- Sociology, Science in popular culture, Study and teaching, Comic books, strips, etc. in education
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books," a hugely popular university course that generated coast-to-coast media attention for its unique method of explaining complex physics concepts through comics.
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Warm, cool, plot-driven and resolved.
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- James Kakalios
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Gotham Books, Gotham
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781592402427
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