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Study Guide for Masterson/Hurley’s Chemistry: Principles and Reactions, 4th
To accomplish your course goals, use this study guide to enhance your understanding of the text content and to be better prepared for quizzes and tests. This convenient manual helps you assimilate and master the information encountered in the text through the use of practice exercises and applications, comprehensive review tools, and additional helpful resources.
400 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2000
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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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