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List Price: $22.95Amazon.com's Price: $15.61 You Save: $7.34 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 902.07
EAN: 9780385420938
ISBN: 0385420935
Label: Main Street Books/Doubleday
Manufacturer: Main Street Books/Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 305
Publication Date: 1994-10
Publisher: Main Street Books/Doubleday
Release Date: September 18, 1994
Sales Rank: 60018
Studio: Main Street Books/Doubleday
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The first Cartoon History of the Universe won raves from book critics and general readers alike and became a smash bestseller. Now Larry Gonick's back, with six more hilarious volumes in one tremendous package. Hip, multicultural, and funny, it has something for absolutely everyone.
Amazon.com Review:
Continuing right where the first book left off, The Cartoon History of the Universe II once again combines Gonick's superb cartooning with the lessons of history. Find out what Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better of Worse, calls "a gift to those of us who love to laugh and who love to learn." Part II contains volumes 8 to 13, from the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (and India, too!).
Average Rating: 
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Devoid of some of the freshness, levity and humor of the first volume, this one features a more cynic and ascerbic tone. Lao Tze is dispatched in a couple of pages, precious little space is dedicated to the exposition of achievements of lasting historical value while much space is dedicated to moralistic criticism of the universal aspects of power mongering--monarchial or otherwise--and military issues and campaigns. The artwork, however, is great. Buy knowing that this is not a history but cartoon ... Read More
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This is the second volume of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe. The series tells the history of the world, in comic book form. Lots of bad puns are thrown in to keep things interesting. This particular volume focuses on India, China and Rome. This is a fun way to learn history.
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Every book in this series is both funny and intelligent. Much of the dumb humor comes from getting the facts straight. Even small details like Galba jumping into his boyfriend's arms after learning that he has been declared emporer is from Tacitus.
This is my favorite by virtue of being about Ancient Rome, its rise as a Republic, the height of Empire and its collapse into the dark ages. The fact that he doesn't flinch from the more scandalous details (such as Tiberius' proclivities towards ... Read More
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Comics have no limits. Anything can get depicted with words and pictures. And, after Larry Gonick completes his "Cartoon History of the Universe" series, most everything will be. Over the past three decades Gonick has stretched modern comics from the purely fictional into the scientific and historic. He has cartoonified esoteric subjects that would bore most medieval scriveners. Snoozers like statistics, genetics, physics, chemistry (and the one exception, that great unmentionable - blush, blush - puritans ... Read More
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The book is really funny. It arrived quickly, with no hassle at all!
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