Chemistry

by Allan Blackman, Steven E. Bottle, Siegbert Schmid

The third edition of Chemistry continues the substantial commitment of Wiley to chemistry education in Australia and New Zealand, as well as for international markets. Chemistry 3e provides the appropriate mix of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry for the 2-semester introductory chemistry course.

In this edition all chapters have been revised, with selected chapter openers and examples being updated to reflect the latest developments in the field of chemistry. New worked examples, practice exercises and end of chapter questions have been added throughout, and many of the existing questions have been reworked with new values.

Genres: Science, Chemistry, Nonfiction, Textbooks

1704 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2005

Reviews

[Bert]

I never have to read this book again. What a beautiful moment.

[Chris Fellows · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is our current First Year Chemistry textbook. It looks like it has the same number of chapters as similar chemistry textbooks, but it is denser and there is more packed into each chapter. For instance, Chapters 4 and 5 are each equivalent to two chapters in Brown and LeMay's Australasian edition, and Chapter 16 corresponds to something between two and three Brown and LeMay chapters.

Overall it gives good coverage, is not overly opaque in its language, and has plenty of problems to work through with each chapter.

A ruthlessly condensed 30-40% off version would be very welcome; Blackman et al. shares a tendency with a lot of these First Year Chemistry textbooks to give a rule, then immediately talk about some interesting and exciting exceptions to the rule, which the students don't really need to know about.

And p.733 of the 2nd Edition has my favourite textbook typo ever.

[Disclaimer: I was a technical editor on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Brown and LeMay Australasian Edition. But I just had to write something when I saw this book sitting here with no reviews.]

[Julian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've entered the deep-end of the internet now that I'm reviewing my chemistry textbook. Poor explanations of concepts and not enough 'real world' examples of chemistry in action. Also, why is it a recurring theme to not include the even answers to questions? Two stars because people spent a lot of time putting this together, and sometimes I refer to it.