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 Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrations inside the pages of this book. Plus, you might actually learn something, as each element is fully described in detail: the name, its symbol, its atomic number, its atomic weight, its color, its standard state, and its classification.
The elements are also broken down into eleven separate categories, including the Alkali Metals, the Transition Elements, the Boron Elements, the Carbon Elements, the Nitrogen Elements, the Oxygen Elements, the Halogen Elements, the Noble Gases, the Lanthanides and Actinides, and the Transactinides.
This is the perfect, easy-to-use reference guide for people of all ages, and the included poster can easily be used for an educating, stylish decorating tool. Who knew elements could be so interesting??
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
Elements with Style indeed!, 21 May 2007
Although the previous reviewer is correct in saying that not all the elements were represented in this book - I think this is not the point of the book.....Some elements, as I'm sure he is aware, have only been detected for millonths of a second - so writing much about them might, at this level, be a bit tough! I thought it was a wonderfully attractive book that breathed some new life into this subject - it was an excellent idea to give each of the elements a "personality"; and the text, on the whole, was witty and entertaining and accurate!
Short-changed, 25 Apr 2007
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete.
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrations inside the pages of this book. Plus, you might actually learn something, as each element is fully described in detail: the name, its symbol, its atomic number, its atomic weight, its color, its standard state, and its classification.
The elements are also broken down into eleven separate categories, including the Alkali Metals, the Transition Elements, the Boron Elements, the Carbon Elements, the Nitrogen Elements, the Oxygen Elements, the Halogen Elements, the Noble Gases, the Lanthanides and Actinides, and the Transactinides.
This is the perfect, easy-to-use reference guide for people of all ages, and the included poster can easily be used for an educating, stylish decorating tool. Who knew elements could be so interesting??
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
Elements with Style indeed!, 21 May 2007
Although the previous reviewer is correct in saying that not all the elements were represented in this book - I think this is not the point of the book.....Some elements, as I'm sure he is aware, have only been detected for millonths of a second - so writing much about them might, at this level, be a bit tough! I thought it was a wonderfully attractive book that breathed some new life into this subject - it was an excellent idea to give each of the elements a "personality"; and the text, on the whole, was witty and entertaining and accurate!
Short-changed, 25 Apr 2007
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete.
Thank you!, 20 May 2004
I've been getting really worried about my gcse maths revision, and I've been all set to fail, but this book is heaven sent!It's got explanations of everything you'll need, notes, questions, multiple choice options and answers. The only negative I can think of is that it isn't colourful like some, but when it comes to maths it's practice that makes perfect, and you get every chance to do that with this book!The proof will be in the pudding when I sit my exam in a few weeks, but I already feel confident that it's all gonna be....just fine! A definate must have on my revision shelf!
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrations inside the pages of this book. Plus, you might actually learn something, as each element is fully described in detail: the name, its symbol, its atomic number, its atomic weight, its color, its standard state, and its classification.
The elements are also broken down into eleven separate categories, including the Alkali Metals, the Transition Elements, the Boron Elements, the Carbon Elements, the Nitrogen Elements, the Oxygen Elements, the Halogen Elements, the Noble Gases, the Lanthanides and Actinides, and the Transactinides.
This is the perfect, easy-to-use reference guide for people of all ages, and the included poster can easily be used for an educating, stylish decorating tool. Who knew elements could be so interesting??
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
Elements with Style indeed!, 21 May 2007
Although the previous reviewer is correct in saying that not all the elements were represented in this book - I think this is not the point of the book.....Some elements, as I'm sure he is aware, have only been detected for millonths of a second - so writing much about them might, at this level, be a bit tough! I thought it was a wonderfully attractive book that breathed some new life into this subject - it was an excellent idea to give each of the elements a "personality"; and the text, on the whole, was witty and entertaining and accurate!
Short-changed, 25 Apr 2007
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete.
Thank you!, 20 May 2004
I've been getting really worried about my gcse maths revision, and I've been all set to fail, but this book is heaven sent!It's got explanations of everything you'll need, notes, questions, multiple choice options and answers. The only negative I can think of is that it isn't colourful like some, but when it comes to maths it's practice that makes perfect, and you get every chance to do that with this book!The proof will be in the pudding when I sit my exam in a few weeks, but I already feel confident that it's all gonna be....just fine! A definate must have on my revision shelf!
AMAZING!!, 21 Aug 2008
This book is fantastic!
I have just received my GCSE results and have got two A's in my science Double Award!! I would have never have got them if I had not used this book and also the chemistry edition.
It makes the work seem interesting and you think less about the revision!
Definately buy it!
FANTASTIC, 13 Feb 2008
What can i say, a great book really fantastic as all the ones in this series are!!
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrations inside the pages of this book. Plus, you might actually learn something, as each element is fully described in detail: the name, its symbol, its atomic number, its atomic weight, its color, its standard state, and its classification.
The elements are also broken down into eleven separate categories, including the Alkali Metals, the Transition Elements, the Boron Elements, the Carbon Elements, the Nitrogen Elements, the Oxygen Elements, the Halogen Elements, the Noble Gases, the Lanthanides and Actinides, and the Transactinides.
This is the perfect, easy-to-use reference guide for people of all ages, and the included poster can easily be used for an educating, stylish decorating tool. Who knew elements could be so interesting??
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
Elements with Style indeed!, 21 May 2007
Although the previous reviewer is correct in saying that not all the elements were represented in this book - I think this is not the point of the book.....Some elements, as I'm sure he is aware, have only been detected for millonths of a second - so writing much about them might, at this level, be a bit tough! I thought it was a wonderfully attractive book that breathed some new life into this subject - it was an excellent idea to give each of the elements a "personality"; and the text, on the whole, was witty and entertaining and accurate!
Short-changed, 25 Apr 2007
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete.
Thank you!, 20 May 2004
I've been getting really worried about my gcse maths revision, and I've been all set to fail, but this book is heaven sent!It's got explanations of everything you'll need, notes, questions, multiple choice options and answers. The only negative I can think of is that it isn't colourful like some, but when it comes to maths it's practice that makes perfect, and you get every chance to do that with this book!The proof will be in the pudding when I sit my exam in a few weeks, but I already feel confident that it's all gonna be....just fine! A definate must have on my revision shelf!
AMAZING!!, 21 Aug 2008
This book is fantastic!
I have just received my GCSE results and have got two A's in my science Double Award!! I would have never have got them if I had not used this book and also the chemistry edition.
It makes the work seem interesting and you think less about the revision!
Definately buy it!
FANTASTIC, 13 Feb 2008
What can i say, a great book really fantastic as all the ones in this series are!!
the ultimate revision guide., 05 Mar 2007
If you don't have this book, go buy it now. I assure you, it will be worth the buy. I used to be a C/D student in Chemistry, and after I used this book, I got an A on my mock exams.
This revision guide contains basically everything you need to know for your exams; whether they're GCSE or IGCSE. (I take the IGCSE, and i used this revision guide)
it covers material for both the dual award and separate sciences; it goes over:
1.classifying materials (solids, liquids and gases, changes of state, atoms, bonding, etc etc)
2. Earth Metals (hydrocarbons, fractional distillation of crude oil, catalytic cracking, metal ores, the blast furnace, ammonia, limestone, the reactivities series)
3. Equations (balancing, half equations, empirical formula, etc etc)
4. Air and Rock (today's atmosphere, the carbon cycle, rocks, weathering, the water cycle, etc etc)
5. periodic table
6. reaction rates
7. additional material for people who are doing separate sciences.
A Great help, 02 Aug 2006
I own this book among many other CGP revision guides, and the way they explain information is way above the rest. In each chapter, you revise the topic, and then are tested to ensure you understand.
They even make it funny!
I have just finished my year 10 exams, and they were a great help - without them i definatly wouldnt've got an A in Chemistry and Biology.
I really recommend this revision guide.
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrations inside the pages of this book. Plus, you might actually learn something, as each element is fully described in detail: the name, its symbol, its atomic number, its atomic weight, its color, its standard state, and its classification.
The elements are also broken down into eleven separate categories, including the Alkali Metals, the Transition Elements, the Boron Elements, the Carbon Elements, the Nitrogen Elements, the Oxygen Elements, the Halogen Elements, the Noble Gases, the Lanthanides and Actinides, and the Transactinides.
This is the perfect, easy-to-use reference guide for people of all ages, and the included poster can easily be used for an educating, stylish decorating tool. Who knew elements could be so interesting??
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
Elements with Style indeed!, 21 May 2007
Although the previous reviewer is correct in saying that not all the elements were represented in this book - I think this is not the point of the book.....Some elements, as I'm sure he is aware, have only been detected for millonths of a second - so writing much about them might, at this level, be a bit tough! I thought it was a wonderfully attractive book that breathed some new life into this subject - it was an excellent idea to give each of the elements a "personality"; and the text, on the whole, was witty and entertaining and accurate!
Short-changed, 25 Apr 2007
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete.
Thank you!, 20 May 2004
I've been getting really worried about my gcse maths revision, and I've been all set to fail, but this book is heaven sent!It's got explanations of everything you'll need, notes, questions, multiple choice options and answers. The only negative I can think of is that it isn't colourful like some, but when it comes to maths it's practice that makes perfect, and you get every chance to do that with this book!The proof will be in the pudding when I sit my exam in a few weeks, but I already feel confident that it's all gonna be....just fine! A definate must have on my revision shelf!
AMAZING!!, 21 Aug 2008
This book is fantastic!
I have just received my GCSE results and have got two A's in my science Double Award!! I would have never have got them if I had not used this book and also the chemistry edition.
It makes the work seem interesting and you think less about the revision!
Definately buy it!
FANTASTIC, 13 Feb 2008
What can i say, a great book really fantastic as all the ones in this series are!!
the ultimate revision guide., 05 Mar 2007
If you don't have this book, go buy it now. I assure you, it will be worth the buy. I used to be a C/D student in Chemistry, and after I used this book, I got an A on my mock exams.
This revision guide contains basically everything you need to know for your exams; whether they're GCSE or IGCSE. (I take the IGCSE, and i used this revision guide)
it covers material for both the dual award and separate sciences; it goes over:
1.classifying materials (solids, liquids and gases, changes of state, atoms, bonding, etc etc)
2. Earth Metals (hydrocarbons, fractional distillation of crude oil, catalytic cracking, metal ores, the blast furnace, ammonia, limestone, the reactivities series)
3. Equations (balancing, half equations, empirical formula, etc etc)
4. Air and Rock (today's atmosphere, the carbon cycle, rocks, weathering, the water cycle, etc etc)
5. periodic table
6. reaction rates
7. additional material for people who are doing separate sciences.
A Great help, 02 Aug 2006
I own this book among many other CGP revision guides, and the way they explain information is way above the rest. In each chapter, you revise the topic, and then are tested to ensure you understand.
They even make it funny!
I have just finished my year 10 exams, and they were a great help - without them i definatly wouldnt've got an A in Chemistry and Biology.
I really recommend this revision guide.
brilliant, 18 Jan 2007
i've used this book for both my maths modular exams now and i think the're excellent. its good because they seperate the book into chunks and also its got exercises at the end of each page. very very good i recommend this to anyone who's fed up with the normal reading revision books.
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it. Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course. Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam. a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !) Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :) Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths! Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths! Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11! Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it. So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going! Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates. Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrations inside the pages of this book. Plus, you might actually learn something, as each element is fully described in detail: the name, its symbol, its atomic number, its atomic weight, its color, its standard state, and its classification.
The elements are also broken down into eleven separate categories, including the Alkali Metals, the Transition Elements, the Boron Elements, the Carbon Elements, the Nitrogen Elements, the Oxygen Elements, the Halogen Elements, the Noble Gases, the Lanthanides and Actinides, and the Transactinides.
This is the perfect, easy-to-use reference guide for people of all ages, and the included poster can easily be used for an educating, stylish decorating tool. Who knew elements could be so interesting??
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius" Elements with Style indeed!, 21 May 2007
Although the previous reviewer is correct in saying that not all the elements were represented in this book - I think this is not the point of the book.....Some elements, as I'm sure he is aware, have only been detected for millonths of a second - so writing much about them might, at this level, be a bit tough! I thought it was a wonderfully attractive book that breathed some new life into this subject - it was an excellent idea to give each of the elements a "personality"; and the text, on the whole, was witty and entertaining and accurate! Short-changed, 25 Apr 2007
The concept behind this book is quite appealing: present cameo portraits of the elements of the periodic table as if they were personalities (Lead: "Don't let my heavyweight status fool you---at heart I'm a totally malleable softie...") accompanied by fun, manga-style cartoon characters. This kind of approach has the potential to appeal to older children.
Where it falls down is that of the 111 elements shown on the folded 9.5" x 13.5" poster at the back of the book, only 54 (i.e. less than half) are actually written up in the book proper. Thus, for example, Cadmium, shown on the back cover, and Polonium---intriguingly shown on the front cover no less---are conspicuously absent. The Boron elements mysteriously stop after Aluminium; missing are Gallium, Indium and Thallium. The entirety of the Lanthanoids and Transactinides has been given short-shrift.
These are disappointing omissions. The end product is frustratingly superficial, redundant (who cares about Lead---tell me something interesting about an element I may have never heard of e.g. Gallium, Europium, Astatine etc) and incomplete. Thank you!, 20 May 2004
I've been getting really worried about my gcse maths revision, and I've been all set to fail, but this book is heaven sent!It's got explanations of everything you'll need, notes, questions, multiple choice options and answers. The only negative I can think of is that it isn't colourful like some, but when it comes to maths it's practice that makes perfect, and you get every chance to do that with this book!The proof will be in the pudding when I sit my exam in a few weeks, but I already feel confident that it's all gonna be....just fine! A definate must have on my revision shelf! AMAZING!!, 21 Aug 2008
This book is fantastic!
I have just received my GCSE results and have got two A's in my science Double Award!! I would have never have got them if I had not used this book and also the chemistry edition.
It makes the work seem interesting and you think less about the revision!
Definately buy it! FANTASTIC, 13 Feb 2008
What can i say, a great book really fantastic as all the ones in this series are!! the ultimate revision guide., 05 Mar 2007
If you don't have this book, go buy it now. I assure you, it will be worth the buy. I used to be a C/D student in Chemistry, and after I used this book, I got an A on my mock exams.
This revision guide contains basically everything you need to know for your exams; whether they're GCSE or IGCSE. (I take the IGCSE, and i used this revision guide)
it covers material for both the dual award and separate sciences; it goes over:
1.classifying materials (solids, liquids and gases, changes of state, atoms, bonding, etc etc)
2. Earth Metals (hydrocarbons, fractional distillation of crude oil, catalytic cracking, metal ores, the blast furnace, ammonia, limestone, the reactivities series)
3. Equations (balancing, half equations, empirical formula, etc etc)
4. Air and Rock (today's atmosphere, the carbon cycle, rocks, weathering, the water cycle, etc etc)
5. periodic table
6. reaction rates
7. additional material for people who are doing separate sciences. A Great help, 02 Aug 2006
I own this book among many other CGP revision guides, and the way they explain information is way above the rest. In each chapter, you revise the topic, and then are tested to ensure you understand.
They even make it funny!
I have just finished my year 10 exams, and they were a great help - without them i definatly wouldnt've got an A in Chemistry and Biology.
I really recommend this revision guide. brilliant, 18 Jan 2007
i've used this book for both my maths modular exams now and i think the're excellent. its good because they seperate the book into chunks and also its got exercises at the end of each page. very very good i recommend this to anyone who's fed up with the normal reading revision books. Brilliant, 08 Jan 2007
Everyone has their own way of revising. Some use flow diagrams or minds maps, some prefer revision cards, and some really learn from working through a revision guide. If you, like me learn best from this, this bok is fantastic.
Each topic is a chapter, and it guides you through with diagrams and bright clours, which makes it very readable. It says that at the end of each page you should write down what you have learnt from this page, and at the end of every chapter there's some revision questions and some practise exam questions. Used properly, this book leads you into the exam properly prepared.
I have the CGP books for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, French and Geography and I think they're brilliant Best Friend, 18 Jan 2006
It was a wonderful 3 weeks with this book, I still cannot believ that I managed to revise the whole 2 years worth of Phyiscs in that time. I was desperate and needed a quick fix to turn my grades around. So glad, I purchased this book. First I bought chemistry, then finding out how much it was helping me, I bought one for biology and phyiscs from the same author (I already had mathematics from the same author). Best decision I have ever made. I someone how managed to turn my grades from a descending C grade and below into an A*. So proud, but you must be warned this book must be taken seriously, there is a lot to take in, but if you read a chapter every day it will do you a lot of good in the long run. Why I say that this book is my best friend, is because it helped me, it was there for me, told me the tips and tricks and helped me to get where I wanted to go. After finding out in class that I actually getting smarter we soon became insperable. :D Thanks CGP!
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Customer Reviews
Over-complicated, 19 Apr 2008
I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
Another CGP star, 02 Aug 2007
This is another great revision guide from CGP - full of light-hearted 'jokes' and puns that help to keep you going. As usual there is focus on what you really need to know, which helps if you have a geography teacher like mine who is in love with the subject and thinks we all are too, and also thinks he is preparing us all for doign a geography degree... The clear diagrams are great for understanding key ideas, and the cartoons help you remember stuff as well as being fun. The revision summaries are good for checking that you have absorbed everything. The only downside really is that only parts of the guide are relevant to my course - edexel A - so you have to keep checking whether you need to know that bit or not. But it is SOOO much clearer and easier to understand than the edexel textbook and revision book school gave me (Tomorrow's Geography) it's well worth it.
Better books out there, 04 Jan 2007
I bought this book along with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (which are amazing by the way) hoping that it would cut down a lot on faffing about during revision. While this would have been the case had i gone along with it, I found that this book is mising *so* much. Sure, it covers the gist of pretty much everything, but with a finickety (or at last, finickety for getting good marks in exams) subject like Geography, a revision guide or textbook needs to be comprehensive as well as concise (ok, somewhat of an oxymoron, but as you'll find out later it's not too much to ask). Case studies come up in the form of big mark questions on the exam and this book doesn't really provide any. Granted, there are lots of different syllabus' and its pretty tough for any one book to cover all of them without being the size of a hippopotamus. A book I would reccomend, however, is Understanding GCSE Geography by Heineman - particularly good for me as this is tailored to the specification A AQA course (which, surprise surprise is the one I'm doing). So, in short, my point is, save you tenner and don't get this book: buy one thats tailored to your course.
Surprisingly Good, 08 May 2005
I am currently studying for GCSE Geography and buying this book has summarised all that I need to know in adequate detail. The jokes are not good. The information includes examples of areas which are essential for the main exam.
a very good book, 20 Feb 2003
I am using this book to help me through my GCSE Geography and so far I have found that this book has been very helpful. It is well set out and makes revision more interesting !! (even if the jokes are poor !)
Yay for CGP, 10 Apr 2007
For when I don't understand a topic, the CGP book saves the day. Fantastic! Clear, consise points, partnered with clear and colourful diagrams. The book also has some amusing points in it to make you smile :)
Brilliant revision guide, 30 Jul 2006
I bought this guide in the months before my GCSE exam - in my opinion, this book is the only reason I passed! It covers so much information in such a short book, and in an easy-to-remember format. The pages are colourful and make revision easier to handle, and although the jokes aren't quite as funny as they are intended to be, they keep you involved in what you're reading. The summaries qnd questions at the end of each chapter are also very useful.
Recommended to anyone taking GCSE Maths!
Full of "jollyisms", 15 Jun 2006
This book attempts, and suceeds, in making maths fun!
It explains everything in brilliant detail and includes both calculator and non-calculator methods.
Would recommend for anyone who is studying GCSE Maths!
Excellent!, 31 Jul 2005
Buy this in the summer before you start learning GCSE maths, and you will ace the exams! Year 10 or 11!
Fab, 14 Jun 2005
Clear explanations with humour to add easy. End of module questions. An essential for GCSE Mathematics. I certainly wouldn't have done as well without it.
So nearly perfect!, 07 Apr 2008
My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
Just the best Periodic Table EVER!!!, 18 Jul 2007
This is how Science is supposed to be - FUN!
The book is accurate and covers everything a young mind would need to know about the elements and the little poster that comes with it (not shown here but is folded up in the back of the bok) is AMAZING!
I have scoured the internet for a periodic table for my son, and they come in many shapes and sizes but htis one is ideal as the colourful cartoon characters each element is given are represented on the chart too and he is really keen to learn all about them!
The book is written in the first person for each element and several interesting facts are given for each element as well as the important scientific data in easy to refer to bullet point form at the top of every page.
The elements are grouped correctly and each group has its own title page with description of the main features of each group (i.e. what makes the group what it is and how to identify elements that belong to that group)
the book is smaller than I thought but that just makes it even more accesible and the text is a good size, not too big, yet big enough to keep small eyes glued to the page.
I am now on the hunt to see if Kingfisher have published any more science books in this style as I want them all
Also an ideal read for Adults trying to pick up Science again after many years ( like me)
Super - really worth the money, and mine was delivered in 2 days.
OK - so its not for chemistry A-level or above, but anything below that level is sure to love it and to behonest I am thrilled that the book has given my son of 9 a chance to access the periodic table and that I won't all be far too tedious for him when he gets into Chemistry more later - he'll be one up on his classmates.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too, 30 May 2007
Who said chemistry had to be boring? (I'm sure no one has ever said this, but someone sure forgot to tell my science teacher!) Basher and Adrian Dingle have come together to create an entertaining and valuable resource for students with their version of the 111 elements.
Whether you're studying chemistry in school right now or not, you're sure to get a kick out of the full-color illustrati | | |