{"id":24381,"date":"2017-08-15T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2017-08-15T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:03:49","slug":"science-books-new-and-cheap-not-necessarily-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/science-books-new-and-cheap-not-necessarily-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Books: New And Cheap (not necessarily both)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s start with CheMystery<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

This is a fun graphic novel mystery book by C.A. Preece and Josh Reynolds. Two cousins experience an incident that would make a physicist cry, but that works in a chemistry book because they now have the ability to observe and change matter. So this is a superhero book, designed to teach chemistry. The story is great, the science is great, and the pedagogy is well suited for kids and adults that like graphic novels.<\/p>\n

Preece is the chem teacher (high school) and Reynolds is the artist.<\/p>\n

This is written for grades 7 through 10 (ages 8-12) but some younger kids will do fine with it.<\/p>\n

This book is pretty new, but I think it is available.<\/p>\n

Here are some books that are currently available cheap on Kindle, for anywhere from free to two bucks, that are either science or otherwise, I suspect, of interest to readers of this blog:<\/p>\n

Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Adams: An American Dynasty<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s start with CheMystery. This is a fun graphic novel mystery book by C.A. Preece and Josh Reynolds. Two cousins experience an incident that would make a physicist cry, but that works in a chemistry book because they now have the ability to observe and change matter. So this is a superhero book, designed to … Continue reading Science Books: New And Cheap (not necessarily both)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1298,1146,40,690,1299,959],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6lf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}