Larry Gonick Books

An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.

This illustrated guide presents world history in a way that is both entertaining and informative, making complex topics accessible and engaging. With a humorous approach, it aims to appeal to a wide audience, ensuring that readers find enjoyment while learning about significant historical events and figures.

This graphic work offers a bold critique of capitalism, utilizing sharp humor and striking visuals to convey its message. The bestselling cartoonist, known for "The Cartoon History Of The Universe," employs a unique blend of artistry and storytelling to explore the flaws and consequences of capitalist systems. The book promises to engage readers with its insightful commentary and entertaining approach, making complex economic concepts accessible and thought-provoking.

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.B & W illustrations.

“From the Bastille to Baghdad,” The Cartoon History of the World Part 2 is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick’s award-winning and bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form. Picking up after the American Revolution, where Part 1 left off, Part 2 opens with the Enlightenment and rolls across Napoleon, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, World War I and II, and all the way to our recent imbroglios in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2 is a monumental, one might say “historic” achievement, at once edifying, irreverent, and wildly entertaining. Terry Jones of Monty Python said of the first volume of this series, “ Obviously one of the great books of all time.” And modern civilization’s most recent act is no less enthralling.

The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history.

Cartoonist Larry Gonick unlocks the formula to understanding geometry in the latest entry in his New York Times bestselling Cartoon Guide series.For years, Larry Gonick’s Cartoon Guide series has helped struggling high school and college students thrive in the most challenging courses.

Part of Cartoon Guide series, this title offers college-level calculus course. It teaches the course essentials, functions, limits, derivatives, and integrals, with numerous examples and applications. It includes problem sets, designed to help readers cement the lessons learned in each section.

Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis? Watson and Crick? Aren't they a team of British detectives? Plant sex? Can they do that? Is Genetic Mutation the name of one of those heavy metal bands? Asparagine? Which of the four food groups is that in? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to Genetics to explain the important concepts of classical and modern genetics-it's not only educational, it's funny too!

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. You don't need to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry explains them 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!

Exploring the spectrum of human sexuality, this guide delves into topics ranging from initial attraction to the complexities of sexual health. It covers essential aspects such as sexual structures, gender roles, arousal, communication, and various relationship dynamics, all presented with humor and scientific accuracy. Larry Gonick's unique comic style makes complex subjects accessible and engaging, providing a frank and informative resource for readers seeking to understand the intricacies of sex without pretense.

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 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!

Covers all of algebra's essentials-- including rational and real numbers, the number line, variables, expressions, laws of combination, linear and quadratic equations, rates, proportion, and graphing-- with clear, funny, and easy-to- understand illustrations--Page 4 of cover.

For those who think the Ozone Hole is a grunge club, or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland, this helpful book introduces the world of environmental literacy. Chemical cycles, life communities, human population growth and global warming are all translated into cartoons.

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 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.

If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trials, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more--all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!

Co může být zábavnějšího než dějiny v podání komiksového kreslíře? Velký třesk, dinosauři, první lidé, velké civilizace dávnověku, „moudrá a kultivovaná“ Antika. Nic není svaté, všechno je k smíchu. Larry Gonick nenásilně kombinuje nejnovější vědecké poznatky s „pravdou“ básníků a legend. Jeho historie je stejně vzdálená nudě jako tyranosaurus pokojovému mazlíčkovi.

Dějiny a komiks. Co mají společného? Na první pohled jen velmi málo. Kreslíř Larry Gonick ve své Komiksové historii světa staví tuto logiku na hlavu. NIC není tak vážné, aby se tomu nedalo zasmát. V prvním dílu nebyla Gonickovi svatá „nedotknutelná“ antika ani příběhy starozákonních mudrců. Stejně shovívavý nadhled si zachovává i při pohnutém vyprávění dějin Indie a Číny. Skutečných i těch bájných. Ale to nejlepší si šetří nakonec. Krásný, mocný, dekadentní a ve své podstatě směšný Řím!

Výjimečně vtipná a veskrze neuctivá komiksová projíždka světovými dějinami počínaje zrozenmí islámu, přes Byzantskou říši a konče italskou renesancí.

Trápili jste, když vás učitel přírodopisu na střední škole požádal, abyste rozpitvali žábu? Neumíte správně odpovědět, co je to DNA? Stále se držíte přesvědčení, že osmóza byl název posledního turné Ozzyho Osbourna? Pokud si tím stále nejste jistí, pak potřebujete Komiksovou biologii.