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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.

Customer Reviews (13)

The weakest of Gonick s books
I have all of Gonick s great cartoon books and was really expecting more from this one... I am teaching chemistry and was disappointed. Just compare it with Genetics in cartoons...Chemistry is not as boring as shown here, Larry!

Cartoon guide to chemistry
It is so basic in concepts and the presentation (materials and graphics)is not as good as I thought.It would be useful to show some pages of the book to the customers.

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I am a high school chemistry teacher. I was totally disapointed with the book to the point of returning. It is factually correct, but lame. The only thing I gleaned from this book was the origin of the word alchemist. I would not by this book. William "Douey" Doucette

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
I used this book in conjunction with a textbook in my general chemistry course over the summer.This book helped illustrate things left unclear in my textbook and give a better intuitivefeel for what I was doing.On its own its probably not spectacular since there are gaps to be filled but as a supplement it is amazing.

Great for supplements
I found that this book works well when used with an introductory textbook. The cartoons are great fun for everyone. ... Read more

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Chemistry on a budget
I am a teacher with few supplies at my disposal.This book showed me ways to use common items from a grocery store to demonstrate chemistry without spending a fortune or needing hard to find supplies.The book includes a section on safety, which is very important.It also describes why each experiment works the way it does.This book is best for the elementary or middle school science teacher. ... Read more

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Presenting a cutting-edge theory for using humor in psychotherapy, counseling, and clinical intervention, this volume brings together a group of outstanding experts in the field of clinical intervention. Each chapter shows how humor can play a vital role in the promotion of wellness in general and in mental health wealthness in particular. It provides specific theoretical perspectives aimed at helping readers develop both their awareness of humor as a clinical tool and dexterity in using humor to facilitate productive change during the therapeutic process. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in all areas of the helping and healing professions. In addition to the psychotherapeutic disciplines, it also has applications in human relations and communication-training fields. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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You've never heard of HUGO? Really? Well, don't worry - we can soon change that! Hanno Bolz's cartoons shed a new light on the Human Genome Project and some of the other mysteries of modern genetics. Learn the "true" story behind the unraveling of the infamous genetic code and find out why something as incredibly complex as a human being is encoded with a genetic "alphabet" consisting of just four "letters". (What really happened to the other 22 characters?) Have you ever wondered how a gene subdues a tumor? Or how to fend off annoyingly intrusive reporter genes? More interesting than the Book of Life, this book contains some (not entirely serious) answers to these and other questions. ... Read more

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Strategies of Sex includes verses by a physician-scientistmember of the National Academy of Sciences that are a celebration of thediversity of arrangements (often bizarre) that ensure the propagation ofspecies, from Anableps to surgeonfish. The result is somewhere between ColePorter ("bees do it") and Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("let me count theways..") with a touch of Ogden Nash.

Book 1, focuses on the title topic, Strategies of Sex. Pudgy moorhens,hairy-legged fruit flies, doubly endowed four-eyed fish - whatever turnsyou on - they are all here, immortalized with grace and style. The price oftoo much male enthusiasm is described in "The Ballad of Howie" a four-eyedfish blessed (?) with two sex organs, and in "Never on Sunday, Hunday"about a bull who sired too many calves before dying of exhaustion. In thecase of the fruit fly, Melanogaster, "acts of millisecond brevity interferewith his longevity". But female promiscuity is the subject of "TheRound-Heeled Snakes of Sweden."

Book 2, Annotated Animals, defines the "zoo out there" in which theimplicit verbal defamation of the Slow Loris is decried and doubts areexpressed on the arrival of a "Tiny Pale Whale" at Coney Island. If thatisn't news, then read "The Hippopota-news" or about the dog, man's bestfriend, with "no control at either end".

Book 3 covers - in verse and in prose - a sample of Humanity's Inanities.The author has taken license to indulge in a mixed bag of philosophicalmusings, including an obsession with proper English, ("More Importantly"). ... Read more

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These news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Fertility includes "The Krebsbach's Vacation," "Prophet," "The Six Labors of Father Wilmer," and "Fertility." ... Read more

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Keillor's uniqe ability comes through once more
This cassette features four more stories that only Garrison Keillor could conjure up. It starts with "The Krebsbach's vacation", which portrays two old-timers in the agony of taking a vacation that neiter one wanted to go on. Then comes "Prophet", Keillor's special take on the responsibility of knowing "the truth". "The six labors of Father Wilmer" is a terrific story of a priest who has had it with certain church members. "Fertility" isn't what the title would suggest it is, but it serves to show again that Garrison Keillor brings to the table both in style, and ability, what no one else can. This is another great cassette. ... Read more