A review by lanceschaubert
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

5.0

An engineer's handbook for the ignorant and the young. Wonderful way to get at concepts without bogging down in the jargon or acronyms — which, in a way, indicts the entire industry of naming complicated things in complicated ways to preserve the elitism of a few masters instead of proliferating expertise broadly.

This book fits more with the industrial revolution than it does in a world overrun by specialists.