Ayumi is a world-class shogi (Japanese chess) player who can't be beaten—that is, until she loses to a powerful computer called the Shooting Star. Ayumi vows to find out everything she can about her new nemesis. Lucky for her, Yuu Kano, the genius programmer behind the Shooting Star, is willing to teach her all about the inner workings of the microprocessor—the "brain" inside all computers, phones, and gadgets.
 

Follow along with Ayumi in The Manga Guide to Microprocessors and you'll learn about:
 
- How the CPU processes information and makes decision 
- How computers perform arithmetic operations and store information 
- Logic gates and how they're used in integrated circuits 
- Key components of modern computers, including registers, GPUs, and RAM 
- Assembly language and how it differs from high-level programming languages
 

Whether you're a computer science student or just want to understand the power of microprocessors, you'll find what you need to know in The Manga Guide to Microprocessors. (Source: No Starch Press)

Join Kanna, Kanta, Yamane, and Gloria in The Manga Guide to the Universe as they explore our solar system, the Milky Way, and faraway galaxies in search of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter, cosmic expansion, and the Big Bang itself.
 
As you rocket across the night sky, you’ll become acquainted with modern astronomy and astrophysics, as well as the classical discoveries and theories on which they’re built. You’ll even learn why some scientists believe finding extraterrestrial life is inevitable!
 
You’ll also learn about:
 
 Discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Hubble, and other seminal astronomers 
 Theories of the universe’s origins, evolution, and geometry 
 The ways you can measure and observe heavenly bodies with different telescopes, and how astronomers calculate distances in space 
 Stellar classifications and how the temperature, size, and magnitude of a star are related 
 Cosmic background radiation, what the WMAP satellite discovered, and scientists’ predictions for the future of the universe 
 
So dust off your flight suit and take a fantastic voyage through the cosmos in The Manga Guide to the Universe.
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

Cryptography is hard, but it’s less hard when it’s filled with adorable Japanese manga. The latest addition to the Manga Guide series.
 
As you follow Inspector Jun Meguro in his quest to bring a cipher-wielding thief to justice, you’ll learn how cryptographic ciphers work. (Ciphers are the algorithms at the heart of cryptography.) Like all books in the Manga Guide series, The Manga Guide to Cryptography is illustrated throughout with memorable Japanese manga as it dives deep into advanced cryptography topics, such as classic substitution, polyalphabetic, and transposition ciphers; symmetric-key algorithms like block and DES (Data Encryption Standard) ciphers; and how to use public key encryption technology. It also explores practical applications of encryption such as digital signatures, password security, and identity fraud countermeasures.
 
The Manga Guide to Cryptography is the perfect introduction to cryptography for programmers, security professionals, aspiring cryptographers, and anyone who finds cryptography just a little bit hard. (Source: No Starch Press)

Rin and Ami have been skipping molecular biology class all semester, and Professor Moro has had enough—he's sentencing them to summer school on his private island. But they're in store for a special lesson. Using Dr. Moro's virtual reality machine to travel inside the human body, they'll get a close-up look at the fascinating world of molecular biology.
 
Join them in The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, and learn all about DNA, RNA, proteins, amino acids, and more. Along the way, you'll see chemical reactions first-hand and meet entertaining characters like Enzyme Man and Drinkzilla, who show how the liver metabolizes alcohol.
 
Together with Ami and Rin, you'll learn all about: 
-The organelles and proteins inside cells, and how they support cellular functions 
-The processes of transcription and translation, and your genes' role in synthesizing proteins 
-The pieces that make up our genetic code, like nucleotides, codons, introns, and exons 
-The processes of DNA replication, mitosis and cytokinesis 
-Genetic technology like transduction and cloning, and the role of molecular biology in medicine. 
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she’s totally failed her final electricity exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time, she has to pass. Luckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is there to help. Join them in the pages of The Manga Guide to Electricity as Rereko examines everyday electrical devices like flashlights, heaters, and circuit breakers, and learns the meaning of abstract concepts like voltage, potential, current, resistance, conductivity, and electrostatic force.

The Manga Guide to Electronic Circuits teaches electronics in a refreshingly simple way using authentic Japanese comics. As readers follow along with the story, they learn electrical fundamentals like Kirchoff's laws, voltage and current amplification, impedance matching, and how to analyze the most complex circuit and signal diagrams. Along the way, they're immersed in the components that make up complex electronic circuits, like amplifiers, oscillators, and modulators, as well as how these circuits use semiconductor devices like diodes and transistors. Ultimately, readers discover how electronic circuits are used to create integrated circuits and computers.
 
(Source: Amazon.com)

A couple of characters from a parallel world, Fuse and Cosmo, gradually raise their level by challenging them with problems on various electrical circuits, from direct and alternating current to electricity generation and transmission.
 
 (Source: DMK Press, translated)

Our bodies are equipped with "immunity," a mechanism that protects us from infection and disease. This book covers the basic mechanism of immune response, as well as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, allergies, and transplantation medicine, which is of current interest. The book introduces the difficult-to-understand mechanisms of immunity in an easy-to-understand manner using cartoons and text explanations, making it a worthwhile introductory text. 
 
(Source: Ohmsha, translated)

This manga is about the wonderful building material concrete and installations made of it. The Romans were the first to use concrete to build roads, bridges, harbors, temples, squares, and water systems, many of which still survive today. Together with the Kenji, an architecture student, and the Sibyl, you'll find out how Roman concrete was different from modern concrete, walk across the Hijiri-Bashi Bridge, and visit the Hukagawa Cement Factory.
 
(Source: DMK Press, translated)

Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology lectures.
 
Join Kumiko in The Manga Guide to Physiology as she examines the inner workings of the body while training hard for the campus marathon. You’ll learn all about:
 
How the digestive system and the Citric Acid Cycle break food down into nutrients and energy 
How the body regulates temperature and vital fluids 
The body’s powerful cell defense system, led by helper T cells and enforced by macrophages 
The architecture of the central nervous system 
The kidneys’ many talents: blood filtration, homeostasis, and energy production 
You’ll also gain insight into medical procedures like electrocardiograms, blood pressure tests, spirograms, and more. 
 
Whether you’re cramming for a test like Kumiko or just want a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physiology is your fun, cartoon guide to the human body.
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

A high school student Aisaka Itsumo, who loves taking apart electronic devices, tries to get a job at an appliance thrift store. The book introduces the reader to the features and types of digital circuits, the reasons for their widespread use, basic logic design techniques, and the ideas behind them.
 
(Source: DMK Press, translated)

Kiyohara Kazuma, a city employee, is assigned a task that cannot be accomplished without machine learning. Under the guidance of his longtime acquaintance Miyano Sayaka, he learns about artificial intelligence, from the very basics to deep learning.
 
(Source: DMK Press, translated)

Everything’s gone screwy at Tagai Academy. When the headmaster forces Minagi’s entire class to study Einstein’s theory of relativity over summer school, Minagi volunteers to go in their place. There’s just one problem: He’s never even heard of relativity before! Luckily, Minagi has the plucky Miss Uraga to teach him.
 
Follow along with The Manga Guide to Relativity as Minagi learns about the non-intuitive laws that shape our universe. Before you know it, you’ll master difficult concepts like inertial frames of reference, unified spacetime, and the equivalence principle. You’ll see how relativity affects modern astronomy and discover why GPS systems and other everyday technologies depend on Einstein’s extraordinary discovery.
 
The Manga Guide to Relativity also teaches you how to:
 
Understand and use E = mc2, the world’s most famous equation 
Calculate the effects of time dilation using the Pythagorean theorem 
Understand classic thought experiments like the Twin Paradox, and see why length contracts and mass increases at relativistic speeds 
Grasp the underpinnings of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity 
 
If the idea of bending space and time really warps your brain, let The Manga Guide to Relativity straighten things out.
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

This manga provides an easy-to-understand explanation of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, where students learn theories for civil engineering design, through cartoons. Our lives are based on the ground. If the ground is not thoroughly investigated and appropriate measures are not taken, problems such as ground subsidence and liquefaction may occur after several decades or even centuries. In other words, geotechnical engineering is such an important and fundamental study that civil engineering, architecture, and social life would not be possible without it. 
The setting of the manga is a university club called the "Soil Study Group. The members of the club ask questions such as, "What is soil? "What are its properties? "Why does liquefaction occur? and so on, and through fieldwork, they come face to face with these mysteries. 
 
(Source: Ohmsha, translated)

Akane, Shiraishi, and Eki go to the same school and additionally participate in the physics club. Akane is the oldest, she is the head of the club, Shiraishi is the smartest, and Eki is the most unpredictable and believes in the occult. One day Eki had a prophetic dream in which a plane crashed and a ship sank. And then she wondered why planes fly and ships don't sink at all. It turns out that the science that can answer these and other questions is called hydrodynamics (or fluid mechanics), and Eki with Akane asked Shiraishi to tell them about it.
 
Together with our characters, we will take a fascinating journey into the world of fluids and learn many new and interesting things about their properties and laws which they obey and which we use in everyday life without even realizing it.
 
(Source: DMK Press, translated)

The manga uses familiar concrete examples of Fourier analysis of images to make the subject understandable.
Through the story of a band of three high school girls, the manga covers the mathematical foundations of Fourier analysis, including differential, integral, and trigonometric functions, in a way that's easy to read. 


Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye.
 
In The Manga Guide to Calculus, you'll follow along with Noriko as she learns that calculus is more than just a class designed to weed out would-be science majors. You'll see that calculus is a useful way to understand the patterns in physics, economics, and the world around us, with help from real-world examples like probability, supply and demand curves, the economics of pollution, and the density of Shochu (a Japanese liquor).
 
Mr. Seki teaches Noriko how to: 
Use differentiation to understand a function's rate of change 
Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus, and grasp the relationship between a function's derivative and its integral 
Integrate and differentiate trigonometric and other complicated functions 
Use multivariate calculus and partial differentiation to deal with tricky functions 
Use Taylor Expansions to accurately imitate difficult functions with polynomials
 
Whether you're struggling through a calculus course for the first time or you just need a painless refresher, you'll find what you're looking for in The Manga Guide to Calculus.
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

Reiji wants two things in life: a black belt in karate and Misa, the girl of his dreams. Luckily, Misa's big brother is the captain of the university karate club and is ready to strike a deal: Reiji can join the club if he tutors Misa in linear algebra.
 
Follow along in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra as Reiji takes Misa from the absolute basics of this tricky subject through mind-bending operations like performing linear transformations, calculating determinants, and finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues. With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, Reiji transforms abstract concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun.
 
As you follow Misa through her linear algebra crash course, you'll learn about:
 
-Basic vector and matrix operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication 
-Linear dependence, independence, and bases 
-Using Gaussian elimination to calculate inverse matrices 
-Subspaces, dimension, and linear span 
-Practical applications of linear algebra in fields like computer graphics, cryptography, and engineering
 
But Misa's brother may get more than he bargained for as sparks start to fly between student and tutor. Will Reiji end up with the girl—or just a pummeling from her oversized brother? Real math, real romance, and real action come together like never before in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra.
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

The four main characters Aya, Rina, Saki, and Yuka invite you into the world of human relationships. You will learn what socially correct behavior is and how best to behave so as not to make others inconvenience you. This subject is studied as a separate major in universities, but at the same time sociology is an applied science necessary for all people living in the modern world. Standards of behavior and attitudes vary from country to country, but there are some common ones. You will also learn about the Japanese New Year's custom of otoshidama and why the Japanese throw a 5 yen coin into the temple, learn to control your emotions and distinguish between rational, irrational and affective actions. But human is not a machine, and their actions cannot be so easily categorized.
 
(Source: DMK Press, translated)

Think you can't have fun learning statistics? Think again.
 
The Manga Guide to Statistics will teach you everything you need to know about this essential discipline, while entertaining you at the same time. With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics called manga and serious educational content, the EduManga format is already a hit in Japan. 

In The Manga Guide to Statistics, our heroine Rui is determined to learn about statistics to impress the dreamy Mr. Igarashi and begs her father for a tutor. Soon she's spending her Saturdays with geeky, bespectacled Mr. Yamamoto, who patiently teaches her all about the fundamentals of statistics: topics like data categorization, averages, graphing, and standard deviation.
 
After all her studying, Rui is confident in her knowledge of statistics, including complex concepts like probability, coefficients of correlation, hypothesis tests, and tests of independence. But is it enough to impress her dream guy? Or maybe there's someone better, right in front of her?
 
Reluctant statistics students of all ages will enjoy learning along with Rui in this charming, easy-to-read guide, which uses real-world examples like teen magazine quizzes, bowling games, test scores, and ramen noodle prices. Examples, exercises, and answer keys help you follow along and check your work. An appendix showing how to perform statistics calculations in Microsoft Excel makes it easy to put Rui's lessons into practice.
 
The second volume is about Factor Analysis, and the third is about Regression Analysis. These two volumes has the additional author INOUE Iroha.
 
Vol. 1: The Manga Guide to Statistics
Vol. 2: The Manga Guide to Factor Analysis
Vol. 3: The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis (Source: No Starch Press)

Kumi loves to eat, but she's worried that her passion for junk food is affecting her health. Determined to unlock the secrets of dieting, she enlists the help of her brainy friend Nemoto and his beautiful biochemistry professor, Dr. Kurosaka. And so it begins...
 
Follow along in The Manga Guide to Biochemistry as Kumi explores the mysteries of her body's inner workings. With the help of RoboCat, the professor's friendly endoscopic robot, you'll soar through the incredible chemical machinery that keeps us alive and get an up-close look at biopolymers like DNA and proteins, the metabolic processes that turn our food into energy, and the enzymes that fuel our bodies' chemical reactions.
 
As you dive into the depths of plant and animal cells, you'll learn about:
 
The metabolism of substances like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and alcohol 
How the energy powerhouses known as mitochondria produce ATP 
DNA transcription and the different types of RNA that work together to translate the genetic code into proteins 
Enzyme kinetics, how they’re measured, and how enzyme inhibition works 
Whether you're a medical student, an amateur scientist, or just curious about how your body turns cupcakes into energy, The Manga Guide to Biochemistry is your key to understanding the science of life.

Megumi is an all-star athlete, but she's a failure when it comes to physics class. And she can't concentrate on her tennis matches when she's worried about the questions she missed on the big test! Luckily for her, she befriends Ryota, a patient physics geek who uses real-world examples to help her understand classical mechanics-and improve her tennis game in the process!
 
In The Manga Guide to Physics, you'll follow alongside Megumi as she learns about the physics of everyday objects like roller skates, slingshots, braking cars, and tennis serves. In no time, you'll master tough concepts like momentum and impulse, parabolic motion, and the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.
 
You'll also learn how to:
 
Apply Newton's three laws of motion to real-life problems 
Determine how objects will move after a collision 
Draw vector diagrams and simplify complex problems using trigonometry 
Calculate how an object's kinetic energy changes as its potential energy increases
 
If you're mystified by the basics of physics or you just need a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physics will get you up to speed in a lively, quirky, and practical way.
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.
 
Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases.
 
In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication.
 
Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequently used SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases.
 
(Of course, it wouldn't be a royal kingdom without some drama, so read on to find out who gets the girl—the arrogant prince or the humble servant.)
 
(Source: No Starch Press)

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