Endorsements
"The text is compelling and readable. It makes a case for the importance of the study of chemistry and sells the subject to the students. The descriptive aspects of the text serve to justify the curriculum and give the students a sense of the role of chemistry within science and technology and the impact of chemistry on society and everyday life."
—Kevin Cantrell, University of Portland (OR)
"The text has an innovative approach to the traditional general chemistry concepts that should captivate even the most disinterested student in your class."
—Linda Zarzana, American River College
"I loved the figures in the text. I think they really brought the concepts to life."
—Sally Welch, Marygrove College
"I appreciate the authors’ writing style. It is well organized and flows easily so that students can follow the logic and connections of materials discussed."
—Stuart Burris, Belmont University
"The authors did an excellent job with the paired sample and practice exercises. I liked how they developed the problems and worked through them. I think that is almost more important than the text material. I also think that they did a great job connecting the text to the problem, and that they have attempted to ask conceptual questions that require students to integrate or apply topics to determine if they really understand the concepts. This will give the students a chance to think and use what they have learned already in the text."
—Sally Welch, Marygrove College
"As the nature of chemical knowledge grows in interdisciplinary complexity, this type of explicit reminder of the ’big picture’ will become ever increasingly important."
—Jeff Coffer, Texas Christian University
"The authors do an excellent job of guiding the thought process of the reader. Often the sample problems worked out for the students in [other] texts are too simple to be useful to them, and this text does not fall into this trap."
—Jeff Coffer, Texas Christian University
"I appreciated the connections icons. I think they add a significant feature to the textbook by overtly demonstrating the utility of concepts in one chapter for understanding concepts in another. In my experience, students tend to want to compartmentalize the many topics that they cover in first-year chemistry. These connections icons help emphasize the overall picture."
—Andrew J. Vreugdenhil, Trent Universit
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