Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach

Editorial ReviewsAbout the AuthorThomas R. Gilbert has a BS in chemistry from Clarkson and a PhD in analytical chemistry from MIT. After 10 years with the Research Department of the New England Aquarium in Boston, he joined the faculty of Northeastern University, where he is currently associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology. His research interests are in chemical and science education. He teaches general chemistry and science education courses and conducts professional development workshops for K–12 teachers. He has won Northeastern’s Excellence in Teaching Award and Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Engineering Students Award. He is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and in 2012 was elected to the ACS Board of Directors.Rein V. Kirss received both a BS in chemistry and a BA in history as well as an MA in chemistry from SUNY Buffalo. He received his PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where the seeds for this textbook were undoubtedly planted. After two years of postdoctoral study at the University of Rochester, he spent a year at Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., before returning to academics at Northeastern University in 1989. He is an associate professor of chemistry with an active research interest in organometallic chemistry.Natalie Foster is emeritus professor of chemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She received a BS in chemistry from Muhlenberg College and MS, DA, and PhD degrees from Lehigh University. Her research interests included studying poly(vinyl alcohol) gels by NMR as part of a larger interest in porphyrins and phthalocyanines as candidate contrast enhancement agents for MRI. She taught both semesters of the introductory chemistry class to engineering, biology, and other nonchemistry majors and a spectral analysis course at the graduate level. She is the recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for distinguished teaching.

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Got this for a college class. It's a pretty textbook... textbook. Not really any surprises here- it's a book about chemistry, full of chemistry-related concepts and definitions with practice exercises to apply what you read in every chapter. Also included is access to an interactive eBook as well as registration for online tutorials and homework, something more and more textbooks seem to be doing lately. I highly recommend fully utilizing the online/digital supplements with this book, they are awesome at helping you work through things.

My son needed this for his Chemistry class. It came just as described.It's a good thing the book is pretty well laid out as my son's teacher doesn't teach chemistry so much as he rants about politics.

I thought the book would come not as good as the hardcover since I bought the paperback. Nonetheless, the paperback came in such a good condition, all the pages are intact and I am getting real use out of it. Thank You!

Not very well written for an entry-level chemistry book. I ended up just looking most difficult things up online (for free) because the book does such a poor job at explaining them. And the smartworks computer program is horrendous -- probably the worst designed homework software I've ever used.

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It met my expectations. For a book that I needed for just 2 months, the rent price, and the quick shipping saved me from wasting a lot of money, in my opinion, unnecessary.