Chemistry Books

I've been working on geochemistry and hydro-geochemistry for the last three years and this book represent an "easy-to-follow" compendium of the most usual problems and situations that you can find on field. The author's explanations to some problems are quite ingenious and help to solve, in a practical way, most of the difficulties that you can find in real natural systems.

The authors have managed to take a subject that can be dry and intimidating and make it readable and enjoyable. I have been in the consulting business as a hydrogeologist for 20 years, and found that I needed to review "the basics" due to a career change to Water Resources. I found the book to be well organized, well written, and especially useful were all of the examples provided. I think it would be a very good book for students (those just starting out) and for those, like me, who need to review subjects, such as "aquifer hydraulics." And, the chapter "How to Get Along with Driller's" should be mandatory reading for all students of geology/hydrogeology/engineering.

Greating readers. I have a PDF files that contains all of the corrections or errors know as of Nov 10, 2003. Please email for a copy of this document at wweight@mtech.edu. Happy Reading. Willis Weight

This book should be required reading by every professional entering the field of hydrogeology - especially those with limited experience in groundwater science. the authors present the material in an easy to read format as though they were mentoring entry level geologists. A job well done.

I've been working as a geologist for an environmental firm specializing in UST remediation for about six months. Having been working in a tangentally related field for six years, I needed a quick refresher. This book is providing that refresher - it will also prove an excellent reference for years to come. I found especially useful the portion on slug testing - my old college texts discuss slug testing but in a highly theoretical and impractical manner.

This book does it all. Any problems you have Crank has got you. Don't read it without knowing transport though, he solves mad prolems but that's really it. No insight or anything like that. Who cares he does MAD problems

This text is a great resource for understanding diffusion. It is accessible to your average scientist (my background is soil science), but you will have to do some work if your not a mathematician. Don't let that stop you though, this is THE text on diffusion maths. It's an invaluable tool.

Crank's Mathematics of diffusion is a comprehensive summary of solutions to several diffusion related problems. The insights offered are clear and logical, mathematics is at a level that anyone with a college level understanding of calculus (and differential equations) can comprehend and appreciate. The book is particularly useful for researchers and experimentalists who wish to design measurements to understand diffusion behavior into pratically realizable substrates. Time dependent, concentration dependent and temperature dependent effects are included and non-Fickian behavior is discussed. Moving boundaries, sorption and problems involving diffusion in heterogeneous media are also described. Of course, the discussions are neither exhaustive nor recent results feature in the book, for which one must look on his own. This is more like a basic text, and must be used likewise.

The book does not discuss mass transfer under convective flow conditions, and does not incorporate discussion of experimental methods used to measure concentration gradients. Yet it is an essential text to compare many observed concentration profiles to the known solutions plotted in the book. Mass Transfer by Hines and Maddox can be used as supplement for looking at chemical engineering type mass transfer problems. For anyone familiar with an excellent text by Carslaw and Jaegar on the Conduction of heat in solids, Crank's text provides a nice mapping of heat transfer problems discussed in that book to diffusion related problems. The mathematics of diffusion, once mastered, is useful in understanding similar problems in heat problems, momentum transport etc. For everyone involved in studies involving diffusion, Crank's treatise is a must have, must read book.

This book is a classic, collecting analytical solutions to common differential equations arising from common problems in mass transport.

This classic diffusion text continues where many other texts end, and covers a broad variety of problem types. This is an excellent resource for diffusion solutions for less-common boundary conditions and assumptions, including thorough mathematical developments of the solutions and many references to the original works. Non-mathematicians will often need to roll up their sleeves to digest portions of the derivations, but the insight into the solution processes is often very revealing. This makes this book an invaluable reference, although it is probably not well suited as your only book on diffusion.

Using the Profit Maximization Techniques developed by Walt Thrun will allow any production facility to calculate their maximum profit obtainable. Now there is no need to guess what your optimum product mix should be for your plant, what Capital Projects to implement, what your budget and forecast should be. This has the potential to revolutionize productivity as we measure it today. Let's quit getting better at doing the wrong things and start doing the right things.

As an engineer in a manufacturing environment I loved the book because it quantitatively expresses the contribution that engineers make to the bottom line. This book will definitely be popular with SME and AIIE. I have been fighting the standard cost battle for years, knowing that it didn't work, but not knowing exactly why or be able to offer an alternative. This book nails both of these issues down in succinct fashion. This book is a real winner!

Imagine having a tool that could make quantum leaps in company profitability with no added capital investment, cost reduction, or product price increases. It's about working smarter, not harder. It's about using existing manufacturing resources to make the most of the one resource every manufacturing operation shares: time. Within this text lies that tool, evidenced not only in my reading of the book, but in my application of its concepts. Like any tool, it will only be effective when the reader moves past reading the directions to putting the tool into action.

This easy-to-read book offers a refreshing new look at non-traditional methods to measure manufacturing performance in terms all decision makers can understand...profit! Armed with readily available computer tools, Walt Thrun confidently and logically assaults conventional thinking and methods in performance measurement and leads the reader to obvious conclusions about the relationship between constraints and profitability. Such measures as "overhead absorbtion, cost allocation and plant utilization" are replaced with "profit optimization, contribution maximation and return on investment". He demonstrates, in detail, how to quantitatively measure the impact of strategic decisions and manufacturing improvements on the bottom line. The concept that local optimization results in global optimization is effectively debunked. The concepts of this book are consistant with the body of knowledge described by the American Society for Quality for Quality Engineer and Quality Manager certification. This book is a "must read" for ASQ members and other quality professionals interested in quantifiable measurement of process improvements.

Walt's book brings together some important elements of Engineering Economy, Operations Research, and more recent works that stem from the The Goal and Theory of Constraints. However, Walt concentrates primarily on the strategic planning facet and leaves detailed scheduling and capacity analysis to other works. He uses "total contribution" and "total system ROI" as the criteria and introduces "integrative reasoning" as a philosophy to optimize product mix and evaluate a variety of tactical and strategic options. This philosophy is presented in a single, continuous case that extends through the entire book, becoming stronger as it flows from example to example and chapter to chapter. The progressive case study is a chain of tightly related examples which evaluate and rank strategies for product mix, productivity improvements, outsourcing, contract manufacturing, capital planning, budgeting, acquisitions, and multi-plant synergy.

After reading lots of of other current works and spending time on the job, one still may not learn the key lessons carried in this one book.

Although this book is now out of date (due to the release of the new book) it is full of information that is not normally included in the Nails textbooks. Additionally it explains everything in plain language. I incorporate this information from this text into my lectures at school since it helps the students to understand exactly what I am talking about.

Written for nail technician students, this is an easy to read and knowlegeable book. It describes how nails are formed and discusses types of products for natural and artificial nails. This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand his/her nails and be knowledgeable about selecting a nail technician and/or purchasing products. Most of the book is about nail enhancement products and application techniques. I would have liked more information about natural nail products with brand names mentioned and hope the author will be inclined to write another book devoted to this topic.

Thanks to Doug Schoon for writing such a truly useful and insightful book. I thought it would be hard to read, but I read it in one day. I just couldn't stop. I've read it again several times since. It was so exciting to finally have truthful answers to my questions. This book should be required reading for everyone in the professional salon industry. Mr. Schoon is a wonderfully talented writer who takes the time to explain things in everyday lanauge. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

As a nail technician, I want to know all about the chemicals I work with everyday. Mr. Schoon's book was simple to read, but even better, easy to understand. The book is non-product specific so it doesn't matter what product line a tech is suing now, or might use in the future.

Understanding the chemicals I use gives me a one-up advantage over others in my field.

Written by the world's leading expert on the subject, this book gives a simple, yet insightful look at fingernails and fingernail products. It teaches the basic science behind nail products and explains the importance of proper nail preparation and product application procedures, sanitation, as well as, useful information needed to understand and solve the many challenges facing modern nail technicans and salons. Chapter titles are; Fingernail Anatomy, Fingernail Growth and Function, Chemistry Simplied- the Basics, Adhesion and Adhesives, Nail Enhanecment Product Chemistry, Understanding Nail Enhancments Part 1 and Part 2, The Safe Salon, Keeping Skin Healthy, Improving Your Air Quality, Glossary of Terms. Without question, this is a MUST read for "anyone" interested in the fignernails and/or the professional nail salon industry or the products used to cometically enhance the fingernails. 180 pages

An excellent book on ionics in electrochemistry. Bockris and Reddy are great authorities on electrochmistry and have handled all the topics covered in this book very lucidly and superbly. A must reading for all electrochemists and others who are working in this area.

These authors have a great writing style. This is a subject matter that has a potential to be very, very dry but the authors have somehow made it enjoyable. If they get into hardcore calculations and derivations that you might be a little rusty on, they anticipate that (I assume from lots of students' feedback) and include appendixes at the end of each chapter so that you don't need to run off and find the corresponding chapter in one of your math/physics/chemistry textbooks. They also have a very useful nomenclature guide (in the first book only) in case you keep forgetting what certain symbols mean and what units they are in. The footnotes are great and keep things from getting too dry. Overall, I would definitely recommend these three books.

Note: Unless you have a fetish for hard covers, get the paperbacks; they're half the cost. When I bought these books from amazon.com, it was very confusing to figure out which books to get. Here are the ISBN's of each of the three books in the series. This will save you some headache:

Electrochemistry 1: Ionics
ISBN: 0306455552 (paperback)

Electrochemistry 2A: Fundamentals of Electrodics
ISBN: 0306461676 (paperback)

Electrochemistry 2B: Electrodics in Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, and Environmental Science
ISBN: 0306463253 (paperback)

The Modern Electrochemistry volumes are truly excellent textbooks and references for all aspects of electrochemistry.
Whether you're dealing with corrosion, electrolytic processes, batteries, or biochemistry, the electrochemistry is fully explained here. The authors go into a great deal of detail topics while maintaining a very familiar, easy-to-read tone. There are also plenty of interesting historical footnotes which serve to lighten the text.

These books are written for electrochemists interested in the chemical mechanisms behind electrochemical processes. Applications of these processes are treated very briefly. If you are more interested in real-world applications of these processes, other texts may serve you better.

The text comes in three volumes, which is problematic. It is difficult to find all three at most booksellers. Many online booksellers (including Amazon) don't distinguish between the volumes in their catalogs; I had to go by ISBN numbers to ensure I got the complete set. But it was well worth the trouble.

This book By Bockris and Reddy, is the best book you can hope to lay your hands, if you are looking for an good introduction and thorough description of the fundamentals. This is definetely one book, or rather two books which no library should be without, including libraries of graudate students. The style of the authors is extremely simple, and reading this book is like reading a story book. you would find it quite difficult to keep the book down once you have picked it up.

An absolutely fantastic book, though slightly on the costlier side.

This is the best of the best in photochemistry and photophysics textbooks. I borrowed and renewed this book for the whole period in my graduate school. In 04' I finally became an owner! It never fails me.

The author Prof. Turro is of little doubt the authority in today's photochemistry world. He was a familiar name in my PhD group since we covered the ground of photochemistry. His chemistry tree went back to Dr. Hammond, the giant of modern photochemistry and physical organic chemistry.

Dr. Turro is a great teacher. In 2001 (or 2002?) I was able to listen to one of his speeches in Florida. He has the great talent to deliver ideas to you, as often happens in great theoretical physicists. He delivers well in the book. It is very readable and informative.

He has great, great videos lecturing photochemistry. Use them together with this book. It will get you to quite a level in photochemistry.

The best in the business.

This book is mainly aimed at students who have no or little experience in the field of photochemistry, while having a background in physical chemistry.
The text is divided in two parts: in the first one you will find all the fundamental aspects that govern absorption and emission of light, radiationless transitions, energy transfer, and the experimental techniques used to study photochemical processes. The second part is devoted to organic photoreactions, divided in cathegories and presented thru meaningful examples.
All the topics are discussed in a very intuitive fashion: mathematical treatment of the phenomena is avoided alltogether, as are the computational tecniques used to explain the dynamics of the processes.

The text is always crystal-clear (the explanation of intersystem crossing is probably the best i've ever read). The broad range of topics covered make it a great starter, from which one can then move to more advanced/specialized (and painfully expensive...) texts.

If you are new to the subject, it surely is the best option available for the price.

I took a number of chem classes with Nick Turro and plain and simple, the man radiates brilliance. Modern Molecular Photochemistry has been the de facto standard for photochem since the 1960s and loses none of it's excellence today. Good book for any undergrad/grad doing Chem/ChemE-related work. Very useful, very relevant, and just plain excellent.

Excellent. My leisure reading as well as serious references

This is the first book to read on organic photophysics. Turro is a wonderful teacher; the introductory chapters of this book clearly explain basic concepts that other books skip entirely. I would particularly recommend this book to anyone who is new to the field and/or timid about physical chemistry, although it is certainly appropriate for more advanced students/professionals as well. The advanced reader can skip the first few chapters and still find plenty of useful reference material on energy transfer, photochemical reactions, spectroscopy, etc. There are other photochemistry textbooks available but the price makes this one the best value.

This book was recommended by Amazon for spectroscopy and after looking few pages it was a book what I was looking for, have not gone through the whole book but the initial pages suggests that it will be a useful reference for me working as a metrology engineer in semiconductors

The books reviews all the fundamental concepts on molecular spectroscopy. The chapter on quantum mechanics is well organized, and introduces the reader into the tools necessary for understanding the logic behind molecular spectroscopy. Simple, clear and easy to follow. The way the book is organized is also very good, from general/simple to specific/complex, so it's suitable for undergraduate students and all type of scientists.

This a great book about spectroscopy.
The balance between experiment method/data/figure and theory description is just so good that I got a lot of understanding
that I didn't get from other book.

Even if beginning with only an introductory understanding of quantum mechanics, this excellent book will allow you to understand most major branches of spectroscopy. The chapters are organized to include reasonable amounts of both theory and show real spectra to help use the theory in the context of real research. One of the earlier chapters includes a review/primer on group theory and the remaining chapters can be understood with the group theory presented in that chapter. This book is therefore suitable as a text and is also very usefull as a reference.

I used this book to supplement the ocean of Herzberg referenced in my lab class. It seems pretty complete and is clearly written. The examples are very helpful.

This is a classical book on the subject of molecular vibrations. People interested in molecular spectroscopy or Quantum Chemistry should read it. Excellent book!

It is probably the best book about molecular vibrations, cited in many other books.
It treats complex arguments with rigour but at the same time it is able to explain them clearly.

This is the original work by E.B.Wilson where the G and F matrix formalism is presented. The G matrix, related to kinetic vibrational energy is built uppon the elements of the B matrix defined from "internal coordinates". Many quantum chemistry software packages use this exact methodology to build normal coordinates. For those working on Quantum Chem Molecular Orbital calculations, this book is a must.

Reissue of original, which was published in 1955, in the pre-computer age. Solid QM description of vibrating polyatomic molecules, and their interaction with EM radiation. The authors exploit group theory (molecular symmetry) to reduce the calculational work as much as possible. Good introduction to the use of finite groups, e.g. how to exploit the hexagonal symmetry of the benzene molecule.

In this one, Wilson writes definitively, math/scientifically, and with sincerity of purpose. Don't get confused by the word 'theory.' There's as much math in here as Born and Wolf's P of O. The only diffenrence is Wilson's is much more algebra-based. The mathematics (i.e. isomorphs) is 'taught', without breaking the flow, and is not assumed that you know the stuff already--- or can find it somewhere else. This book stands out because there is more science in here than names of scientists, and his references are for real. I would also say it was unique because books with titles like 'Molecular Vibrations' are usually skipped over for titles like 'mechanics' or 'quantum theory.' Spectroscopy was a major advancement in science, and it is good to see it skillfully treated with enlightening clarity.

The book as a good introduction to the state of the art in analysing environmental data (measured concentrations) where some of the measurements are below a detection limit. It is written for the not-to-statistical user of methods in this field. Unfortunately, the description of the statistics is sometimes too limited to be able to do the calculations without some add from a computer program for these calculations.

This book should be owned, and read, by anyone and everyone who ever has to deal with environmental monitoring data. First take Dr. Helsel's course - he's a great teacher - and get this book.

The Introduction, concerning the Challenger disaster, is absolutely amazing: the consequences of inappropriate handling of data below detection limits can sometimes be spectacularly fatal. Dr. Helsel shows us why, and then shows us how to avoid repeating the kinds of mistakes that have plagued environmental data management for decades.

If you have not taken Helsel's courses, or read this book, you are almost undoubtedly making consistent and preventable errors in handling non-detects in your data.

This book provides an important bridge between the issue of non-detects commonly encountered in environmental data and survival analysis techniques. As a statistician working for an environmental firm I was frustrated with the lack of resources available in properly dealing with non-detects. EPA guidances provide some insight, but each of the methods fail only apply under special circumstances. Helsel has presented several options in dealing with non-detect data as well as the inadequacies and benefits of each method. My only complaint is that the effect of small sample sizes could be more comprehensively addressed. It would also be nice if some of the methods were demonstrated in R as well as in Minitab. Alas, we cannot have all that we want.

Anyone involved in the analysis of environmental data will benefit from this easy-to-follow book. Measurements of environmental data often contain "less than" values below the laboratory limit of detection. This book provides a sensible approach for analyzing this type of information and, importantly, informs the reader of the inadvertent bias that can result from some of the commonly used substitution methods (e.g, replacing non-detects with one-half the detection limit). In addition to his own original research, Dr. Helsel extensively surveyed the scientific literature in this area and provides enough detail to properly support the recommended procedures. This book covers the handling of non-detects in many areas, including univariate data analyses, time series, interval estimates, comparing two or more groups, correlation and regression. Another useful feature of this book are the MiniTab Statistical Software macros available from the practicalstats.com website. These macros allow non-statisticians to readily perform the described analyses without creating unique computer programs or complicated spreadsheets.

As an environmental scientist with a western state regulatory agency, I have followed the statistical and environmental journal literature in this area for many years. I recently incorporated many of the concepts from this book into regulatory requirements for coastal water quality standards.

The concentration of a chemical compound may be so low that it cannot be quantified by an analytical method. The result from a chemical analysis attempting to quantify such an analyte concentration is generally reported as a nondetect (ND), rather than as zero or not present, and the appropriate limit of detection is usually provided. In cases where measurement data are described as not detected, the concentration of the chemical is unknown, though its possible concentration ranges from zero to the sample-specific detection limit. Analytical testing results that are reported as nondetects (NDs) are encountered frequently in environmental work. The proper handling of such ND results has been discussed within the environmental community, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for many years.
The most common method of handling NDs is to substitute ½ the detection limit. This book shows that this method can lead to incorrect conclusions. Proper statistical approaches have been used in other scientific disciplines; these approaches required computing resources that were not readily available. Now, however, statistics software that can make the required calculations is available on personal computers.
This book fills a huge gap by providing proper statistical methods from the fields of medical and industrial research to the analysis of censored environmental data. Included are examples that can be computed using Minitab, a commercially-available statistics software package.
I have taken several courses taught by Dr. Helsel and have read and used the book. The book is well organized and provides many useful and informative examples. I have found the information to be extremely helpful in my work as an in-house environmental consultant working for a large manufacturing company.

This is the book I learned organic I from. When i tried to take organic II at a different school they used a different book, it was more confusing and poor at explaining things (solomons and fryhle). As a student, i think this is a great choice for a book, it was easy to use and the review problems were helpful (though you need the student answer guide).

This author seems to put complex concepts in terms you can easily understand. I am currently studying out of the McMurry organic chemistry book and find it much more vague.

I own several organic chemistry books: Organic Chemistry By Solomons and Fryle, this book (an older edition), Schaum's Organic chemistry, and Organic Chemistry as a second language. I think that this book lacks in the substitution and elimination reaction chapters. My teacher explained that wonderfully and if you get a good book that explains that well such as organic chemistry as a second language or have a good teacher then Ege's book will make more sense in the syntheses chapter. This book does a great job explaining mechanisms and expects you to know how to write them out unlike Solomons and Fryle who care more about products than how you got them. The summaries and concepts maps are great. The other problem I found with this book is that some of the problems are very advanced (as in graduate level) and she expects you to know things that are not covered in the book until later such as the names of certain organic molecules which are pertinent in solving the problem. This author does a great job explaining isomers, quantum mechanics, and includes topics from every branch of organic chemistry. The author explains thoroughly there is a lot to learn from each chapter but you will be well prepared for later classes.

Excellent organic chemistry textbook. Many mechanisms and coherent explanations of reactions. Problems throughout the book require a very thorough understanding of the material. Study guide very detailed and helpful.

Simply the best organic chemistry textbook I've seen. I own three organic chemistry texts, and this one is the most helpful, hands-down. Excellent summaries, clear and concise text, very illustrative examples. Comes with a Student Solutions Manual that contains answers to _every problem_ in the text. Fantastic. If you're having trouble learning Organic Chemistry, get this book.