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Cartoon Guide to Physics Larry Gonick, Art Huffman, Gonick
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

It also reminded me of these Manga Guides to Physics, Statistics, Biochemistry, Mathematics by NoStarch, which were shared recently by Frank Noschese and Dr Tae. Aside from Action Philosophers and books like The Cartoon Guide to Physics, today's comics have pretty much abandoned overt attempts at educating their readers. Should cartoon characters be smarter than their readers? May I introduce you to Larry Gonick? Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide to Physics is how I survived freshman physics (at which I was terrible), but it sounds like that's not really the level of physics required for this book. Seriously, I think you guys are onto something. I learned more from "The Cartoon Guide to Physics" than any television show could have taught me. For kids that are more serious about their physics Larry Gonick has a cartoon style textbookish work titled (aptly enough)"The Cartoon Guide to Physics". I mentioned in my review of The Manga Guide to Relativity that although Americans associate cartoons with children, that book was not written for children. We also have a couple of helpful new books for those tricky math concepts. Cartoon Guide to Calculus by Larry Gonick Nonfiction cartoonist Gonick tackles Calculus in his latest helpful cartoon guide. This was, of course, not always the case. I'm not really a comic book person myself…but I still think that “The Cartoon Guide To Physics” is very good. The Manga Guide to Physics teaches physics in an innovative way by joining real Japanese-style manga with serious and practical instruction. 3 People Who Cheated Death Using Cartoon Physics. I haven't read his Cartoon Guide to Statistics, but his Cartoon Guide to Genetics is superb. Talk to any Geek and they go misty-eyed over The 'Cartoon History of the Universe', or 'The Cartoon Guide to the Computer'. Ironically, Larry Gonick's Cartoon Guide to Physics averts this, despite using the Rule of Funny, all the actual Physics described in the book is accurate, if simplified in some cases. He also has a good one on Chemistry, and another on Genetics.