Comic books in 'Cartoon Guide/History/Introduction to...'

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1st printing. By Larry Gonick and Craig Criddle. In engaging and humorous graphic style, these Cartoon Guides, featuring topics ranging from chemisty to sex, are complete, up-to-date discussions that use cartoon drawings to illustrate the various topics. Softcover, 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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Updated Edition - 2nd and later printings. By Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis. It really is easier to learn molecular biology visually! Watch those cartoon enzymes twitch and wiggle - just like the real thing - as you perceive DNA and RNA structure, transcription, translation, protein synthesis, and gene regulation at a glance from these cartoon drawings. Softcover, 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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2nd and later printings. By Larry Gonick and Alice Outwater. Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an online restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? 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. Softcover, 240 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution!" By Larry Gonick. Beginning with Columbus's arrival on America's shores, master cartoonist, historian, and storyteller Larry Gonick traces the history of humanity through to the United States' emergence as a world superpower, the technological revolution, and the resurgence of militant religion. Softcover, 260 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

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2nd and later printings. By Larry Gonick. What? You don't know what a Burgess is? You can't outline the Monroe Doctrine? Recall the 14th Amendment? Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik? Then you need The Cartoon History of the United Statesto to fill those gaps. From the first English colonies to the Gulf War and the S&L debacle, Larry Gonick spells it all out from his unique cartoon perspective. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 388 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

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1st printing.

Written by David Wessner and Larry Gonick. Art by Larry Gonick.

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! 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!

Softcover, 320 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

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1st printing.

Written by Yoram Bauman. Art and cover by Kevin Cannon.

The internationally bestselling authors of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics return to make calculus fun! The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has teamed up once again with the world's only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., to take on the daunting subject of calculus.

A supplement to traditional textbooks, The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus focuses on the big ideas rather than all the formulas you have to memorize.

Softcover, 224 pages, B&W.

Cover price $18.95.

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1st printing. By Larry Gonick. What's so funny about a trapezoid? Plus, what is a trapezoid? Cartoonist Larry Gonick unlocks the formula to understanding geometry in the latest entry in his bestselling Cartoon Guide series. Moving from the most basic precepts of geometry-planes, lines, and points-to elaborate proofs, The Cartoon Guide to Geometry is a comprehensive primer on all the essential ideas of the subject: angles, triangles, area, similarity, and yes, the Pythagorean theorem. As with Gonick's other books, the material is carefully tailored to the curriculum standards and standardized testing guidelines of the subject, ensuring that students emerge from The Cartoon Guide to Geometry with a deep grasp of the key ideas. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, B&W. All Ages Cover price $26.00.

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Volume 3 - 2nd and later printings. "From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance!" By Larry Gonick. Highlighting key events and retrieving oft-neglected historical connections, Gonick offers an historical survey that is at once multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and laugh-out-loud funny. This long-awaited new volume offers an irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 320 pages, B&W. Cover price $21.95.

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. "From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome!" Collects Cartoon History of the Universe (1979) #8-13. By Larry Gonick. Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 320 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.

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Volume 2 - 2nd and later printings. "From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome!" Collects Cartoon History of the Universe (1979) #8-13. By Larry Gonick. Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is hip, funny, and full of info. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 320 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great!" Collects Cartoon History of the Universe (1979) #1-7. By Larry Gonick. In seven wild and witty chapters, cartoonist Larry Gonick takes us on an uproarious joyride through the ancient world. Gonick's brilliant insights, exuberant humor, and delightful drawings combine to make a truly unique work that is sure to be a valuable resource as well as a great escape for all ages. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 360 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

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Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great!" Collects Cartoon History of the Universe (1979) #1-7. By Larry Gonick. In seven wild and witty chapters, cartoonist Larry Gonick takes us on an uproarious joyride through the ancient world. Gonick's brilliant insights, exuberant humor, and delightful drawings combine to make a truly unique work that is sure to be a valuable resource as well as a great escape for all ages. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 360 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.