Manga Guide To ... Series

Manga Guide To ... series is originally published by Ohmsha in Japan. Its topics sweep many scientific and engineering disciplines, helping students and hobbyists to get to grips with sometimes complex topics.

Here's a list of all published titles, with short descriptions, and where available ISBN numbers for English editions published by No Starch Press.

Note: Though they've stopped publishing for a while, No Strach Press gave us a heads up on Twitter that they'll continue publishing this series, starting with Manga Guide to Physiology in early 2015.

Manga Guide to Statistics

Manga Guide to Statistics Learn basics of statistics, from standard deviation to normal distribution and more!

This is the first book of the series. Originally published in 2004 it was translated by No Starch Press in 2008.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06570-7
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-189-3

Manga Guide to Regression Analysis

Manga Guide to Statistics
(Regression Analysis Edition) Like its predecessor it describes statistics but with emphasis on regression analysis statistical technique.

Published in 2005, it is planned to be published in English in 2013.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06614-2
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-419-1

Manga Guide to Calculus

Manga Guide to Calculus This book explains the concept of differentiation and integrals (high school 2nd grade level to university freshman level).

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...

Originally published in 2005, it was translated in 2009 to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06632-0
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-194-7

Manga Guide to Databases

Manga Guide to Databases Through the manga story you'll learn about (mainly relational) databases.

Originally published in 2005, it was translated in 2009 to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06631-2
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-190-9

Manga Guide to Fourier Analysis

Manga Guide to Fourier Analysis This book explains the concept of fouries analysis in a convincing, easy-to-understand manner with a manga story using examples familiar to everyday life.

Although originally published in 2006, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06617-7

Manga Guide to to Statistics for Nurses

Manga Guide to Statistics for Nurses The main target of this book is nurses who have been working for a few years. It'll teach them basic statistics and how to understand medical research papers.

Although originally published in 2006, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06649-5

Manga Guide to Statistics (Factor Analysis Edition)

Manga Guide to Statistics
(Factor Analysis Edition) This book aims to help readers understand information from the basics to the application of factor analysis, which is one method of statistical analysis.

Although published in 2006, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06662-2

Manga Guide to Physics (Mechanics Edition)

Manga Guide to Physics (Mechanics Edition) It is a common misunderstanding that physics taught in educational curriculums is not useful for everyday life. This book informs readers that physics is practical. Special focus is placed on explaining dynamics, which is the basics of physics, using manga to enable readers to understand topics in relation to real situations.

Originally published in 2006, it was translated in 2009 to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06665-7
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-196-1

Manga Guide to Electricity

Manga Guide to Electricity With this book readers will be able to master the basic knowledge required for electric engineering, such as phenomena and effects of electricity as well as mechanisms of various electric components. Visualizing invisible electricity using manga and explaining it through familiar examples of everyday home appliances will give students and beginning engineers a fundamental knowledge about electricity.

Originally published in 2006, it was translated in 2009 to English.

ISBN-jp: 4-274-06672-X
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-197-8

Manga Guide to Cryptology

Manga Guide to Cryptology Intended for students, beginning engineers as well as interested general readers, this book describes encryption technology and the mathematics that supports this technology with application examples taken from familiar areas.

Although published in 2007, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06674-0

Manga Guide to Molecular Biology

Manga Guide to Molecular Biology 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.

Originally published in 2008, it was translated in 2009 to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06702-0
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-202-9

Manga Guide to Surveying

Manga Guide to Surveying Surveying is the process of finding out the positional relationship of different points by measuring distance, angle or height balance, etc. between those points. It is an important professional operation involved in many processes such as assessment, designing and building in civil engineering or construction projects. The book helps readers to easily understand the academic basics of surveying through a manga story. This book is suitable for students at universities and technical colleges.

Although originally published in 2008, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06725-9

Manga Guide to Program Logic Control

Manga Guide to Program Logic Control This book describes the fundamentals of program logic control for first learners. Readers will learn the mechanism of mechanical control performed
by various combinations of electronic components.

Although originally published in 2008, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06735-8

Manga Guide to Linear Algebra

Manga Guide to Linear Algebra This book explains the fundamentals of linear algebra. Having placed the target focus of the book at university freshman level, it touches not only on matrix and vector calculations, but also on the essentials of linear algebra such as linear space, linear maps, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

Originally published in 2008, it was translated in 2012 to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06741-9
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-413-9

Manga Guide to Universe

Manga Guide to Universe The universe has always been a target of admiration and intellectual interest by many people. This volume exhaustively introduces the universe from the perspective of both astronomy and cosmophysics. Some new topics such as dark matter are also included. This book is suitable for university students and general readers.

Originally published in 2008, it was translated in 2011 to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06737-2
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-267-8

Manga Guide to Biochemistry

Manga Guide to Biochemistry By revealing the structure or the behavior o|f the substances, this manga book explains the chemical substances that make up our living bodies, and the kinds of chemical reactions that make it possible for them to continue their vital activities. This book is intended for beginners to the biochemistry field to help them easily understand the entire image of biochemistry.

Originally published in 2009, it was translated in 2011 to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06740-2
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-276-0

Manga Guide to Theory of Relativity

Manga Guide to Theory of Relativity The book introduces the principles of the theory of relativity using manga and simple explanations. Avoiding the use of equations, only the concept of the resulting equations is explained visually through familiar phenomena or everyday events in manga and in additional text commentary. It is suitable for highschool and university students.

Originally published in 2009, it was translated in 2011 to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06759-4
ISBN-us: 978-1-59327-272-2

Manga Guide to Electronic Circuits

Manga Guide to Electronic Circuits Through the popular hobby of building a transistor radio, this book will help learners grasp the fundamentals of electronic circuits with ease. In spite of the many important formulas that are featured in this book, its step-by-step explanations utilizing manga and illustrations will make it easy for readers to quickly gain an understanding of this subject.

It was originally published in 2009. Although English publisher No Starch Press planned this translation, they've unfortunately canceled it because of perceived lack of interest...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06777-8

Manga Guide to Hydromechanics

Manga Guide to Hydromechanics This book is organized in such a way that readers will be able to learn about various topics from the fundamentals of mathematics and physics to mechanisms of various phenomena. Important formulas that many people find difficult to grasp are accompanied by information about the history of how the featured formulas were developed. This book is suitable for the beginners to the subject of fluid dynamics and general readers wanting to review the subject.

Although originally published in 2009, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06773-0

Manga Guide to Differential Equations

Manga Guide to Differential Equations Through the manga story told in this book, differential equations are explained by the goddess using familiar examples seen in everyday life. This book will help students and general readers who are poor at mathematics to understand the presented concepts with ease.

Although originally published in 2009, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06786-0

Manga Guide to Quantum Dynamics

Manga Guide to Quantum Dynamics This book covers the transition of perceptions, from traditional to modern, about substances, atoms and quantums, and explains the modern concept of quantum dynamics.

Although originally published in 2009, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06780-8

Manga Guide to Thermodynamics

Manga Guide to Thermodynamics This book explains the fundamentals of thermodynamics. Through the presentation of concise explanations featuring familiar examples, this book enables readers to gain an understanding of even abstract thermodynamics-related subjects such as entropy, in a visual sense. Suitable for first-time learners of thermodynamics.

Although originally published in 2009, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06688-7

Manga Guide to Electric Circuits

Manga Guide to Electric Circuits Related to Manga Guide to Electronic Circuits it describes concepts in electricity, but it does not concentrate on electronics.

Although originally published in 2010, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06795-2

Manga Guide to Semiconductors

Manga Guide to Semiconductors Based on the belief that origins reveal full details, this book's careful explanation starts from by presenting the essence of physical properties (such as crystals and energy bands) and moves on to cover every important technological process so that readers can learn the fundamentals of circuit design.

Although originally published in 2010, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06803-4

Manga Guide to Complex Numbers

Manga Guide to Complex Numbers This book is aimed at students starting university courses who have
no previous knowledge of complex numbers. This book focuses on essential points that need to be understood, and clearly explains them utilizing manga.

Although originally published in 2010, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06823-2

Manga Guide to Project Management

Manga Guide to Project Management Intended audience for this book is young businessmen/businesswomen who have experienced a project work but have not had the experience of managing it.

This book explains project management and introduces its basic methodology. By following a story, the book explains key steps of project
management from start up to closing of a project.

Although originally published in 2011, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06854-6

Manga Guide to Electromagnetism

Manga Guide to Electromagnetism Although it is a basic subject of electrical engineering or physics courses, electromagnetics is a very difficult subject, since it is based on the assumption that one already has an understanding of partial differentiation, multiple integrals, or vector analysis. And for another reason, there are many theorems and formulas in electromagnetics of which key relationships are not apparently clear. However, when all the equations are summarized and regulated by Maxwell's equations from the originally independent, widely varying laws, one can realize that electromagnetics is a very well-formed body of theory that can be started from Coulomb's law, which is a basic subject taught in high schools, and concluded with four types of equations that can explain various
phenomenon.

Originally published in 2011, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06849-2

Manga Guide to Civil Engineering

Manga Guide to Civil Engineering Along with earth and water, concrete is a critical component in the study of civil engineering. The study is divided into two parts: "Structure (structural mechanics)" and "Engineering (materials science)." Using manga, this book focuses on engineering (materials science) and thoroughly explains the subject to enable readers who are not familiar with concrete to quickly and easily familiarize themselves with the subject.

Although originally published in 2011, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06860-7

Manga Guide to Mathematics for Electrical Engineering

Manga Guide to Mathematics for Electrical Engineering This book provides easy-to-understand explanations in conjunction with mathematical equations that are essential for solving problems related to electric circuits. In the process of solving sample problems presented in this volume, readers will gain a deeper understanding of related
mathematics.

Although originally published in 2011, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06819-5

Manga Guide to Physiology

Manga Guide to Physiology This introductory book uses simple language to explain physiology. Physiology is primarily a study of our bodies' "Structure (anatomy)" and "Function (physiology)", and it is the most important among the fundamentals used for educating those in the medical treatment profession, including nurses. Although this is a critical subject, this book enables readers who are experiencing difficulty memorizing subjects to smoothly gain an understanding of the key points about structures and functions of various organs such as muscles, blood, the respiratory system, internal secretion and central nerves, utilizing manga.

Intended readers are nurses or students in nursing courses, those who are involved or aim to be involved in medical treatment, students who feel difficulty in physiology.

Although originally published in 2011, it was never translated to English.

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06871-3

Manga Guide to Material Dynamics

Manga Guide to Material Dynamics In material dynamics, material properties, strength and transformation are studied based on whether or not the material is able to be broken. This book picks out from among the basic of material dynamics, a required field in the study of mechanical engineering, key points that need to be understood and explains them in an easy-to-understand way. The book also introduces the calculation method used to estimate transformation and loads that are the characteristics of materials. Revealing concrete phenomenon that will be familiar to many readers, this book points out specific points they need to pay attention to, while complicated aspects, such as numerical formulas, are thoroughly explained in Follow-up explanations.

Originally published in 2012...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06875-1

Manga Guide to Battery Cells

Manga Guide to Battery Cells This book clearly explains the fundamentals of battery cell technology for first-time learners. As we cannot easily see inside battery cells, the mechanism of these cells is not widely known. This book explains the mechanisms and peripheral technologies of various cells, from daily-use cells to fuel cells with significant future potential through its easy-to-understand manga story.

Originally published in 2012...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06877-5

Manga Guide to Sociology

Manga Guide to Sociology Sociology is a science that is utilized in all aspects of our everyday life. From administration, sales and advertising to product development. This book will help you understand science of sociology.

Originally published in 2012...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06899-7

Manga Guide to Digital Circuits

Manga Guide to Digital Circuits This is an introductory book explaining digital circuits using Manga. A digital
circuit is a circuit that carries digital signals with discrete values, usually two signal levels, such as High and Low or 1 or 2. Although a set of two signals sounds rather simple, combining them can create various complicated logic circuits, the theory of which people often find difficult to grasp. This book therefore explains fundamental circuits, such as logic circuits, through a manga story to enable readers to grasp the basic theory visually. As the explanation deals not only with theories of combinational or sequential circuits but also with designing of the circuits, it makes for a very practical book.

Originally published in 2013...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06958-1

Manga Guide to Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electricity

Manga Guide to Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electricity When we look at our everyday life, it becomes easy to realize how many benefits we receive from electricity. Even information technology, which is critical to today's world, cannot exist without a stable power supply system, i.e. electricity. As we all know, the power supply system is one of the most important infrastructures that support modern society, and the technology behind power supply systems in particular has been drawing people's attention in recent years. Describing the structure of electricity and wiring systems, this book also covers environment-related issues, new forms of energy, such as dispersed power sources and smart grids, and clearly explains the equipment, installation, operation and control of modern electricity systems.

Originally published in 2013...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06924-6

Manga Guide to Electric Motors

Manga Guide to Electric Motors To operate machines and objects, an electric motor, an electricity-powered device that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, is necessary. Due to the way electric motors have been miniaturized, such as the invention of the neodymium magnet and advances in computer-related technology, electric motors have become more widely used in a variety of electrical devices. Cars typically contain more than 100 electric motors, and the number is growing year by year. This book features DC electric motors, synchronous electric motors, induction electric motors and brushless electric motors and, using manga and text explanations, explains key principles including how to control electric motors, which are the driving mechanism behind a wide range of electrical equipment.

Originally published in 2014...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-05010-7

Manga Guide to Organic Chemistry

Manga Guide to Molecular Biology Basics of chemistry/ Basics of organic chemistry/ Structure of organic compounds/ Properties of organic compounds/ Reaction of organic compounds/ Organic chemistry of living things

Originally published in 2014...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-06957-4

Manga Guide to Immunology

Manga Guide to Immunology Cells that are controlled by immune reactions/ Fundamental principles of mechanisms of acquired immune systems/ Detection of virus by innate immune systems/ Mechanism of anti-gen specific reactions/ How diversity develops and the emergence of self-tolerance/ Mechanism of antibody production/ Infectious diseases and the division of labor between immune cells/ Cancer immunology/ Allergy and autoimmune diseases/ Transplantation therapy, regenerative medicine and immunology

Originally published in 2014...

ISBN-jp: 978-4-274-05009-1

Last update: Oct 18, 2014