xkcd: Thing Explainer

The Book
The World

The Book

Cover of the book Thing Explainer

In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells).

The World

Coming soon from these publishers worldwide...

Language | Publisher | Pub Date
United States & Canada | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | November 24th, 2015
available to order from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, Hudson, Books-a-Million.
UK & Commonwealth | John Murray | 24 November 2015
available for order from Amazon.co.uk, Waterstones.
German | Knaus Verlag | 24 November 2015
available for order from Randomhouse and Amazon.de.
Dutch | Spectrum | 24 November 2015
available to order from Bol.com.
Swedish | Volante | 24 November 2015
available to order from Adlibris and Bokus .

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