Cartoon Guide to Environment

Informationen zum Autor Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, math, and other big subjects for more than forty years. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics), a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Klappentext Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy. 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. Zusammenfassung Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need  The Cartoon Guide to the Environment  to put you on the road to environmental literacy. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Gonick, Gonick Larry, Alice Outwater, Alice B. Outwater
• Assisted by: Larry Gonick (Illustration)
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1996
• EAN: 9780062732743
• ISBN: 978-0-06-273274-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Cartoon Guide Series; Cartoon Guide Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; History of Science, Physics, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Educational: study and revision guides, HISTORY: WORLD, STUDY AIDS: Study Guides, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Nonfiction / General, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: SCIENCE & NATURE, NATURE: Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE: Natural History, GRAPHIC NOVELS: SCIENCE & MATH, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Reference, SCIENCE: ECOLOGY, Graphic Novels / Science & Math, Environmental Studies / Science & Nature, Science / Ecology