Reviews

Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins

aefhir's review

informative

4.0

d6y's review against another edition

5.0

"People remember [chemistry] from their schooldays as a subject that was largely incomprehensible, fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly [...]". Yes, yup, absolutely, indeed.

"I want to encourage you to look anew at chemistry, through modern unprejudiced eyes". Perfect! I now feel like I have some rough idea of the key principles and practices of chemisry.

timsneath's review

4.0

Great, compact volume. I'm loving this series of short introductions that open me up to subjects I don't know as much about. The irony is that if you put all 400 together, you'd likely have a volume of content that is an appreciably large proportion of the Encyclopedia Britannica!

historyczna's review

4.0

Well, it definitely explained some concepts in a couple of sentences that took a whole paragraph in my textbook so I did like that. A few pictures would have been helpful and I could have probably done without the last couple of chapters but that's probably just me just wanting the facts and not the commentary since I read it to help me with my final. Overall, the book is just as it claims to be: A very short introduction to the world of chemistry. I kind of wish I read it at the beginning of the semester as opposed to now though