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Thing Explainer de Randall Munroe

Thing Explainer

Autor Randall Munroe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2015

Subliniem importanța volumului Thing Explainer ca instrument pedagogic neconvențional, relevant pentru oricine dorește să stăpânească arta comunicării științifice sau să înțeleagă fundamentele tehnologiei fără jargon academic. Considerăm că această lucrare reprezintă un exercițiu de claritate extremă: Randall Munroe își autoimpune utilizarea celor mai frecvente 1.000 de cuvinte ale limbii engleze pentru a descrie mecanisme complexe, de la „cutiile radio care încălzesc mâncarea” (cuptorul cu microunde) până la „drumurile foarte înalte” (podurile). Această abordare elimină barierele terminologice care adesea descurajează studenții sau entuziaștii aflați la început de drum. Spre deosebire de What If?, unde autorul explorează scenarii ipotetice absurde prin rigoare științifică, Thing Explainer se concentrează pe realitatea imediată, demontând obiecte cotidiene și fenomene naturale prin diagrame de tip „blueprint”. Este o alternativă vizuală și minimalistă la How Science Works (DK) pentru cursurile de popularizare a științei, având avantajul unei abordări ludice care forțează cititorul să gândească în afara definițiilor de dicționar. În contextul operei sale, dacă How To oferă soluții inutile de complicate pentru probleme simple, acest volum face exact opusul, oferind explicații simple pentru cele mai complicate structuri ale lumii noastre. Ritmul este alert, susținut de umorul sec specific stilului xkcd, transformând procesul de învățare într-o experiență vizuală captivantă, validată de includerea în lista Gates Notes - Cărți recomandate de Bill Gates.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780544668256
ISBN-10: 0544668251
Pagini: 61
Dimensiuni: 235 x 338 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Colecția Dey Street Books
Locul publicării:China

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui spirit curios care dorește să înțeleagă esența lucrurilor fără a se pierde în terminologie tehnică. Este un instrument excelent pentru profesori și studenți deopotrivă, oferind un model despre cum pot fi simplificate ideile mari fără a le pierde acuratețea. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra lumii înconjurătoare, de la tectonica plăcilor la centrele de date, totul prin prisma geniului creativ al lui Randall Munroe.

Despre autor

Randall Munroe (n. 1984) este un autor, desenator și fost inginer NASA american, devenit celebru la nivel mondial ca creator al webcomicului xkcd. Cu o pregătire solidă în fizică și robotică, Munroe a reușit să îmbine rigoarea științifică cu un stil grafic minimalist și un umor inteligent. Succesul său în popularizarea științei este confirmat de bestsellerurile sale New York Times și de recunoașterea primită din partea unor figuri precum Bill Gates. Opera sa este definită de dorința de a explora necunoscutul și de a face cunoașterea accesibilă tuturor, indiferent de bagajul lor educațional.

Descriere scurtă

Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
 
  • food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)
  • tall roads (bridges)
  • computer buildings (datacenters)
  • the shared space house (the International Space Station)
  • the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)
  • the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)
  • the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)
  • planes with turning wings (helicopters)
  • boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)
  • the bags of stuff inside you (cells)

How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

Recenzii

“Brilliant…a wonderful guide for curious minds.”—Bill Gates     “Like any good work of science writing, [Thing Explainer] is equal parts lucid, funny, and startling.’’—NewYorker.com   "Clever, intricate" —New York Magazine, The Approval Matrix ("highbrow, brilliant")   "Funny, precise and beautifully designed" —The Guardian   "...with witty, playful diagrams, you'll be understanding nuclear reactors ('heavy metal power buildings') in no time." —NPR.org, Best Books of 2015   "Whimsical...Munroe’s masterpiece is the antidote to scientific jargon, ably demonstrating that not knowing the exact name for something doesn’t mean you can’t grasp how it works. The same holds for those doing the explaining: you don’t need to use big words to convey meaning. If anything, it just gets in the way." —Gizmodo, Best Science Books of 2015   "Required reading for the curious." —Popular Science   "This book is a feast for the eyes and a party for your brain. I cannot more highly recommend that you get this for yourself, your favorite nerd, or someone who just loves beautiful drawings." —Scientific American   "One of the charms of this new book is that it imbues everything between its covers with a childlike and unpretentious sense of delight in humanity's intellectual achievements."—Tor.com   "[Thing Explainer] soars in both explanatory clarity and entertainment value...Munroe delightfully challenges us to reassess our preconceptions and think of things in new ways." —American Scientist   “Munroe’s signature humor and firm grasp on the underlying science and engineering make the book a delightful and informative read.” —Science Magazine   "Thing Explainer overall is unintimidating and engaging, with lavish blueprint-like illustrations that draw you into just about every page...Munroe has a gift for turning his own curiosity into your own edification."  —CNET   "I think a lot of people will have a lot of fun reading this book. Even if you know many big ideas, it is fun to see them get very small. And if you just want to learn about how things work, then the book will show you some big ideas without hitting you with big words too. As an idea for how to write a book, I think Thing Explainer is a good one." —Nerdist  PRAISE FOR WHAT IF?     "Toreinvigorate your sense of cosmic wonder...breeze through former NASA scientist Munroe's lively answers—peppered with line drawings—to some pretty bizarre questions about life, the universe, and everything else...Extreme astrophysics and indecipherable chemistry have rarely been this clearly explained or this consistently hilarious."—Entertainment Weekly "10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year"     "Catchy and approachable...There's plenty of scientific rigor behind his elaborate explanations but he punctuates them with sly humor and winningly primitive cartoon diagrams...A cut above so many popular science and technology books."—NPR.org     "Consistently fascinating and entertaining...Munroe leavens the hard science with whimsical touches...An illuminating handbook of methods of reasoning —

Notă biografică

Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the Internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.

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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. 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.Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our very tall roads ('bridges'), and our computer rooms ('datacentres') - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).

Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button?In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and many, many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why.