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There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings
Kenn Amdahl
ISBN 0-9627815-9-2
258 pages, trade paper, first printing 1990
$12.95
““I think There Are No Electrons is a major breakthrough in teaching the elementary physics of electricity. It should be required basic reading for high school science students.After 58 years of wandering in an electronic void, even a blockhead like me, who could never visualize the abstract, was able to penetrate the nebulous mists of amps, volts, current, induction, and conductors, and actually understand what the hell they’re all about.
Clive Cussler, bestselling author and adventurer. Cussler's books are published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries with a readership of more than 125 million avid fans. Chairman of NUMA, Cussler is a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He has also been honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration. |
Alas, George finished his earthly manuscript in 2008 and has moved on to that great round table in the ether, where he and Mark Twain are currently trading wisecracks. |
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Michael A. Tolfa, National Science Teachers Association, in "The Science Teacher" "This piece of work probably will go farther to draw people into electronics than anything ever written." |
Robert M. Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Washington, co-author of Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy “There Are No Electrons has become required reading for all my co-op students at Dow Bob Mostafapour, Dow Chemical
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“Amdahl's book has a serious purpose behind the fippancy and silliness: to teach electricity and electronics to mathematics and physics anxiety sufferers. ” Choice Magazine (American Library Assoc) BW's Coda: "Kenn Amdahl is to electronics manuals what Dr. Seuss is to children's books" Scott Rundle, editor Dear Kenn, Some years ago a friend who at that time was unsuccessfully attempting to earn a living repairing electronics suggested I read There are no Electrons. I did and loved it. I commented on it to my brother who was teaching physics at McMaster University and he had used it as a teaching aid. Since then whenever interviewers ask my favourite book I always mention it. Unfortunately I am not regularly interviewed by publications that are read by anyone. Thank you for writing a text book for the masses. Peter Waddington Interestingly, there is another Peter Waddington in Canada I inadvertently linked to who has probably never read the book. I apologize if I have sent visitors to his site who he's had to feed and entertain. He also sounds like a nice guy.
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“The Mysteries of Electricity are Revealed in this bizarre and often amusing text-book-in-a-clownsuit. It'll seem needlessly frivolous and even flippant to the annoying minority that have no trouble copping an A in physics. For the other four billion or so earth citizens, it's about the easiest and clearest course in basic electronics imaginable. It serves well as a refresher course or a solid introduction to the complicated stuff. The presentation is accessible to a sixth-grader, yet I'd gues theat most adults would not be gagged by the author's antics. If you can hack this style of teaching, you'll get what you need." "...rinfescanti, divetenti e incrediblimente semplici che, come in un romanzo di fantascienza, intorducono il lettoer "ingenuo" ne mondo della elettricita....
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): "The book is laced with sarcasm and irony, which have no real place in a text for novices, who cannot easily tell fact from fiction... the book should only be used by a teaching professional, who can safely extract the excellent images available for some situations and ignore the trash...it cannot be recommended." Robert H. Cordella, Jr, office of Research and Development, CIA
Jewelry Inspired by this Book Nick Carter and Felice Luftschein of Philomath, Oregon handcraft jewelry and sell lathes. They just informed us that three of their designs were inspired by this book: Diode Earings, Transformer Earings, and Resistor Earings. That special geek on your Christmas list probably isn't expecting this, so it will be a great surprise |
But the concept was new and therefore seemed risky to publishers. The book was rejected by 89 different publishers and agents before Kenn decided all of them were simply wrong. He formed Clearwater Publishing and released it himself. Since then, it has been in print continuously, sold well, and generated an army of fans around the world. You are about to become one of them. Besides teaching thousands of people about electricity, this book helped inspire all the books for dummies and idiots as well as helping light the path for small publishers everywhere. Today, small companies publish more than half the titles released each year.
You don’t need a desire to learn about electricity to enjoy this book, any more than you need a desire to understand light swords to enjoy Star Wars. The learning is a bonus: you won’t be able to prevent it.
The latest printing has several small changes. Primarily, old nagging typos have been replaced with fresh new typoos.
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