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The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry (Cartoon Guide Series) Paperback – Illustrated, May 3, 2005

by Larry Gonick (Author), Craig Criddle (Author)
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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!

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  1. Print length
    256 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publication date
    May 3, 2005
  4. Reading age
    13 - 17 years
  5. Dimensions
    7.38 x 0.58 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0060936770
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0060936778
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Customers find the book helpful for introducing science ideas to students. They find the humor entertaining and fun, helping them remember concepts easily. Many consider it a valuable resource and a good primer for science students. The design is described as great, nice, and classic.

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76 customers mention "Introductory value"76 positive0 negative

Customers find the book helpful for introducing science ideas to students. They say it provides an overview of the subject, helps them understand concepts better, and is a useful guide for anyone studying chemistry. The cartoon guide books are helpful for college and high school kids, as well as adults.

"...He really enjoyed it, especially with cartoon it become much easier to understand. He also finished the Genetic book...." Read more

"...This book really covers much general and physical chemistry well, so can be recommended as an alternative approach. BILL PALMER" Read more

"...This material should be accessible to a middle school student. Don't wait for the schools to educate your child...." Read more

"...It doesn't. Same information, more fun." Read more

41 customers mention "Humor"41 positive0 negative

Customers find the humor entertaining and helpful for learning concepts. They appreciate the humorous perspective and cute cartoons that keep them engaged. The comic book feel keeps them interested and wanting to read more.

"My 8 year old read the whole book in three days. He really enjoyed it, especially with cartoon it become much easier to understand...." Read more

"This is a humorous book that a scientist or a kid looking to learn a little can appreciate. Classic." Read more

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Customers find the book a good primer and valuable resource for students in Year 11/12. They appreciate the visual learning approach and logical sequence of chapters that build upon the previous one.

"...However, this book could prove to be a valuable resource for most Year 11/12 students studying chemistry, though there are difficulties...." Read more

"...Really lays out chemistry in a logical sequence and each chapter builds upon the last, showing how most of chemistry is connected to other topics." Read more

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"Good book. I read this over the summer before taking chem 305 to get familiar with Chemistry. It's fun to read and the cartoons are cute...." Read more

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Customers find the book helpful in retaining knowledge. It serves as a good warm-up for lessons, and it motivates future scientists and engineers. The book is also useful for non-scientists and will be useful for years to come.

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  • Vivian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2024
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    My 8 year old read the whole book in three days. He really enjoyed it, especially with cartoon it become much easier to understand. He also finished the Genetic book. I bought the whole series for him
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  • William P. Palmer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Review of The cartoon guide to chemistry by Larry Gonick, & Craig Criddle
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014
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    CITATION: Gonick, L. & Criddle, C. (2005). The cartoon guide to chemistry. New York: HarperCollins.

    Reviewer: Dr W. P. Palmer

    Can students learn chemistry through cartoons? The answer may well be ‘only with extreme difficulty’. Nonetheless, this cartoon guide could be extremely helpful promoting student learning in some areas of chemistry. The way in which students learn chemistry is very much dependent on the student’s learning style and some students will reject the concept of a cartoon guide to chemistry out of hand. However, this book could prove to be a valuable resource for most Year 11/12 students studying chemistry, though there are difficulties.

    Interestingly it starts with some of chemistry’s history where there are some minor errors by the authors. It was Cavendish, rather than Priestley (p. 9), who first prepared and named hydrogen and also Cavendish who discovered that hydrogen burnt to form water. Robert Boyle had prepared hydrogen much earlier, but had not identified its properties. Reflecting on the early part of the text, it is easy to see how the cartoonist’s desire to use humour to help students remember and understand chemistry could equally be responsible for student chemical misconceptions. ‘Chemical bonding’ is likened to human love and affection, for example, ‘No wonder the subject is so sexy! (p. 46). This anthropomorphism can prove to be a source of further student misconceptions. There are a variety of less well known chemical reactions chosen by the authors as examples such as living on a desert island using its natural resources in a self-sufficient manner; this was extremely innovative and showed possible practical applications of chemistry. In the areas of physical and general chemistry, the authors do a good job of providing examples of typical calculations with which students need to be familiar.

    Areas of descriptive chemistry in inorganic and organic chemistry are difficult as students may often be required recall the practical details of experiments that they have carried out, whereas cartoon guides need to cut descriptions to a minimum number of words. Similarly industrial chemistry may prove difficult if details of industrial processes are required. Overall, The cartoon guide to chemistry covers more than most Year 12 curricula and could find a place in some university courses. There will be teachers who dislike the approaches to some topics or find definitions incomplete, but the appeal that a cartoon approach makes to some students should override these concerns. This book really covers much general and physical chemistry well, so can be recommended as an alternative approach.

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Chemistry Made Digestable
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2024
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    This is a humorous book that a scientist or a kid looking to learn a little can appreciate. Classic.
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  • Araktsu
    4.0 out of 5 stars A nice book to read with your children...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2014
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    ....instead of watching mindless video entertainment, sit up with our children and take turns reading.

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste. This would not be a waste. It is a gift you can give to your children that will last for the rest of their lives. Otherwise, they will probably be left only with mindless entertainment leading away from reality rather than toward insight into the fundamental nature of reality.

    Consider that a great many of our elected officials seem to have the opposite view. That is why so many for so long could not and still cannot comprehend the physical issues challenging the survival of not only our country (in this case, the United States) but of our species.

    This book will work well for the task at hand. This material should be accessible to a middle school student.

    Don't wait for the schools to educate your child. For all you know some of the instructors are sitting up at night watching mindless commercial television and other fare, not increasing their knowledge and insight. As a parent you have no control of the quality of education your child will receive in that regard.

    Education begins at home. If you do not have a background in the subject at issue, then you can learn along with your child. If you like it, you can learn more elsewhere. You should be sure that the student has already got arithmetic and basic algebra. (See "Painless Algebra" by Lynette B. Long.)

    Please consider this:

    In 2014 the U.S. Congress invited a man who demands to be called His Holiness, the Dalai Lama (the former dictator of Tibet until China, Inc. took control) to lead the Congress in prayer which he started with, "Pray to the Buddha and all other gods..."

    I suppose that some readers may believe that by doing so our Congress and the electorate will resolve or avoid various challenges, like global warming, nuclear accidents, sinking aquifers, aggression from, say, China, Inc., famine, or global epidemics such as AIDS (recall the 1918 influenza epidemic). But that is not the case. Only knowledge of how the real world works leads to possible solutions to these challenges.

    Our political elites are not up to the task, clearly.

    You have to make your own judgement on these things. Your children have to live with it even after you are gone. There is no one else they can depend on to make wise and well-informed decisions. Teach them how to deal with the real world whenever possible. They may have little else to guide them.
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  • Debbie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun way to learn
    Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024
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    Why should chemistry be hard to understand and be boring? It doesn't. Same information, more fun.
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  • Peter the Paranoid
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great book by a wonderful cartoonist
    Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2011
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    I used the first edition of "The Cartoon Guide to Genetics" in my college biology class in 1987, and it was a very helpful overview of the subject, if not quite as detailed as my regular textbook. The humor helped make the material easy to remember, however. I was a chemistry major, and when my teenage daughter started H.S. chemistry this year, I thought I should brush up on it myself, in case she needed help. While looking for a good intro textbook, I found this title and got it for her. I read it myself first, of course, and it was as good as the genetics book was. Mr. Gonick teams up with a professional, in this case a college professor who teaches environmental chemistry, and makes him/her the cartoon host of the story. I may have to get the updated edition of "The Cartoon Guide to Genetics" next.
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  • Hans-Peter Rohns
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cartoons
    Reviewed in Germany on August 17, 2023
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  • 5flatKat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent primer /refresher
    Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2020
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    Bought my kids this for heading into high school - they actually read it & was a perfect primer for them to get the foundational understanding needed before taking chemistry classes... Fast forward a few years, & I re-bought it (gifted on the original book) as a refresher heading into university as they've got chem coming up & haven't taken it in a few years - both boys were excited to see it again :)
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  • Doug1943
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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2018
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    Larry Gonick's 'Cartoon Guides to ...' the sciences are a godsend. So many science texts are dull dull dull -- just assertions and equations. This book should be given to every child interested in, or forced to study, chemistry.
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  • Tristan P.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Ok for starters
    Reviewed in France on December 1, 2017
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    Fun, but at times slightly confusing somehow
    Perhaps am I still lacking certain basic knowledge about chemistry, nevertheless interesting read
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  • Shakeel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on November 18, 2016
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    It adds fun to learning. Can also be gifted to school teachers/students.
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