- Hardcover: 800 pages
- Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company; 3 Har/Cdr edition (January 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0716736241
- ISBN-13: 978-0716736240
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 21.8 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #900,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good scope, difficult to read, many errors,
By Craig MACKINNON (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition W/CD [With CDROM] (Hardcover)
Perhaps I didn't pay as much attention to the 2nd edition, but it seems to me that this 3rd edition of Shriver and Atkins is not as well written and contains more errors than its predecessor. Or perhaps, the other author of the previous two editions, Cooper Langford, was the best writer of the three.First, the good points. I chose this book as the text for my 3rd year inorganic courses because of the scope. No other textbook out there covers the same breadth of material. Meissler/Tarr and Cotton/Wilkinson both suffer from too heavy an emphasis on metal-based chemistry, which doesn't help those of us teaching 2 half-courses in inorganic chemistry - one on the main group, one on transition metals. The material has been kept current with examples from the (relatively) recent literature, something other texts do not do well. Now for the bad. Atkin's books are usually difficult to read, but at least they are rigourous and complete (e.g., his Physical Chemistry, which I find an invaluable reference). Unfortunately, in this book he does not improve his prose, and the thoroughness is lacking, as well as the profusion of errors make it difficult and confusing for the student. What does this all mean? Someone needs to write an inorganic text that is exactly this book, except better written. I will continue to use this text, but I will continue to check all the other new ones in the hope of finding a better one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book,
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This review is from: Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition W/CD [With CDROM] (Hardcover)
I love this book. It is well written and full of figures, very instructive. The companion CD is very helpful. Nice the section on the Molecular Structure and Bonding. Helpful the Formula Index too. I think this book is one of the best on the Inorganic Chemistry subject. I have many other books written by P.W.Atkins: all excellent books. Thanks Prof. Atkins.
1.0 out of 5 stars
errors, errors, errors,,
By A Customer
This review is from: Inorganic Chemistry, Third Edition W/CD [With CDROM] (Hardcover)
The Preface of the THIRD edition (1999) states " We have taken particular care to ensure that the text is free of errors". If this isn't misleading, I don't know what is. The books is loaded with errors, misprints, and poorly worded sentenses. Many of the imperfections are carried over from the previous edition but new ones also appear. No students should be required to buy this book until a clean second printing is available.The second edition (1999) of Miessler and Tarr contains errors but at least the solutions manual comes with a list of "the corrections that are most important for student use of the text".
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