page 25
Computer building (Data center) Page 26
US Space Teams's Up Goer Five (Saturn V rocket) Page 28
Sky boat pusher (Jet engine) Page 30
Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat (Cockpit) Page 31
Big tiny thing hitter (Large Hadron Collider) Page 32
Power boxes (Batteries) Page 33
Hole-making city boat (Oil rig) Page 34
Stuff in the Earth we can burn (Mines) Page 35
Tall roads (Bridges) Page 36
Bending computer (Laptop) Page 37
Worlds around the Sun (Solar system) Page 38
Picture taker (Camera) Page 40
Writing sticks (Pen and pencil) Page 41
Hand computer (Smart phone) Page 42
Colors of light (Electromagnetic spectrum) Page 43
The sky at night (Night sky) Page 44
The pieces everything is made of (Periodic table) Page 47
Our star (Sun) Page 49
How to count things (Units of measurement) Page 50
Room for helping people (Hospital bed) Page 51
Playing fields (Athletic fields) Page 52
Earth's past (Geologic periods of Earth) Page 53
Tree of life (Life's family tree) Page 54
The ten hundred words people use the most (The ten hundred most common words in our language) Page 57
Helpers (Acknowledgments) Page 63
Sky toucher (Skyscraper) Page 65

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Q173, Q173 .M964 2015

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Format
hardcover
Pagination
vii, p65
Number of pages
65
Weight
840 grams

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OL25899644M
ISBN 13
9780544668256
OCLC/WorldCat
915741565

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