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by: Dennis D. Staley, Michael S. Matta, Edward L. Waterman
Amazon.com's Price: $97.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 540
EAN: 9780131152625
ISBN: 0131152629
Label: Pearson Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Pearson Prentice Hall
Number Of Pages: 826
Publication Date: August 06, 2004
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 79387
Studio: Pearson Prentice Hall
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Rating:  - My highschool textbook
This book is a good study aid if you have a good instructor. However, depending on this book to teach you chemistry may become a little confusing (as my high school teacher is currently doing). I noticed that it's not very straightforward. Say you were learning about radiation - the types of radiation and how decay occurs. The text itself won't tell you exactly how the mass or atomic number changes after a certain radioactive decay. Rather, it provides you with assessment questions at the end of ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Buy
I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that this experience was worth it. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in purchasing good quality books at extremely reasonable prices.
Buy with confidence, I did!
Rating:  - Terrible introductory text
Good thing my teacher was so good because this book is terrible.
The explanations are lacking in important areas and overdone in others. It spends like 2 pages on VSEPR theory, incomplete activity series and solubility rules, and terrible intro in stoichiometry. We only did 15 chapters, but this book didn't help at all. I didn't even read half of it because the problems offer no challenge whatsoever. Not enough application problems. The end of section review Qs only ask for definitions ... Read More
Rating: - An overall Disappointment
This book was largely a disappointment. I had heard previously that this was the leading high school text that is used and had high expectations. I was disappointed to find a plethora of type errors (including math mistakes!) and also very poor descriptions of things like bonding theory, equilibrium constants, reaction rates etc. The book covers a lot but fails to get real advanced in much of anything. I would reccomend for the advanced high school student a college level text with a good teacher instead ... Read More
Rating: - Not too good for self-study
I'm an 8th grader that wants to learn chemistry very badly, and bought this book.
Most of the book provides an adequate explanation for all the essential concepts encountered in a regular high school course. I know this because after reading this book, I looked at the state tests for a high school chemistry course, and I could do most of the problems. There are many examples in the book that help a student understand what the text is trying to explain. There are also a lot of practice problems ... Read More
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