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Not helpful for a student	Customer Rating:
My professor required this book to give us just the bones of chemistry and to save us money. For the student it is way too short with descriptions and barely any explanations which make it very hard to understand. This is a frustrating book and it results in a frantic student looking for a good tutor. If you are a teacher/professor, please do not try to do your students any favors with this book.

Good Book, Great Price

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As far as the material goes, this book is well written. It's easy to read and easy to follow, and full of diagrams and pictures that not only relate to the subject matter, they also break up the text and give your mind a bit of a break from straight reading. But let's be honest... if you're buying this book, you're most likely a college student buying it because you have to, so what you care about is saving money. In that respect, I paid about $100 for this book NEW from amazon when my book store wanted $140 for it USED!! So it doesn't take stoichiometry to figure out that this was a GREAT buy!! (Yeah, lame chemistry joke...lol)

Not for serious Chemistry Students!

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This book is about 1/4 the size of the average Intro/Freshman Chem class, and so is about 1/4 of the information. This book does a DECENT job on BASIC principles of chemistry, but like has been said before, a good chemistry professor might aid in the understanding these principles. If using this book for a Freshman Chemistry class with the intent to move to Organic Chemistry, you might be in a tad bit of trouble. In short: Too short, little detail. Seems elementary compared to most chemistry books

Absolutely terrible	Customer Rating:
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.

So-so

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A bit too complicated for a General Chemistry text, yet it still fails to touch on certain important aspects (steric numbers, among others). The practice problems at the end of each chapter are highly abstract, but may be viewed as somewhat useful when compared to the extremely wordy and complicated study guide. College students studying Chemistry for the first time, especially older non-traditional students, will find the authors' approach to several concepts to be unnecessarily complex. This text is far more useful when accompanied by a study guide such as Houk's Chemistry: Concepts and Problems, A Self-Teaching Guide. The text's study guide is fairly useless unless the instructor pulls tests from the publisher's web suite.