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Authors: Larry Gonick, Alice Outwater
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8

ISBN: 0062732749
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
EAN: 9780062732743
ASIN: 0062732749

Publication Date: April 24, 1996
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Product Description
Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an online restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? P Then you need IThe Cartoon Guide to the Environment/I to put you on the road to environmental literacy.P IThe Cartoon Guide to the Environment/I 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.

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5 out of 5 stars

Good book November 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

THIS BOOK DEALS WITH FACTS, NOT FICTION. One of the people wrote in the review:" disappointed that it doesn't deal with any issues today that are killing the earth. it should focus more on the effects of global warming, destruction of our rain forests, killing off of our animals and plants, and the new technologies we have..."br /br /I am glad it does not deal especially with global warming. As many scientists that support it are against it. The more I read about global warming the more I believe that it is a political agenda rather than a fact. Any books stating Global warming is a fact is same as stating with a fact that we were created by God. Nobody knows where we came from. Was it evolution or was it God? Do not get me wrong, I do believe in preserving and saving and trying not to polute and in doing our part. But no one can tell me that Global warming is a fact. Even Gore does not believe it or he would not be driving large SUVs and flying on private jet planes that polute more than any SUV will during a year. Just one flight across the country will cause as much polution as 100s of SUVs will in a year. I AM GLAD THIS BOOK GIVES FACTS NOT FICTION.

5 out of 5 stars

Environmental Science and Cartoons September 28, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Great book as a break from the normal Environmental science textbooks. A funny and informative look at many of the key ideas and concepts related to environmental science. Many of the cartoons are also useful for teaching biological science. Don't be fooled, some of the cartoons demonstrate fairly advanced ideas, but in a humerous and entertaining fashion.

5 out of 5 stars

Great year end review for APES September 19, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Plan on having students buy this and using it as an APES exam review in May.br /

5 out of 5 stars

Well-written, fun-to-learn comic book. August 11, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Rarely do I post anything on the web, but I feel obligated to do so now in defense of this author. Global Warming is covered on pages 64, 201-3, and 207 as listed in the index. Ozone Depletion, page 199 Acid Rain, page 198.

5 out of 5 stars

Learning, Fun? No Way! April 27, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I recently rented this cartoon book from the school library in hopes of learning more about ecology. The book did an excellent job giving easy-to-understand definitions, and the illustrations really boosted my comprehension. Though the book did not detail global warming and other "big" issues in our society, it was a fantastic teaching tool for the basics. It was a fun read, and it got me thinking about how minor changes can affect the way the world works.

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