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General Chemistry for Engineers (Revised printing of Prelimary edition) (2nd Edition)

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I thought this book was very good overall. I took Glanville's class and recognized early on that it was going to be difficult to combine two semesters of freshman chemistry into one. The book provided numerous helpful examples to help understand the materials presented and the chapters were logically organized. While there were a number of "boos" in the book as Glanville called them, I thought the writing style and examples were more helpful than most texts I used my first year at Virginia Tech.

As a engineering student at Virginia Tech, I was very disappointed in this text which was supposed to be "next generation" chemistry for engineers. The book is full of errors, some of which are posted on Dr. Glanville's (the author and my professor) website (http://www.chemistry.vt.edu/chem-dept/glanville/Boofile.pdf). There are many more errors that were pointed out during the semester by students, but for some reason not yet part of the "boofile."

The text is more qualitative than quantitative in nature and has left me feeling like I have wasted my time and money on it. No university professor in his or her right mind would adopt this text. There is also a site http://www.ratevtteachers.com from which you can do a search on 'Glanville' to see what other students think or thought of his text.