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September 29, 2009

The Manga Guide to Databases (Paperback)

Filed under: Manga Books — Tags: Databases, Guide, manga, Paperback — animaka @ 10:23 pm

Product Description

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.)

This EduManga book is a translation of a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan.

About the Author

Mana Takahashi is a graduate of the Tokyo University, Faculty of Economics. She is an active technical writer and has published a number of books on topics such as Java, C, XML, Information Engineering, and System Administration.

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September 28, 2009

The Manga Guide to Statistics (Paperback)

Filed under: Manga Books — Tags: Guide, manga, Paperback, Statistics — animaka @ 5:20 pm

Product Description

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.

This EduManga book is a translation from a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan.

About the Author

Shin Takahashi graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Kyushu University in Japan. He has worked as a lecturer and as a data analyst and is currently employed as a technical writer. Takahashi has published several books in the Japanese Manga Guide series, including Statistics-Factor Analysis Edition and Statistics-Regression Analysis Edition (both published by Ohmsha).

Trend Pro, Inc. is a pioneer of Ad-Manga–advertisement and advertising using Manga–in Japan. The company has produced over 1,700 Ad-Manga for over 700 clients, including many well-known public companies and government agencies. The company has over 100 registered professional Manga artists.

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September 23, 2009

The Manga Guide to Physics (Paperback)

Filed under: Manga Books — Tags: Guide, manga, Paperback, physics — animaka @ 5:18 pm

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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.

About the Author

Hideo Nitta, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Physics at Tokyo Gakugei University. He has had many papers and books published by Japanese and overseas publishers on subjects including quantum dynamics and radiation physics. He also has a strong interest in physics education. He is a member of the International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE), which is a commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

Trend Pro, Inc. is a pioneer of Ad-Manga–advertisement and advertising using Manga–in Japan. The company has produced over 1,700 Ad-Manga for over 700 clients, including many well-known public companies and government agencies. The company has over 100 registered professional Manga artists.

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September 19, 2009

Harvey And Etsuko’s Manga Guide To Japan (Paperback)

Filed under: Manga Books — Tags: Etsuko's, Guide, Harvey, japan, manga, Paperback — animaka @ 2:51 pm

Review

Manga has conquered America. Or so declares the November issue of the U.S. tech magazine Wired, which carries a 10-page manga story describing how manga is reshaping American pop culture. Booming manga sales which, according to the magazine, account for almost two-thirds of the $330-million graphic novel market in the U.S. also mean much of the traditional American comics are doomed. Charles Danziger, a New York lawyer with Japanese clients and a keen cartoonist, has been inspired by the reversal of fortunes between the two forms. That’s why he teamed up with manga artist Mimei Sakamoto on a cultural guide to Japan titled “Harvey & Etsuko’s Manga Guide to Japan.” The book, which mixes manga illustrations with American comic strips, features four characters Danziger and Sakamoto, as well as their alter-egos: Harvey, a New York mouse drawn by Danziger in a Garfield-esque, traditional cartoon style, and Etsuko, a sexy manga cat drawn by Sakamoto. Harvey, originally not interested in Japan, comes to the country looking for work. There he meets Etsuko, and the two discover Japan together and become great friends. The 192-page paperback covers aspects of Japanese society that many Western visitors find odd or amusing, such as the common sight of men practicing golf swings on train platforms. It also contains “Harvey’s Little Extra Guide to Japan” Danziger’s short, witty essays on various Japanese customs and cultures, ranging from tea ceremony and society’s tolerance for the yakuza to the kawaii (cute) phenomenon and plastic food samples seen in restaurant windows. Like many of the female characters in Japanese manga and anime, Sakamoto’s drawings of herself and Etsuko are cute but also busty and seductive, often pouting their thick and glossy lips. Sakamoto, who rose to fame drawing “ladies’ comics,” a manga genre for the adult female audience rich with graphic sex scenes, insists that these are badly needed features to give the book an “edge.” –The Japan Times, Dec. 4, 2007

Product Description

Charles Danziger and Mimei Sakamoto team up for a zany “West Meets East” look at what happens when a cartoon mouse from Manhattan asks a cartoon cat from Tokyo to help him find the keys to fame and fortune Japan. Etsuko offers to introduce Harvey to the country’s most famous manga artist, but only if he can first pass a test about all things Japanese. Meanwhile, Harvey is on another, equally important misson — to track down a kidnapped cartoonist known as “The Big Cheez.” Thus begins Harvey’s adventure into the wonderful world of capsule hotels, public baths, pachinko parlors, karaoke clubs… and more!

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September 13, 2009

The Manga Guide to Electricity (Paperback)

Filed under: Manga Books — Tags: Electricity, Guide, manga, Paperback — animaka @ 3:25 pm

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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 real-world examples that you’ll find in The Manga Guide to Electricity will teach you:

What electricity is, how it works, how it’s created, and how it can be used
The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance (Ohm’s law)
Key electrical concepts like inductance and capacitance
How complicated components like transformers, semiconductors, diodes, and transistors work
How electricity produces heat and the relationship between current and magnetic fields

If thinking about how electricity works really fries your brain, let The Manga Guide to Electricity teach you all things electrical in a shockingly fun way.

About the Author

Kazuhiro Fujitaki is a lecturer at the Tokyo Metropolitan Vocational Skills Development Center. He has written a number of books on electrical engineering and runs a website offering useful information about Japan’s qualifying examinations for electrical technicians.

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