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| AN
APPROACH TO RACE |
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w/
LEOPOLD
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BRINK |
| by C.A. Fink |
A Study LaB Book
Fink, inc |
$1.75
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| Race was selected
as the topic of the first StudyLaB book because it is perhaps the worst
problem our society struggles with and yet the easiest to solve through
education of the above facts to students of all ages.
The StudyLaB book below is
a fun and simple way to begin the discussion with your students! |
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| LARRY GONICK |
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The
CARTOON GUIDE to the ENVIRONMENT |
| by Larry Gonick & Alice Outwater |
Paperback: 240 pages
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062732749 |
$16.95
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| For those who
think the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock band or that the Green Revolution
happened in Greenland, this helpful, often hilarious book provides the
perfect introduction to the world of environmental literacy. From chemical
cycles to life communities to food webs to pollution, deforestation, and
global warming, Gonnick explains environmental concepts in layman's terms
and explains their relevance and relationship to the planet's ecology. |
| 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. |
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| LARRY GONICK |
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The
CARTOON GUIDE to GENETICS |
| by Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis |
Paperback: 224 pages
Harperperennial Library
ISBN: 0062730991 |
$16.00
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Illustrates,
simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern
genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how
the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.
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"If
you can't learn Mendelian genetics from this text, I guess you never will."
--
New Scientist
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Amazon.com
Having trouble deciphering
your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning
nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease
your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the basics
of genetic engineering. Gonick's drawings range from a moderately detailed
look at ribosomes in action to loony pictures of dancing scientists, talking
peas, and opinionated fruit flies.
--Mary Ellen
Curtin
"It puts
textbooks to shame."
--
Matthew Meselson, Professor of Biology, Harvard University
(co-discoverer
of the "one gene-one protein" principle)
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| LARRY GONICK |
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The
CARTOON GUIDE to PHYSICS |
| by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman |
Paperback: 224 pages
Harperperennial Library
ISBN: 0062731009 |
$16.00
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| If you think
a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill --
if you imagine that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate -- if you believe
that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car -- you need The Cartoon Guide
to Physics to set you straight.You don't have to be a scientist to grasp
these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Physics
explains them all: velocity, acceleration, explosions, electricity and
magnetism, circuits -- even a taste of relativity theory -- and much more,
in simple, clear, and, yes, funny illustrations. Physics will never be
the same! |
From the author
of the bestselling The Cartoon History of the Universe--a refreshingly
humorous and effective cartoon explanation of the principles of physics.
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"Gonick
is close to being one of a kind."
--Discover
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It's been said that before
physics students can fly with Feynman they need to walk with Halliday and
Resnick. Those of us who are still toddling along, however, need Larry
Gonick. Gonick's characteristically quirky drawings are teamed with physicist
Art Huffman's prose to produce lessons like this: picture Sir Isaac Newton
driving a Mack truck labeled "Big Inertia." Ike is talking into a CB radio,
saying: "Breaker one nine: force overcomes inertia and produces acceleration.
Do you read?" |
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