From the No. 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.
WHAT IF was a huge international bestseller around the world. John Murray have sold over 100,000 copies. THING EXPLAINER is the perfect next step from the answering of unanswerable hypothetical questions... Now Randall Munroe wants to explain how the various key machines crucial to modern life - eg. iphone, expresso machine and space shuttle - work from the inside out.
Reliably amusing and often enlightening
