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Sg/Wb-Chemistry:Principles & Reactions
Discover all of the fundamental topics of general chemistry with this brief, reader-oriented book. CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS, 8e, provides a clear, concise presentation based on the authors' more than 50 years of combined teaching experience. The book includes graded and concept-driven examples as well as examples that focus on molecular reasoning and understanding, as well as Chemistry: Beyond the Classroom essays that demonstrate the relevance of the concepts and highlight some of the most up-to-date uses of chemistry. A strong, enhanced art program helps readers visualize chemical concepts. Integrated end-of-chapter questions and Key Concepts correlate to OWLv2, the #1 online homework and tutorial system for chemistry.
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Published January 1, 1993
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October 9, 2014
*review for Kindle version*
This book is horrible.
I don't even know how to describe how horrible it is.
First of all, it's ugly. Like totally unformatted to the point where you look at it and go, "Is this even a textbook?" It's just blobs of text. Walls of text. Text text text.
What about the pictures? Oh yes, there's pictures. They're tiny. You need to click on 'em to make em big, and when you do - BAM. Fuzzy picture. And sometimes the picture doesn't even relate to the topic.
Speaking of relating to topics, THE FOOTNOTES or whatever the comments are called. They're stupid. For the ebook version, they'll have like a horizontal line [insert comment here] horizontal line that takes up a good lot of space. Let me give you an example of what they say: Balmer was a Swiss high-school teacher.
Yes. Okay, sure, we might need to know that. But does it really need to take up a quarter of the page?! Grr. Just adds to the bad formatting.
I got a bit carried away. TO the CONTEXT of the book:
Horrible. Absolutely horrible. The worst. It makes everything unnecessarily complicated. I ended up learning NOTHING from this darn book. It's like the author is trying to make himself sound smart and explain something that would take two sentences an entire page. Not to mention that some of the worked examples have errors!
and lastly
NO PAGES NUMBERS. Hah. So if your teacher tells you to do a problem on page 152 good luck finding it mate!
tldr; If you have to use this book at school, please kindly refer to your friend Chemistry Video Tutorials on Youtube if you want to pass.
This book is horrible.
I don't even know how to describe how horrible it is.
First of all, it's ugly. Like totally unformatted to the point where you look at it and go, "Is this even a textbook?" It's just blobs of text. Walls of text. Text text text.
What about the pictures? Oh yes, there's pictures. They're tiny. You need to click on 'em to make em big, and when you do - BAM. Fuzzy picture. And sometimes the picture doesn't even relate to the topic.
Speaking of relating to topics, THE FOOTNOTES or whatever the comments are called. They're stupid. For the ebook version, they'll have like a horizontal line [insert comment here] horizontal line that takes up a good lot of space. Let me give you an example of what they say: Balmer was a Swiss high-school teacher.
Yes. Okay, sure, we might need to know that. But does it really need to take up a quarter of the page?! Grr. Just adds to the bad formatting.
I got a bit carried away. TO the CONTEXT of the book:
Horrible. Absolutely horrible. The worst. It makes everything unnecessarily complicated. I ended up learning NOTHING from this darn book. It's like the author is trying to make himself sound smart and explain something that would take two sentences an entire page. Not to mention that some of the worked examples have errors!
and lastly
NO PAGES NUMBERS. Hah. So if your teacher tells you to do a problem on page 152 good luck finding it mate!
tldr; If you have to use this book at school, please kindly refer to your friend Chemistry Video Tutorials on Youtube if you want to pass.
February 23, 2016
It's about general chemistry.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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