The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry: A Humorous Illustrated College-Level Course?From Solubility and the Mole to Biochemistry (Cartoon Guide Series)

Gonick, Larry; Criddle, Craig

ISBN 10: 0060936770 / ISBN 13: 9780060936778

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry: A Humorous Illustrated College-Level Course?From Solubility and the Mole to Biochemistry (Cartoon Guide Series)
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060936770
• ISBN 13: 9780060936778
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 10 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

If you have ever suspected that "heavy water" is the title of a bootleg Pink Floyd album, believed that surface tension is an anxiety disorder, or imagined that a noble gas is the result of a heavy meal at Buckingham Palace, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry to set you on the road to chemical literacy!

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, a collaboration between preeminent scientist Professor Craig Criddle of Stanford University and cartoonist Larry Gonick, is a complete and up-to-date course in college-level chemistry. In 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!

You don't need to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry explains them all: the history and basics of chemistry, atomic theory, combustion, solubility, reaction stoichiometry, the mole, entropy, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Chemistry will never be the same!

About the Authors

LARRY GONICK has been creating comics that explain math, history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His Cartoon Guide series has enjoyed immense success. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He was staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.

Larry Gonick's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Craig Criddle is a professor of environmental engineering and science at Stanford University and has written numerous scientific papers.