Cartoon Guide to the Environment

Cartoon Guide to the Environment

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher: Collins Reference
  • ISBN: 9780062732743
  • Category : Study Aids
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warming—and puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.


The Cartoon Guide to Biology

The Cartoon Guide to Biology

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
  • ISBN: 9780062398659
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

From New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner comes this comprehensive and humorous cartoon guide to topics in biology. Did you faint when your middle school science teacher asked you to dissect a frog? Do you think DNA stands for “Don’t Know the Answer”? Do you still cling to the belief that osmosis was the name of Ozzy Osbourne’s last tour? If you said yes to any of these questions—or even if you didn’t—then you need The Cartoon Guide to Biology. The latest from New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick—writing with Davidson College biology professor David Wessner—is a hilarious and informative handbook to the science of life. From the inner workings of the cell, to the magic of gene expression, to the Krebs and Calvin cycles, to sexual and asexual reproduction, The Cartoon Guide to Biology uses simple, clear, humorous illustrations to make biology’s most complex concepts understandable and entertaining. Whether you’re peering into the microscope for the first time or brushing up after decades of de-evolution, this book has you covered.


The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0060936770
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

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!


Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Cartoon Guide to Statistics

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0062731025
  • Category : Study Aids
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!


The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, Revised Edition

The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, Revised Edition

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  • Author: Yoram Bauman
  • Publisher: Island Press
  • ISBN: 1642832332
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

A lot has happened to the climate over the last decade, and the authors tackle the daunting statistics with their trademark humor. They realize it's better to laugh than cry when confronting mind-blowing facts about our changing world. Readers will become familiar with critical concepts, but they'll also smile as they learn about climate science, projections, and policy.


The Cartoon History of the Universe

The Cartoon History of the Universe

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  • Category : World history
  • Languages : en
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Hypercapitalism

Hypercapitalism

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781620972823
  • Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Machine generated contents note: Companies mentioned and location: -- Advanced Technology Services, Peoria, IL Caterpillar, Peoria, IL World's Finest Chocolate, Chicago, IL Milwaukee Gear, Milwaukee, WI Ford Motor Company, St. Louis, MO Wunderlich Fibre Box Company, St. Louis, MO General Motors, St. Louis, MO; Wentzville, MO Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, MO McDonald-Douglas, St. Louis, MO Industrial Engineering and Equipment Company (Indeeco), St. Louis, MO; Brentwood, MO; Boonville and Cuba, MO ASPEQ Holdings (a private equity firm), St. Louis, MO Emerson Electric, Ferguson, MO GlaxoSmithKline (manufacturing Tums), St. Louis, MO


The Cartoon Guide to the Computer

The Cartoon Guide to the Computer

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  • Author: Larry Gonnick
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • ISBN: 9780062730978
  • Category : Study Aids
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

A fun and easy way to learn about computers, now redesigned to match the other cartoon guides. Illustrated with cartoons throughout.


Cartoon Guide to Genetics

Cartoon Guide to Genetics

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 9780062730992
  • Category : Study Aids
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis? Watson and Crick? Aren't they a team of British detectives? Plant sex? Can they do that? Is Genetic Mutation the name of one of those heavy metal bands? Asparagine? Which of the four food groups is that in? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to Genetics to explain the important concepts of classical and modern genetics—it's not only educational, it's funny too!


Kokopelli & Company in Attack of the Smart Pies

Kokopelli & Company in Attack of the Smart Pies

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  • Author: Larry Gonick
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780812627404
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

Feather, one of the New Muses who provide humans with inspiration, reluctantly helps Kokopelli to aim giant, self-guided pies at Urania while trying to help an orphan girl find some answers about her family.