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The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and 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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Main Author: Munroe, Randall (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
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Science > Miscellanea.
Technology > Miscellanea.
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Summary:The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and 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.
Physical Description:61 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm + 1 poster.
ISBN:9780544668256 (hardcover)
0544668251 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Randall Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania on October 17, 1984. He received a degree in physics from 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. He is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the New York Times bestseller What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.

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