num_pages: 64
description: 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 1000 (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).
language: English
title: Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
publisher: Dey Street Books