The Cartoon Guide to Physics (Cartoon Guide Series)

It's been said that before physics students can fly with Feynman they need to walk with Halliday and Resnick. Those of us who are still toddling along, however, need Larry Gonick. Gonick's characteristically quirky drawings are teamed with physicist Art Huffman's prose to produce lessons like this: picture Sir Isaac Newton driving a Mack truck labeled "Big Inertia." Ike is talking into a CB radio, saying: "Breaker one nine: force overcomes inertia and produces acceleration. Do you read?" As the jacket copy says, "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," here's the book for you. --Mary Ellen Curtin

• The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
• The Cartoon Guide to Algebra (Cartoon Guide Series)
• The Cartoon Guide to Calculus (Cartoon Guide Series)
• The Cartoon Guide to Biology
• The Cartoon Guide to Genetics (Updated Edition)
• My First Book of Quantum Physics
• The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
• Cartoon History of the United States (Cartoon History of the Modern World) (Cartoon Guide Series)
• Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7
• Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide