General Chemistry
Fourth Edition
Donald A. McQuarrie
University of California, Davis
Peter A. Rock
University of California, Davis
Ethan B. Gallogly
Santa Monica College
ATOMS FIRST ALL
THE WAY
ANOTHER GROUND-BREAKING TEXT BY MCQUARRIE
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"The many worked
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Chapman, Barnard College
"My students absolutely love this text. It's not encyclopedic, but a readable text. We covered 16 chapters in the first semester and they understand the material. Now we have the time to cover special topics."
-Richard
Squire, West Virginia University
“Atoms First seems to
be the flavor of the year in chemistry textbooks, but many of them seem to be
little more than rearrangement of the chapters. It takes a master like
McQuarrie to go back to the drawing board and create a logical development from
smallest to largest that makes sense to students."
-Hal Harris, University of Missouri-St Louis
"This book leaves
us wondering why we have waited so long to teach chemistry as a story, rather
than as an illogical sequence of concepts."
-Kim
Waldron, Regis University
"Because I
have long appreciated McQuarrie’s writing style and straightforward approach
in his classic Physical Chemistry text, I naturally jumped at the chance
to use his General Chemistry text in my classes. The new book does
not disappoint; McQuarrie’s elegant, yet step-by-step manner permeates the
text."
-Tom Kuntzleman, Spring Arbor
University
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book is extremely well-written, the order of topics is logical, and it does a great
job with both introductory material and more advanced concepts. Students
of all skill levels will be able to learn from this book."
-Mark
Kearley, Florida State University
"Just as McQuarrie led intimidated seniors through
the depths of physical chemistry, he now guides freshmen through the snares of
general chemistry in this brilliantly written text."
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"A good resource
for a first course in chemistry. Summing up: Recommended!"
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This Fourth Edition of
McQuarrie's classic text offers a thorough revision and a quantum-leap forward
from the previous edition. Taking an atoms first approach, it promises
to be another ground-breaking text in the tradition of McQuarrie's many
previous works. This outstanding new text, available in a soft cover
edition, offers professors a fresh choice and outstanding value.
Key Features
Guaranteed retail price for three years: $98.50.
No new edition for five years.
An authentic atoms
first approach -- not just a rearrangement of chapters.
An elegant, extremely readable and student friendly
soft-cover book, assuming only algebra.
Nearly one third of the book is comprised of problems and
worked out examples of the kind that make McQuarrie's books beloved by
faculty and students alike.
Updated
color illustrations, including micro to macro images to enhance
understanding, and molecular views of reactions.
Descriptive
chemistry is broken up into a series of short, brilliant
Interchapters,
all online, that can be covered readily or assigned as
reading.
Revised to incorporate SI
units and IUPAC conventions throughout.
Accompanying
customized Online Homework, using the most advanced online
system available to help students draw Lewis formulas, write and balance
chemical equations, produce orbital diagrams, interact with 3D molecules, and
much more, while sending professors feedback on student performance.
Ancillaries include a
Student Solutions Manual, an Instructor's Manual, and a CD of the book's
art, tables and equations, in addition to online homework. This
title is also available as a CourseSmart
eBook.
Arguably Donald McQuarrie's greatest contribution to
chemical education.
About the Authors
Donald McQuarrie's
name is synonymous with excellence in chemical education. As
the author of landmark chemistry books and textbooks, from his classic
text on Statistical Mechanics to his quantum-first tour de force
on Physical Chemistry, McQuarrie's best selling textbooks are highly
acclaimed by the chemistry community. McQuarrie received his PhD from the
University of Oregon, and is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Chemistry
at the University of California, Davis.
Ethan Gallogly, right, has
joined McQuarrie as co-author on this new edition. He earned his BS from the University of Connecticut and his PhD from the
University of California, Davis. Following
completion of his doctoral studies, Gallogly, who is bilingual, worked as a foreign expert in Mainland China. Afterward, he accepted a position at the University of
California at Berkeley as a Chemistry Lecturer and Laboratory Coordinator for
three years before joining the faculty of Santa Monica College in 1999.
Most recently, Gallogly has been awarded a sabbatical to research fuel cell
technology at Sichuan University.
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