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Chemistry: Principles And Reactions : A Core Text
This new updated edition of PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS retains the same focus, providing students with the "core" material essential to understanding the principles of general chemistry but now gives them a unique online assessment and learning tool through the General ChemistryNow web-based system. Topics in Organic Chemistry have also been expanded to provide material for those who want to include this coverage in their course. Masterton and Hurley cover the basics without sacrificing the essentials, appealing to several markets. Appropriate for either a one- or two-semester course, PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS, Fifth Edition is three hundred pages shorter than most general chemistry texts and lives up to its long-standing reputation as THE student-oriented text. Though this text is shorter in length than most other General Chemistry books, it is not lower in level, and with the addition of the large volume of content provided by the revolutionary GENERAL CHEMISTRY INTERACTIVE 3.0 CD-ROM, and, the addition of the new General ChemistryNow web-based program that is included with every copy, it has a depth and breath rivaling much longer books.
736 pages, Hardcover
Published December 8, 2004
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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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