Author: Randall Munroe
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473620929
Size: 43.63 MB
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Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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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.
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Author: Brian Davis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319414984
Size: 42.64 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2016, held in Aberdeen, UK, in July 2016. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The topics range from natural languages which are controlled, to controlled languages with a natural language flavour; and from more theoretical results to interfaces, reasoning engines and real-life applications of CNLs.
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Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
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Size: 19.87 MB
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Category : Political ethics
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Katie Egan Cunningham
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ISBN: 1625312830
Size: 53.71 MB
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Category : Classroom environment
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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"Start with Joy is a guidebook describing ways teachers can make joy and purpose the center of their teaching and students' literacy learning. Organized by seven pillars, based on the science of happiness, this book offers reasons why students' happiness matters now more than ever, providing lessons, strategies, resources, and children's literature suggestions for how to make sure joy and purpose are at the heart of all instruction"--
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Size: 41.63 MB
Format: PDF
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Languages : en
Pages : 933
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Size: 77.19 MB
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Pages : 736
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Author: Randall Munroe
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ISBN: 9783813507157
Size: 16.59 MB
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Languages : de
Pages : 68
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Auf jeweils ein bis 2 Seiten erklärt der Comiczeichner und ehemalige Roboteringenieur der NASA in kurzen Sätzen mit den 1.000 gebräuchlichsten Wörtern und durch großformatige, detailreiche Zeichnungen, wie technische Einrichtungen, Alltagsgeräte und naturwissenschaftliche Phänomene funktionieren.