Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: Collins May 3, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0060936770
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060936778
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
A refreshingly humorous but thorough ancillary guide to general chemistry from the author of the bestselling
The Cartoon Guide to Physics and
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics.
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, a collaboration between pre–eminent scientist Professor Craig Criddle of
Stanford University and cartoonist Larry Gonick, is a complete and up–to–date course in college level chemistry. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, the book covers both the history and the basics, including early ideas and techniques, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, physics as chemistry; and much more.
o Ideal for advanced high school students, university students and independent learners.
o o Larry Gonick's bestselling Cartoon Guide series, comprised of eleven books, have sold more than a half a million copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages.
o Teachers, researchers, and students around the world have embraced Larry Gonick's unique ability to make difficult subjects fun, interesting and easy–to–understand while still relaying the essential information in a clear, organized and accurate format. In 2003 Larry Gonick won the Harvey Award for the year's best graphic album of original material for The Cartoon History of the Universe III. The prestigious award, named for Mad pioneer Harvey Kurtzman is considered to be the Oscar of the comic–book world.
About The Author
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than thirty years, starting with Blood from a Stone:
A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform in 1971. He has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and is currently staff cartoonist for
Muse magazine. He has nearly one million copies of the Cartoon Guides in print.
Reader ReviewsFor someone that is just learning about chemistry this book is excellant. It provides a whimiscal and fun overview of chemistry that makes learning chemistry interesting. It also includes highlights of chemistry that illustrate how chemical principles were discovered. And it also illustrates in an interesting manner the applications and importance of chemistry. If you are about to take your first chemistry class or have never had a chemistry class, this book will be a good introduction to chemistry. Or if it has been awhile since you have had chemistry this book may be an interesting review. Note: While interesting reading, this book would be too light to be used as a text book for a class. It makes an interesting supplement.
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