A. Zee
This is a fantastic book—entertaining, informative, enjoyable, and thought-provoking.
Endorsement
The Dialogues is everything I would have loved as a teen physics nerd, and exactly what I want the public—and my fellow scientists—reading now that I'm a professional physics nerd. The Dialogues successfully upends tired traditions in science writing, which all too often rely on outdated tropes about what science is, what scientists look like, and what we can trust the public to understand.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, theoretical physicist, activist, and writer, recipient of the 2017 lgbt+physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award
Henry Jenkins
Two superheroes walk into a natural history museum—what happens after that will have you thinking and talking for a long time to come. Clifford V. Johnson's The Dialogues joins a select few examples of recent texts, such as Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe, Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland, or Joe Sacco's Palestine, which use the affordances of graphic storytelling as pedagogical tools for changing the ways we think about the world around us. Johnson displays a solid grasp of the craft of comics, demonstrating how this medium can be used to represent different understandings of the relationship between time and space, questions central to his native field of physics. He takes advantage of the observational qualities of contemporary graphic novels to explore the place of scientific thinking in our everyday lives.
From the Publisher
This is a fantastic book—entertaining, informative, enjoyable, and thought-provoking.
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A. Zee, Kavil Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara; author of
Fearful Symmetry and
Quantum Field Theory in a NutshellTwo superheroes walk into a natural history museum—what happens after that will have you thinking and talking for a long time to come. Clifford V. Johnson's The Dialogues joins a select few examples of recent texts, such as Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe, Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland, or Joe Sacco's Palestine, which use the affordances of graphic storytelling as pedagogical tools for changing the ways we think about the world around us. Johnson displays a solid grasp of the craft of comics, demonstrating how this medium can be used to represent different understandings of the relationship between time and space, questions central to his native field of physics. He takes advantage of the observational qualities of contemporary graphic novels to explore the place of scientific thinking in our everyday lives.
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Henry Jenkins, Media Scholar, University of Southern California; author of
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media CollideThe Dialogues is everything I would have loved as a teen physics nerd, and exactly what I want the public—and my fellow scientists—reading now that I'm a professional physics nerd. The Dialogues successfully upends tired traditions in science writing, which all too often rely on outdated tropes about what science is, what scientists look like, and what we can trust the public to understand.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, theoretical physicist, activist, and writer, recipient of the 2017 lgbt+physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The Dialogues is everything I would have loved as a teen physics nerd, and exactly what I want the public—and my fellow scientists—reading now that I'm a professional physics nerd. The Dialogues successfully upends tired traditions in science writing, which all too often rely on outdated tropes about what science is, what scientists look like, and what we can trust the public to understand.
