If you’ve got a tween or teen at home, or a faraway college student, who’s struggling in higher math, science or tech courses, this post is for you! The “Manga Guide to…” series comes to your rescue, with books that break difficult concepts and subjects down into simpler pieces, and present those pieces in the context of a fully-illustrated Manga comic book. The series includes such titles as:
Manga Guide to Linear Algebra (5/5 stars, currently priced at $10.89)
Follow along in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra as Reiji takes Misa from the absolute basics of this tricky subject through mind-bending operations like performing linear transformations, calculating determinants, and finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues. With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, Reiji transforms abstract concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun.
Praise for the Manga Guide Series
“Highly recommended.”
—Choice Magazine on The Manga Guide to Databases
“Stimulus for the next generation of scientists.”
—Scientific Computing on The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
“A great fit of form and subject. Recommended.”
—Otaku USA Magazine on The Manga Guide to Physics
“The Manga Guides definitely have a place on my bookshelf.”
—Smithsonian’s “Surprising Science”
“The art is charming and the humor engaging. A fun and fairly painless lesson on what many consider to be a less-than-thrilling subject.”
—School Library Journal on The Manga Guide to Statistics
“A single tortured cry will escape the lips of every thirty something biochem major who sees The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology: ‘Why, oh why couldn’t this have been written when I was in college?’”
—The San Francisco Examiner
Manga Guide to Calculus (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99)
Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye.
In The Manga Guide to Calculus, you’ll follow along with Noriko as she learns that calculus is more than just a class designed to weed out would-be science majors. You’ll see that calculus is a useful way to understand the patterns in physics, economics, and the world around us, with help from real-world examples like probability, supply and demand curves, the economics of pollution, and the density of Shochu (a Japanese liquor).
Mr. Seki teaches Noriko how to:
•Use differentiation to understand a function’s rate of change
•Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus, and grasp the relationship between a function’s derivative and its integral
•Integrate and differentiate trigonometric and other complicated functions
•Use multivariate calculus and partial differentiation to deal with tricky functions
•Use Taylor Expansions to accurately imitate difficult functions with polynomials
Whether you’re struggling through a calculus course for the first time or you just need a painless refresher, you’ll find what you’re looking for in The Manga Guide to Calculus.
Manga Guide to Physics (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99)
Megumi is an all-star athlete, but she’s a failure when it comes to physics class. And she can’t concentrate on her tennis matches when she’s worried about the questions she missed on the big test! Luckily for her, she befriends Ryota, a patient physics geek who uses real-world examples to help her understand classical mechanics-and improve her tennis game in the process!
In The Manga Guide to Physics, you’ll follow alongside Megumi as she learns about the physics of everyday objects like roller skates, slingshots, braking cars, and tennis serves. In no time, you’ll master tough concepts like momentum and impulse, parabolic motion, and the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.
You’ll also learn how to:
•Apply Newton’s three laws of motion to real-life problems
•Determine how objects will move after a collision
•Draw vector diagrams and simplify complex problems using trigonometry
•Calculate how an object’s kinetic energy changes as its potential energy increases
If you’re mystified by the basics of physics or you just need a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physics will get you up to speed in a lively, quirky, and practical way.
Manga Guide to The Universe (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99)
Join Kanna, Kanta, Yamane, and Gloria in The Manga Guide to the Universe as they explore our solar system, the Milky Way, and faraway galaxies in search of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter, cosmic expansion, and the Big Bang itself.
As you rocket across the night sky, you’ll become acquainted with modern astronomy and astrophysics, as well as the classical discoveries and theories on which they’re built. You’ll even learn why some scientists believe finding extraterrestrial life is inevitable!
You’ll also learn about:
• Discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Hubble, and other seminal astronomers
• Theories of the universe’s origins, evolution, and geometry
• The ways you can measure and observe heavenly bodies with different telescopes, and how astronomers calculate distances in space
• Stellar classifications and how the temperature, size, and magnitude of a star are related
• Cosmic background radiation, what the WMAP satellite discovered, and scientists’ predictions for the future of the universe
So dust off your flight suit and take a fantastic voyage through the cosmos in The Manga Guide to the Universe.
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