PHYSICS COMICS' LIBRARY
Physics Comics is not intended to replace professional teaching and learning of physics, but to supplement and enrich it. There is no way to learn science without abstract, formal thinking as the final process of what this comics-book tries to visualize. I am not familiar with Physics Textbooks in English, you may find some through this bookstore links:
Please let me know if you know something useful
This is the link to amazon's homepage
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I'll list here some books which had some influence on Physics Comics. I've read them in German but they are available in English. You can order them from amazon.com directly from this website by clicking the blue links.
Albert Einstein/Leo Infeld: Evolution of Physics................ Look it up at amazon's
The master himself on how easy it is to understand physics
if you are able to follow his thoughts
Galileo Galilei: Dialogs concerning two
new sciences..... Look it up at amazon's
George Gamow: Great physicists from Galileo to Einstein... Look it up at amazon's
George Gamow: Biography of Physics
Werner Heisenberg: The part and the whole
Werner Heisenberg: Natural Law and the structure of Matter.. Look it up at amazon's
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Physicists................ Look it up at amazon's
A political book about physics and what happens, if science
falls prey to Techno-,Bureau-,Pluto- and other -crats.
Max Frisch: Homo Faber................ Look it up at amazon's
A story of a Technocrat
Max Frisch: Sketchbook 46-49................ Look it up at amazon's
Germany after the war
Jean Piaget: Psychology of Intelligence................ Look it up at amazon's
An important book considering the fact that some politicians
think that "children as young as 3 years old are
ready for formal education".
A.S.Neill: Summerhill,a new approach to child rearing.................Look it up
In most people's view a not very succesful approach
but contributes to the question whether education is filling
an empty soul with useful knowledge or developping a not empty soul.
Rudolf Steiner: The child's changing consciousness..... Look it up at amazon's
and Rhythms of Learning .... Look it up at amazon's
Two of many books from the founder of a more successful approach in developping the childs identity.
Goscinny and Uderzo: Asterix und Obelix................ Look it up at amazon's
still my favourite Comics
Maria Sten: Codices of Mexico
Le Corbusier: The Modulor
Wassily Kandinsky: Point and Line to Plane................ Look it up at amazon's
Kandinsky explores the basic graphic elements
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