Math, Science, and Unix Underpants: A Themed FoxTrot Collection |  | Author: Bill Amend
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0740791400
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780740791406
ASIN: 0740791400
Publication Date: October 20, 2009
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Product Description
Jason Fox's perpetual obsession with being the ultimate science and math nerd is an ongoing story line in FoxTrot and one of its most popular themes. In this first ever FoxTrot themed book, the best math, science, and other geek-worthy cartoons are collected for all of FoxTrot's many fans.
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Math, Science, and Unix Underpants January 16, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For most people the worst thing about high school was math, with science running a close second. In //Math, Science, and UNIX Underpants//, those memories are brought back one comic strip at a time. Bill Amend has gone through the archives of Fox Trot and brought out what he thinks are the strips that best represent our collective school nightmares, even if you're like that geek Jason.
//Math, Science, and UNIX Underpants// has some of the funniest moments in Fox Trot history, and they show how the various characters have suffered or exalted in the fields of math and science, and how computers haven't exactly helped the generation divide or sibling warfare. It's interesting to see how the kids fight on every field, even if it's just tweaking the others, and how even the sciences can be wielded like weapons. Part of Fox Trot's appeal has always been how the kids fight and ally, and they don't let even grades get in the way of that. Learning about computers, science, and math are definitely one of our weakest areas, and its interesting to see how Amend has chosen to demonstrate that. This is a great book, especially if you've suffered through school.
Reviewed by Jamais Jochim
 Wonderful reprise December 27, 2009
Kenneth D'ambrosio (Merrimack, NH)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With all due respect to the two-star reviewer, if you don't "get" that this is a distillation of many years' worth of Foxtrots into a book aimed firmly and unapologetically at the "geek" audience; if you're not a Slashdot reader, or if you don't know what "XKCD" is, you're probably not the target audience for this book. Because it is a distillation of Foxtrot -- to the best of my knowledge, the only (formerly) daily strip done by a physicist. And the nerd humor is thick, furious, and vastly enjoyable. Indeed, "billions and billions" of my neurons have gone into enjoying Mr. Amend's -- err, I mean "Jason's" -- sheer evil genius. Whether it's plotting trajectories for rockets to land in Paige's room, or doing pushups to irrational numbers, if you are a member of the target audience, you'll find great enjoyment.
Live long and prosper.
Yes, there is nothing new here, but... November 18, 2009
C.Dundee (Lebanon, Pa)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The title itself says as much in the subtitle: a themed collection. Maybe they should have been clearer,m but if you're a science/math geek(to which these strips are geared), this collection is fun and well put together by creator Bill Amend himself. It covers science/math strips from book one up until the present.
One really cool BONUS: I discovered by accident...that if you leave the book under a fluorescent light for 5 minutes and then take the book into a completely dark room..the 0's and 1's that are on the cover glow in the dark!
Either way, I enjoyed this collection! Nothing new, but still great!
 Reruns November 14, 2009
Mikko (Sweden)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
Warning, this is just a collection of old stuff. If you own the previous albums you have no interest of this.
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