Survival Guide for General, Organic, and Biochemistry: With Math Review

by Richard Morrison, Charles H. Atwood, Joel Caughran

Available free in a package with any Cengage Learning chemistry text or available for separate purchase at cengagebrain.com, this straightforward, thorough SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR GENERAL, ORGANIC AND... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0495554693
• ISBN13: 9780495554691
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Good elementary review text for chemistry (General, Organic, and Biochemistry)

The soft bound book by Morrison, Atwood, and Caughran is a recent publication, copyrighted in 2008. I am a professor in a fisheries and aquatic science university department who is looking who is looking for a text to use in a fundamental biochemistry and cell biology class for students who are come from environmental science departments, i.e., non-health science majors. This book has 17 chapters beginning with description of the metric system, significant figures, density and heat transfer; inorganic chemistry principles; nuclear chemistry (radiation); chemical reactions and stoichiometry; states of matter and colligative properties; acids and bases; organic chemistry nomenclature; substitution, addition, elimination reactions; O/R reactions; carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and enzymes; nucleotides and nucleic acids; and a math review for the final chapter. All of these topics are packed into 176 pages. So while the text will unlikely serve as a primary text for a specific course in chemistry or biochemistry, it would be a good supplement for an undergraduate course that expects students to have some knowledge about a variety of chemistry topics. The book is not expensive so is worth the price for undergraduate students who many need to quickly review, brush up, or "survive" a variety of fundamental concepts and topics.