The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry

by Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060936778
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/03/2005
Series:	Cartoon Guide Series
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	129,896
Product dimensions:	7.24(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.66(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, math, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. 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 College.

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