Cartoon Guide to Chemistry

<p><strong>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 <em>The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry</em> to set you on the road to chemical literacy!</strong></p><p><em>The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry</em> 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: </p><ul>Early ideas and techniques</li>Electrochemistry</li>Organic chemistry</li>Biochemistry</li>Environmental chemistry</li>Physics as chemistry</li>And much more!</li></ul><p>You don't need to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas because <em>The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry</em> 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!</p>