Chemistry
A Very Short Introduction
$23.17
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2015
Summary
Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point, except for the most introverted, in coming to terms with its grubby concepts, spells, recipes, and rules. Peter Atkins wants to change all that.
In this Very Short Introduction to Chemistry, he encourages us to look at chemistry anew, through a chemis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199683970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199683972 |
| Author: | Peter Atkins |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 114mm x 174mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Critics Review
Review from previous edition Atkins wins his readers' attention simply through an elegant and lucid description of the subject he loves.'Nature[T]he result is pretty much unimprovable. Recommending that every chemistry student in the world read a book by Peter Atkins feels a bit like recommending that everyone buy their books from Amazon. But what can you do? If this book had existed when I was an undergraduate, I’d have benefited tremendously. Now you can.‘Philip Ball, Nature Chemistry`This is an excellent presentation, especially for laypeople and high school students or for a ‘chemistry for poets’ course. Highly recommended.‘R. E. Buntrock, Choice,
Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins is the author of about 70 books, including the world-renowned and widely used Physical Chemistry, now in its 10th edition. He won the Grady-Stack award for science journalism in 2016. After graduating from the University of Leicester and a post-doctoral year in the University of California, Los Angeles, he returned to Oxford in 1965 as Fellow of Lincoln College and University Lecturer (later Professor) in physical chemistry. He retired in 2007, but continues to write and lecture worldwide.
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