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Title: Chemistry With Infotrac: Principles and Reactions by William L. Masterton, Cecile N. Hurley ISBN: 0-534-40878-8 Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $108.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Less is more; BEST inorganic chemistry book I've seen.
Comment: At first glance, this book looks too abstract, geared more towards high school students. Upon closer examination, I found that the book is extremely well-organized and written in the most concise way possible without losing the essence of the subject.
Only other chemistry book that I think is comparable in quality is "Chemistry 2nd ed" by McMurry. However, if you compare side by side, you will see that the exact same materials are generally discussed in much more concise form with no wordy explanations in Masterton's writing.
I think the book received some negative comments from other reviewers because it appears over simplified; however, I think all the important materials are covered extremely well at college-level. If you believe in efficiency, definitely use this book. However, if you want to look/feel sophisticated, scholarly or pretentious, there's a lot of wordy books out there.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good text book
Comment: I am a UCONN student, where Prof. Masterton and Prof. Hurley are my chemistry teachers. I have to say that this book is very well written, and interesting to read. It explains the priciple in clear and easy to understand fassion, not wordy, not repetitive. The exercises are step by step, and get to the point. The author often makes connection between chemistry and our everyday life. For example, he will expain that sea water is a bit slipery because it's slightly basic. There are some comments that this book is too simple, and not at college level. Well, I'm taking general chemistry course here, with this textbook, and this course is one of the hardest course at UCONN. We judge a book by it's content, not by it's thickness or how pretty the title page is. There are not too many organic stuff here, but most people who is major in chemistry related fields go on to take Organic Chemistry, at here this is the way it is here. This book is supposed to be General introduction to chemistry. And you can certainly get a lot out of it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Absolutely terrible
Comment: Although this book may be useful as a reference, it is a disaster if you are new to chemistry and don't have a professor, who could explain some topics from this book.
In order to understand the book's problems you have to buy separately a solution manual.
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Title: Chemistry: Principles Of Reaction Student Solutions Manual by Cassandra T. Eagle, David G. Farrar ISBN: 0030269172 Publisher: Thomson Learning Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: Student Solutions Manual Chemistry: Principles and Reactions by William L. Masterton, Cecile N. Hurley, Cassandra T. Eagle, David G. Farrar ISBN: 0030189845 Publisher: Thomson Learning Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.75 |
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Title: Chemical Principles in the Laboratory by Emil J. Slowinski, Wayne C. Wolsey, William L. Masterton ISBN: 0030311675 Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company Pub. Date: 02 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $72.95 |
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Title: Chemistry in the Laboratory by James M. Postma, Julian L., Jr Roberts, J. Leland Hollenberg ISBN: 0716735474 Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $65.05 |
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Title: Calculus: Early Transcendentals (with CD-ROM) by James Stewart ISBN: 0534393217 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $135.95 |
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