The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry: A Stanford Professor’s Humorous Graphic Guide to College-Level Science - Couverture souple

Gonick, Larry; Criddle, Craig

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060936770 ISBN 13 : 9780060936778

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2005

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!

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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, earning him a Harvey Award (the “Oscar of Comics”). He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics), a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth. He was staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 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!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060936770
• ISBN 13: 9780060936778
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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