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Summary: A very disappointing approach to Chemistry
Review: Kotz's Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity is a very disappointing textbooks. As a student using this textbook, I found myself highly confused due to the poor explinations as well as well as how unorganized the format of the book is. If it was not for the fact that I had taken Chemistry earlier I would not have understood half of the material that was taught to me by the book. I am highly disappointed in the textbook.
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Summary: terrible
Review: This book is awful. The calculations are off on many of the problems. The text is utterly confusing. The authors go way out of their way to confuse the heck out of the reader. There is "no" way one can learn the basic concepts of chemistry by reading this book alone without the help of teachers (and even teachers will get confused on how this book explains things). A waste of money and time this book is. Also, our teacher admitted to the students that this text has numerous mistakes/errors. Obviously not proofread for content. Another thing they do here (to make things more frustrating for you) is to use their own rounding (in many cases you'll be off by as much as 3-6 units which is alot) for their answers. These professors missed the boat on this book. If you want to read a great book on introductory Chemistry, skip this book and get the "Chemistry for Dummies" book. No fooling, that book is a thousand times better/informative than this piece of drivel. I guess it could be worse though if you had to use the "Modern University Chemistry" textbook by Norbert T. Porile. Don't believe that ***** review on that. That one is much worse than this one.For a class in college chemistry, ask your professor if you can skip buying this book and use the "Chemistry for Dummies" and the Internet resources (all kinds of goodies on the internet). I know that I did and did not need to refer to this text in the last 2 months of the class. Having a great teacher (like I did) also helps too.
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Summary: Poorly written
Review: This book is very poorly written and has a excessive typos and errors, especially in the answer section in the back - it's come to the point where if I get a different answer from the back of the book I usually assume it is the author who is wrong. It explains the concepts poorly, often over complicating them or leaving out vital pieces of information, or telling you about them a page after you really needed the information. It is not organized logically - we've ended up jumping around to different chapters to make it flow logically. Overall I'm not satisfied with this book on any level - I would have fired the person giving the go-ahead to print and distribute it if I'd been the publisher.
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Summary: It is a very good book
Review: ~For the first time I took the online class, chemistry, and we use this book as text book. It turns out that it is totally self-study. I have found this book is very well written and easy to follow. Basically I can understand everything after reading each chapter just once without any help from the instructor.
The book comes with 2 CDs. I used it very rarely. I don't think they are that helpful or informative.
You also can access this book companion site from the publisher website. It provides~~ two quizs per chapter. You can take it on-line. If you miss the question, it will tell you which part of text in the book you need to review/pay more attention. The quiz site is more useful than the CD.~
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