The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
$67.38
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2005
Summary
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.
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 basi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060936778 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0060936770 |
| Author: | Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 349g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 187mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Cartoon Guide Series |
About The Author
Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. 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, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.
Craig Criddle is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science at Stanford University and has written numerous scientific papers.
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