General Chemistry [Hardcover]

Darrell D. Ebbing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1987

Known for its carefully developed, thoroughly integrated approach to problem solving, this market-leading text emphasizes the conceptual understanding and visualization skills essential for first-year chemistry and science majors. The new technology program reinforces the approach of the text and provides a complete solution for teaching and learning.

The Eighth Edition retains the hallmark pedagogical features of the text and builds upon the conceptual focus and art program. Students also benefit from online homework in the technology program, which features an extensive database of questions drawn from the text.In order to reinforce major chemical concepts, the authors present a proven six-part approach to problem solving that includes "Example, Problem Strategy, Solution, Answer Check, Exercise," and corresponding "End-of-Chapter Problems," many of which are presented in matched pairs.The Media Integration Guide for Instructors includes several user-friendly supplements designed to make class preparation, presentation, and course management more efficient and effective: HM ClassPrep/HM Testing CD-ROM; HM ClassPresent CD-ROM with animations; instructor web site access; and information about Eduspace (powered by Blackboard). Eduspace is Houghton Mifflin's online learning tool. Powered by Blackboard, Eduspace is a customizable, powerful and interactive platform that provides instructors with text-specific online courses and content. This Ebbing et al. "General Chemistry" course features test bank material for exams, algorithmic in chapter and dynamically generated end-of-chapter homework problems from question pools and access to ACE quiz content for independent practice. For theinstructor, we also provide presentation slides, photos, illustrations, interactive tables and video clips. The Media Guide for Students provides information on and access to multimedia tools that help students visualize chemical concepts and practice problem-solving strategies: SMARTHINKING live online tutoring, student web site with animations, and Student CD-ROM. The guide also includes information about Eduspace (powered by Blackboard).

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH); 2nd edition (December 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395356547
• ISBN-13: 978-0395356548
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,396,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Evaluation of Ebbing/Gammon General Chemistry Textbook, August 22, 2000

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Sliderulex (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: General Chemistry (Hardcover)

I am majoring in Biochemistry and we use this textbook for 1st year General Chemistry. I am not completely satisfied with it because I would have liked to see MORE examples of worked-out-problems in the text. It does have nice pictures showing what the text is teaching and it does have lots of problems at the end of each chapter for students to work on. However, I would have liked to see more examples of solved problems because there needs to be this to aid the student of Chemistry learn the subject better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Chemistry is not THIS boring!, March 12, 2006

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Ciro Trubiano (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: General Chemistry [With CDROM] (Hardcover)

I am currently using this book as a first-year biology major, taking the average bio major's chem class. I have found this book to be poorly written and often unclear. I have found several mathematical and theoretical mistakes among the problems of the book, and as other reviewers have mentioned, it is very simplified and does not encompass more than the basic attributes and applications to whatever laws and theories it covers. The worst thing about this book is the fact that it is just an absolute pain to read. Chemistry is not as boring as this book makes it out to be. This text is not engaging at all. With all of the Chem texts I've seen in my professor's office, I wonder what made her choose this awful one to require for the class (thankfully, after thumbing through another one of her texts and commenting on how interesting it made everything, she said I could have it).

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Seems more appropriate for high schoolers., November 18, 2005

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Joe (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: General Chemistry (Hardcover)

I'm a junior chemistry major, and we used this book in our General Chemistry I and II course. I must say, this book is awful. The problems in the back of the book are extremely easy and only cover the basics of each section. For instance, in Chapter 17, on acid-base equilibrium, the book only covers how to do a handful of types of acid-base equilibria problems, when there are tons of different types. For me, it was absolutely useless to even look at the book because the problems were so simplified and all exactly the same.

If your class suggests this book, I'd recommend purchasing another book because unless your professor is really easy, you'll be pretty screwed over trying to learn anything from this piece of trash.