(Part 2) Best educational & nonfiction graphic novels according to redditors

It exists! I had to read it over the summer for my freshman year of high school, and honestly it was pretty decent. Would recommend.

Here. Came out a couple of months ago.

The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins. I know his name carries quite a stigma but this book is pro-science and skepticism not anti-religion.

Also I'm pretty sure Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote some children's books together, but I don't know the names of the books and amazon is a mess for searching for stuff you don't already know.

https://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Thatcher-Colouring-Book/dp/1785900994

My wife just pushed a graphic novel into my hands and told me to read it. It was like it was about me. I cried from relief. Finally I know why my life seems hard, why I sometimes blow up at someone, even why I hate sunshine.

Give him more info. The revelation towards himself might really help him.

If he indeed is autistic he will value the information. Autist like to understand things and not understanding aspects of oneself is extremely frustrating. Most of us (and most might even mean all, but I'm not absolutely sure) love to learn and gather knowledge.

But be aware that knowing will not make him less autistic. There will still be shutdowns and meltdowns. It might well make a huge difference for both of you if you know the hows and whys.

https://www.amazon.com/Antifa-Comic-Book-Fascism-Movements/dp/1551527332&ved=2ahUKEwj4qM2DkK3jAhVFHc0KHcanBloQFjAOegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0N7fLOGFAHnEP4xGVQszp5

A Comicbook that simplifies antifa movements and explains what they have done for the past 100 years

Her book came out in October of last year (which I just noticed is #1 in "Biographies & History Graphic Novels") and over the summer I pre-ordered her 2015 wall calendar. It's currently hanging up in my office so I've got another year of Brosh's creations to hold me over. I am guessing she has a lot on her plate, I hope she is focusing on herself whatever she is doing when not blogging. Apparently there's a 2015 engagement calendar as well...sooooo, buying that now

I just noticed she has a bunch of things on Amazon that are going on sale in 2015, so perhaps that explains the hiatus:

Hyperbole and a Half Notepad (and Mouse Pad)

Hyperbole and a Half Notebooks (Set of 3)

Hyperbole and a Half Die-Cut Notecards

Edit: Here's a video that was posted in August featuring Brosh (bonus points if you're also into MTG)

"Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism" https://www.amazon.com/dp/1849352178/ is a good read, going over the 50 years since WWII and the huge list of military actions the US has been involved in.

Read these:
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346

https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/1620973928

https://www.amazon.com/Bartolome-las-Casas-Destruction-Indies/dp/1451526997

https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059

https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Introduction-Philosophy-Michael-Patton/dp/0809033623

I recommend The Cartoon Guide to Calculus. It breaks down hard to grasp concepts such as infinitesimals in a very visual way. I unfortunately came across the book after I had finished my Calculus series but regardless, I found it to be very entertaining all while teaching the subject.

The Cartoon Guide to Calculus

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained/dp/1465458557/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1523600949&sr=8-3&keywords=the+philosophy+book

Its mediocre but its something.

https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Introduction-Philosophy-Michael-Patton/dp/0809033623/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523601374&sr=1-2&keywords=the+philosophy+comic

This one might be more age appropriate though.

No problem!

Philosophy of time is an enormous area!

Not only are there many distinct positions that attempt to address the scientific and philosophical questions in different ways, there are different positions regarding the very method by which we should attempt to answer these questions! Some of these certainly overlap.

What do I mean by this?

Putting it roughly:

There are those who tend to think that we should use science to answer these questions about time. All we should care about is what observations are made; we should only care about the empirical data. These people might point to the great success of our best scientific theories that refer to 'time', such as those in physics, including; Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Entropy (The Arrow of Time), and even Quantum Theory, but also those in neuroscience and psychology, where our perception of time becomes relevant (such as the Inference Model of Time and the Strength Model of Time). So we have notions of physical/objective time, and subjective/mental time. We may talk about time slowing down around a massive body such as a black hole, or time slowing down when a work-shift is boring or when we're experiencing a traumatic event.

But there are also those who tend to think that we should use not just science, but also uniquely philosophical methods as well. Conceptual analysis is one such method; one that involves thinking very carefully about our concepts. This method is a distinctically a priori method (A priori is just philosophical jargon meaning; "Can be known without experience," for example, the statement "All triangles have three sides"). These people think we can learn a great deal about time by reflecting on our concepts about time, our intuitions about time, and the laws of thought (or logic) and how they relate to time. This philosophical approach to answering questions about time is distinctively metaphysical opposed to the former physical and cognitive theories about time.

Of course there are many who may see the use in all of these different approaches!

Recommendations:

Physics:

Hawking, S 1988, A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes, Bantam Books, Toronto; New York. [Chapters 2, 9 & 10. Absolute Classic, little dated but still great read]

Gardner, M 1988, Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments, W.H. Freeman, UK. [Chapter 1]

Greene, B 2010, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton, New York. [Chapter 2 is a great introduction for Special Relativity]

Physics and Metaphysics:

Dainton, B 2010, Time and Space, 2nd edn, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal; Ithaca N.Y. [Chapters 1-8, 18, 19 & 21. This book is incredible in scope, it even has a chapter on String Theory, and it really acknowledges the intimate connection between space and time given to us by physics]

Metaphyics:

Hawley, K 2015, Temporal Parts, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/temporal-parts/>. [Discussion of Perdurantism, the view that objects last over time without being wholly present at every time at which they exist.]

Markosian, N 2014, Time, The Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/time/>.

Hunter, J 2016, Time Travel, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
<http://www.iep.utm.edu/timetrav/>.

Callender, C & Edney, R 2014, Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide, Icon Books Limited, UK. [Great book if you want something a bit less wordy and fun, but still very informative, having comprehensive coverage. It also has many nice illustrations and is cheap!]

Curtis, B & Robson, J 2016, A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK. [Very good recent publication that comes from a great series of books in metaphysics]

Ney, A 2014, Metaphysics: An Introduction, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London; New York. [Chapters 5 & 6 (Chapter 4 looks at critiques of Metaphysics in general as a way of answer questions and Chapter 9 looks at Free-will/Determinism/Compatiblism)]

More advanced temporal Metaphysics:

Sider, T 2001, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time, Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, Oxford New York. [Great book defending what Sider calls "Four-Dimensionalism" (this is confusing given how others have used the same term differently) but by it he means Perdurantism, the view that objects last over time without being wholly present at every time at which they exist.]

Hawley, K 2004, How Things Persist, Clarendon Press, UK. [Another great book: It's extremely similar to the one above in terms of the both content and conclusions reached]

Some good Time travel movies:

Interstellar (2014)

Timecrimes (2007)

Looper (2012)

Primer (2004) [Time Travel on drugs]

12 Monkeys (1995)

Donnie Darko (2001)

The Terminator (1984)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Predestination (2014)

Back To the Future (1-3) (1985-1990)

Source Code (2011)

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Fantastic. I've just ordered a copy from amazon.co.uk for my kid (and also to leave around the office).

As I have no legitimate question, I'm gonna have to ask you if you'd rather fight 100 duck size horses or a horse sized duck?

double thank-you. I'm a literature person first, but I love biology. Have you seen the graphic novel adaptation of On the Origin of Species?

I'll let others throw out some examples, but if you're interested in how philosophical topics have already been incorporated into comics, I would check out Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, and Unflattening.

I'm not sure that's a good analogue. Do you think a kid reading The Chronicles of Narnia is going to have their beliefs as strongly influenced as a kid reading The Illustrated Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True?

Here's a link to the Amazon page.

Here's a decent graphic novel about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Sharps-Cowboys-Thunder-Lizards/dp/0966010663

But the real deal is this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Bonehunters-Revenge-Dinosaurs-Fate-Gilded/dp/0618082409

I've read both a couple times, love this subject.

https://www.amazon.com/Addicted-War-U-S-Cant-Militarism/dp/1849352178/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540220685&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=addicted+to+war&dpPl=1&dpID=61Q6HKPCjWL&ref=plSrch

This one is really cool. In the same vein, I like Cook Korean, another cooking comic that came out recently.

Yup. https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Constitution-Graphic-Adaptation/dp/0809094703

Another fun one I read about today: SCADA and Me: A Book for Children and Management

Someone got sick of explaining SCADA to management, and finally had a super boiled down presentation he used. He turned it into a slightly tongue in cheek childrens book!

I'm thinking of grabbing a copy for my bookshelf

Ohh you should get this for you and this for me :3

I know he was one of ten people with the title of "Playwright" for the army during WW2.

If you are interested in comic creators in the military be sure to check out Will Eisner's work on PS Magazine. From 1951 to 1971, he did comics about maintenance, conservation and prevention of military resources (like tires, engines, bullets...). It's a great and interesting sampling.

https://www.amazon.com/PS-Magazine-Preventive-Maintenance-Monthly/dp/0810997487

I've been a big fan of Icon Books' "Introducing" series. They're sorta like intellectual comic books, but are able to give you a good precis of a given author or subject quite efficiently. I prefer them to Paul Strathern's 90 Minutes series because they go into better depth on the theoretical aspects of a thinker, whereas Strathern spends more time in biographical detail and only briefly dips into the theory. If you buy used, and look around for older editions you can usually find them going for about between a penny and a buck or less on Amazon, and with $3.99 shipping, it's a pretty cheap way to get a good start in a subject. The upside is their more recent books like the ones on Derrida and Zizek come with approval from the author they're covering. Derrida reportedly loved his, and Zizek was apparently quite excited about the medium and had many ideas for how to communicate with it.

Consciousness, Time, Ethics


But yeah, the best thing you can do for yourself though after or while sating your interests is to get a solid foundation in the Greeks, because EVERYBODY references them, everybody. They are great in and of themselves, but you will literally save yourself years of your own time that would have been spent trying to pin down this that or the other thing that so and so said if you don't have a solid basic understanding of the Greeks.

While Eisner was serving the US making educational comics to help the war effort other luminaries stepped in for him on The Spirit, including Jack Cole and Wally Wood. But if you want real Eisner Spirit, center cut, check out the DC reprints, The Spirit Archives, especially volumes 2 and 3. Like many serial characters, it took Eisner a while to figure out what was great and essential in the character he created.

As a side note, Ebony White, the Spirit's sidekick, is a cringeworthy, antiquated stereotype. Eisner lived long enough to struggle with the damage he did with this character. But that's another story for another thread. Ebony is still painful to read for me and many other Eisner enthusiasts. The past isn't all perfect or easy to deal with.

Sorry for the delayed response! The professor that helped me the most in terms of career was Dr. Kristen Syrett. I was a research assistant in her laboratory. All of the profs are great. Dr. Ken Safir is another person who helped me. There are a few others, but a few have moved to different universities. If you take profs multiple times for different courses and get yourself involved in any of their research, they really get to know you and will be great resources. The department is really pretty small, so it sorta becomes a nice tight-nit linguistics family.

My current career is as a school administrator where I supervise bilingual programs and design ESL curriculum. I do love what I do. I chose an applied linguistics route, so I use a lot of what I learned studying language acquisition in curriculum decisions. Other linguistics grads from my cohort either work for companies like Google as computational linguists, or are doing post-doctoral work related to the field.

As for how I got interested in linguistics, when I was in high school, my school's library had a "graphic novel" type book called Introducing Linguistics by R.L. Trask. It was a short read, but it made me think about how much I don't know about language and how it works and I decided to take it as my college major. Coming into my education-related job was a development that came later on when studying language acquisition and language pedagogical theory.

You might want to check out The Cartoon Guide to Calculus. It does unfortunately expect you to know some Trig, but if you're just looking for an overview of the topic this is a great place to start. It's written and drawn in a very straightforward and humorous way and it's about as far as you can get stylistically from a text book.

Limits (the foundation of calculus) are described in an intuitive way, as are derivatives and integrals. So even if you couldn't do any of the actual math yet, you'd still be able to understand the concepts.

I just ordered this book its a cartoon book about calculus. I know I have to go over new concepts again and again. I can't memerize everything in one day either. Im hoping that a cartoon book about calculus every weekend for a month will help. I know I can't re read a dry calc book just for fun.

There is a great book that includes this premise as a big part of the author's thesis. The book is Unflattening by Nick Sousanis. It's primarily filled with drawings and supported by text. Definitely worth the read.

If she's still a baby then there's nothing for her.

Later, you might look through the Science sub-section under children's books here:

http://www.prometheusbooks.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=96&zenid=8j4aqfiua1mpfuqh7lpjcadfs1


Some amazon links:

http://www.amazon.com/free-thinking-and-atheist-childrens-books/lm/R1IZIBCUX0XAIW

http://www.amazon.com/Aching-Praying-Ronnelle-Adams/dp/1578840163/

In the young-adult sector (around 13 years old, although some bright 10-year-olds can read at this level), there's "The Magic of Reality" by Richard Dawkins, a beautifully illustrated science book that begins each chapter talking about myths on each topic, then explains what science can deduce in contrast to the mythology.

You must read March by John Lewis.You might also like Trinity and Relish.

Look for Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology.

Awesome graphic novel about Cope and Marsh. About 98% accurate, but the writer actually details what changes he made at the end of the book, something I've never seen in this sort of adaptation.

The cover is awesome, too. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Bone-Sharps-Cowboys-Thunder-Lizards/dp/0966010663/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381429284&sr=1-4&keywords=cope+and+marsh

Buy the book...SCADA and Me: A Book for Children and Management

I found Trinity (sorry for the mobile link)

Awesome review of the creation and uses of the atomic bomb in graphic novel form. Well done.

Amazon Links: Volume 1 / Volume 2

How about:

• This Crash Course US History Timeline Poster ($12)
  
• This Crash Course US Government Poster ($10)
  
• This beautiful book of illustrated maps ($25)
  
• Rad American Women A-Z ($17)
  
• Literally anything related to Hamilton
  
• A "On This Day In History" Calendar ($9)
  
• The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation ($15)
  
• A History of America in 100 Maps ($23)
  
• Something under "history classroom" on Etsy
  
  Also: Have you tried having a look at what she's pinned on Pinterest? You might find some helpful ideas there. Good luck!

Check out Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

https://www.amazon.com/Unflattening-Nick-Sousanis/dp/0674744438

If you want something cute and not too heavy, there is a pretty nice Graphic Guide to linguistics. It won't be as technical, of course, but it will get the ideas across.

The Dummies book is also decent, surprisingly, from the quick glances I've taken through it. Though I don't think it does a good job covering many theories in syntax, that shouldn't be too much of your focus anyway if you just want gist.

Beyond this, any basic textbook will do. Fromkin et al is a popular one, though I don't think I can comment on a 'best.' Buy an older edition of one for a couple of bucks and ask questions on here when you feel stuck.

Amazon Link
This guide is the source of everything I said. The self-similar sets are repeated throughout all of nature.

http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Darwins-Origin-Species-Adaptation/dp/160529697X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313188721&sr=8-1

Volume 1

and

Volume 2 (where this cover comes from).

I found this comic book to be pretty informative and entertaining on the subject. Not 100% historical, but probably as close as Crichton gets.

EDIT: Nice, it's referenced in this wikipedia article, and has its own page as well.

Would they like something like this? A Korean cookbook in the form of a comic book? https://www.amazon.com/Cook-Korean-Comic-Book-Recipes/dp/1607748878/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

Sounds like this.

A comic book about autism: https://www.amazon.com/World-beyond-my-Shadow-ebook/dp/B01GSDHDLQ/
It is pretty popular (among adults and children) in Germany and was recently translated to English.

Here are some links for the product in the above comment for different countries:

Amazon Smile Link: http://smile.amazon.com/Introducing-Fractals-A-Graphic-Guide/dp/1848310870/ref=sr_1_1


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