The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry, 2nd Edition,   ISBN:9781592575145

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It's a good book for mastering and improve your chemistry. It's a new book and fast shipping.

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This book is excellent on covering the material I am currently learning in high school. I'm not sure how helpful this will be to AP Chemistry students, but this will definitely help out students of regular chemistry. The book is very informative in a concise, and surprisingly, humorous way. It's extremely straightforward, which is a plus when you are trying to memorize key concepts without the excess ranting you sometimes find in textbooks. By the way, what takes 3 pages to explain in my textbook can be explained in 3 paragraphs in this guide. The greatest thing is that I have been able to score 93% and above on my tests (can't credit my teacher because he depends on the textbook to teach us). Use this guide and you'll be set for the rest of the year!

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I admit I was a bit insulted by the title, after I was refered to this book by a librarian. However I had went through at least five or six chemstry books before I found one that I could remotely understand. Ideally enough it follows the similair if not same pattern as my textbook.

I must applaud Ian Guch for a job well done on his ability to community the knowlege of chemistry into a language that the students can understand. As a struggling college student this book looks indeed to be a great help. He gives you simple visual ideas and relates them to common situations so you can get the "big picture." This was a big help for me as a visual learner.

Another plus about this book is that unlike most that I have gone through this one actually covers other branches of chemistry as well. So that was a huge plus, most (or at least the ones that I have read) books only covered chemistry basics.

The only issue I have is that the problems they give you do make you feel like an idiot. If the author were to add a bit more challenging problems this book would be "perfect."

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book as good as new, got in on time, and overall i was satisfied with the purchase and the delivery process

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I purchased this book to help with homework and I have found it to be very helpful. The book covers the basics of a high school chemistry course but unlike most textbooks or internet resources, it tries to break down and simplify chemistry to make it more manageable. For example, I was having a difficult time explaining Lewis Dot structures or even finding a good resource for understanding it on the web. The author did a very good job of simplifying the approach whereby the generation of these structures made sense. The periodic table that is included in the book is detachable and also helpful. I would have liked a few more problems and some additional pictures may have been helpful but it was an excellent resource especially when combined with a number of the fine websites and interactive periodic tables on the web. It certainly made my life easier helping with homework and recommend it.