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A new third edition of John R. Taylor’s best-selling text that features Bayesian statistics and updated new chapter-ending problems throughout.

A new third edition of John R. Taylor’s best-selling text that features Bayesian statistics and updated new chapter-ending problems throughout.

John Straub’s new text is an excellent choice for a one-semester course on mathematical methods, as a supplement for courses in physical chemistry, or as a self-study guide.

This is the authorized Student Solutions Manual for John R. Taylor’s internationally best-selling textbook, Classical Mechanics.

Foundations
of Inorganic Chemistry by Gary
Wulfsberg is our newest entry into the field of Inorganic Chemistry textbooks,
designed uniquely for a one-semester stand alone course, or to be used in a full year inorganic sequence.

College Physics: Putting It All Together
is an algebra-based physics text designed for the first year, non-calculus
college course.

This book will revolutionize the way
physical chemistry is taught by bridging the gap between the traditional
"solve a bunch of equations for a very simple model" approach and
the computational methods that are used to solve research problems.

This vibrant book takes the
reader on an exciting journey through much of physical sciences by explaining
the wide ranging influence of a single equation, the Boltzmann factor.

With nearly 400 original illustrations, this NMR primer provides an introduction to solution NMR spectroscopy at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and working scientists with backgrounds in chemistry or biochemistry.

Featuring excellent illustrations and homework problems throughout, the book is intended both for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who are learning the subject for the first time, as well as for those who have practical experience but seek a text summarizing the theory of diffraction and X-ray crystallography.

This book is a readable and
comprehensive account of the physics that has developed over the last hundred
years and led to today’s ubiquitous technology.  The authors lead the reader through relativity, quantum mechanics, and the most
important applications of both of these fascinating theories.

This
book provides a rich, historical approach to introductory
astronomy. It is ideal for use in an introductory astronomy
course for nonmajors.

A
General Relativity Workbook is a
textbook intended to support a one-semester upper division undergraduate
course on general relativity.

This book offers explanatory material,
supplemental information, and detailed descriptions used to produce The Astronomical Almanac, an annual publication prepared jointly by the US Naval Observatory and Her
Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office in the UK. 

This remarkable book charts the step-by-step evolution of
vertebrate blood coagulation. Intended for readers with a background in
biological science, it is specifically targeted for those in the field of
molecular evolution and researchers in the area of blood clotting.

This book lays
out the foundations of quantum mechanics through the physics of intrinsic
spin, and is written to serve as the primary textbook for an upper-division
course in quantum mechanics.

This completely revised third edition of this intermediate-level text uses concise, straightforward language and an accessible narrative style to give a concise, clear account of today’s environmental issues and the science one needs to understand them.

This text provides detailed coverage of physical methods used in bioinorganic chemistry, and aims to provide a fundamental understanding of each method and demonstrate how data obtained from a system of bioinorganic interest can be interpreted.

Presented in two volumes, The Physics of Astrophysics is ideally suited for a year-long astrophysics course for university seniors and first-year graduate students.

This book provides a thorough and authoritative coverage of the fundamentals of organometallic
chemistry, the elementary reactions of these complexes, and many catalytic
processes occurring through organometallic intermediates. 

This book comprises all of the same
introductory chapters that make up Principles of Molecular
Photochemistry, but then goes on to provide additional chapters that
cover the methods for determining the mechanisms of organic
photoreactions.

This brilliantly innovative textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications

This title is written for organic chemists and offers an easy entry into the field of organotransition metal chemistry without requiring a background in inorganic chemistry.

Written in an clear and informal style, this text explores the most accessible of the 20th century revolutions in physics. It allows readers to build up physical intuition for what is going on, before presenting concise mathematical descriptions. It contains many applications, ten appendices, and numerous illustrations, examples and problems.

Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction develops photochemical and photophysical concepts from a small set of familiar principles.

This book
describes the essential aspects of enantioselective catalysis in a clear,
logical fashion, with chapters organized by concept rather than by reaction
type.

This book offers an advanced
introduction to the increasingly robust fields of extrasolar planets and
astrobiology.

This text is meant for
undergraduate and even graduate chemistry students who need a quick review of
the mathematical methods that are used throughout chemistry.  

Starting with just a few basic principles of probability
and the distribution of energy, this book takes students (and faculty!) on an
adventure into the inner workings of the molecular world like no other.

The rhyming tales
of the tiny beasties in the germ parade with which Nobel laureate
Arthur Kornberg  regaled his children and grandchildren are now available for all in this beautifully
rendered children’s picture book.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics is a completely original manifesto, covering quantum mechanics
from a time-dependent perspective in a unified way from beginning to end. This text will change the way people think about and teach
about quantum mechanics in chemistry and physics departments.

Quantum Chemistry 2e offers students a superb introduction to quantum mechanics and its application to chemistry.

After a brief introductory review of the
basic thermodynamic foundations, the book covers three core areas of physical
chemistry — quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, and kinetics.

This book is a graduate-level text covering the fundamental physics and chemistry required for a modern understanding of the interstellar medium.

Organized and edited by Ivano Bertini, Harry Gray, Ed Stiefel, and Joan Valentine, with contributions from many other world leaders in the field, this all-new book is equally appropriate for graduate or senior undergraduate courses in bioinorganic chemistry.

This book’s mechanistic approach constructs organic
chemistry from the ground up; by
focusing on the points of reactivities in organic, this text allows students to
approach more and more complex molecules with enhanced understanding.

Astrophysics of Gaseous
Nebulae and Active Galactic
Nuclei, second edition, is a graduate-level text and reference book on gaseous nebulae,
nova and supernova remnants.  It will be
valuable to anyone seriously interested in astrophysics.

In addition
to covering thoroughly the core areas of physical organic chemistry –
structure and mechanism – this book will escort
the practitioner of organic chemistry into a field that has been thoroughly
updated.

 This book is written so that
a reader who is only vaguely aware of 3D climate models will be able to gain an
understanding of what the models are attempting to simulate, how the models
are constructed, what the models have succeeded in simulating, and how the
models are being used.

DNA Replication, second edition, a classic of modern
science, is now back in print in a paperback edition. Kornberg and Baker’s
insightful coverage of DNA replication and related cellular processes have made
this the standard reference in the field.

This new text examines the
biophysics and biochemistry of nucleic acids and proteins, carving out
the dynamic interface between chemistry and molecular biology, and providing a
detailed picture of nucleic acids and proteins, their structures, biological
properties, and origins and evolution.

Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences has been optimized for a one-semester introductory course in physical chemistry for students of biosciences.

Classical
Mechanics is intended for students who have studied some mechanics in an
introductory physics course.
With unusual clarity, the book covers most of the topics normally found in books at this level.

Intended for
upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry, physics, math and
engineering, this book will also become a must-have for the personal library of all
advanced students in the physical sciences. McQuarrie has crafted yet another tour de force.

This book provides a unified treatment of seismological methods that will be of use to advanced students, seismologists, and scientists and engineers working in all areas of seismology.

Ramón Piñón’s textbook is the
most up-to-date and useful introduction to human reproductive
biology available. This book, developed from the author’s course
notes at UC San Diego, is designed as an introductory text for
non-science majors.

This book presents astronomy from the standpoint of estimating the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and the possibilities of finding it. It covers the fundamentals of astronomy, origins and evolution of life on Earth, the formation and present state of the sun’s family of planets, and the limitations on interstellar travel and communication.

This
remarkable little book connects observations from our everyday lives to the
scientific principles that explain them, whether you are interested in organic
produce, irradiated foods, trans fats, natural herbs,
designer drugs, cancer, DNA
testing, global warming, or many other subjects. 

This book uses real problems in environmental science
rather than relying on the more traditional "cookbook" problems found
in textbooks.

The primary purpose of this book is to help you
understand what is going on in Fourier Transform (FT) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR) spectroscopy.

Statistical Mechanics is a renowned and accessible introduction to the subject, containing a large number of chapter-ending problems for students.

Physical Chemistry for the Chemical and Biological Sciences is an ideal choice for classes geared toward pre-medical and life sciences students.

This book presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the
structures and physical chemistry properties of nucleic acids,
with special emphasis on biological function.

Wulfsberg’s new Inorganic
Chemistry is ideal for use as the primary textbook in the
junior-, senior- and introductory graduate-level sequence of
inorganic chemistry courses.

This well-known laboratory manual introduces students to modern synthetic and instrumental techniques currently used in inorganic chemistry.

Evolved from McQuarrie and Simon’s best-selling
textbook, Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach, this
text focuses in on the thermodynamics portion of the course.

Contains both the full statements and the complete solutions to every one of the more than 800 problems in Molecular Thermodynamics.

Like its previous five editions, this book is ideally suited for use in a sophomore-level laboratory course in organic chemistry.

This introductory module explores the structure/solubility relationships of organic compounds, explains how to extract pesticide residues from fruits and vegetables, analyzes the extract for pesticide content using gas chromatography, and uses the data collected as a basis for discussion about the issues surrounding pesticide regulation.

This introductory laboratory
manual will help students design a sampling plan, understand the
instrumental and analytical techniques used for the assessment of
water quality, learn how to interpret data and use statistical
analyses, and apply scientific reasoning to an environmental
problem.

As the first modern physical chemistry textbook to cover quantum mechanics before thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a contemporary approach to the study of physical chemistry

Earth from Above provides an easy
introduction to understanding and interpreting satellite images, using
illustrative examples to instruct on the fantastically informative new global
data sets..

This integrated collection of case studies examines in detail
how genes operate in systems. It can be used separately or as a
companion volume to Genes and Genomes.

Volume I covers essential aspects of molecular structure,
followed by an introduction to the techniques of physical organic
chemistry and a survey of the broad classes of reactions. The book includes problems and practice
exams with answers given in the book.

In this book Arthur Kornberg,
Nobel laureate, chronicles the saga of a small biotech start-up; the key players,
the painstaking development of the perfect product, and the
forces affecting its resulting success or failure.

Drawing on the Japanese art of
paperfolding, the book provides rip-out patterns for 124
molecules, along with easy instructions for folding them into
scale models, many of which are three-dimensional. This is a fun, hands-on guide to understanding the basic
structure and chemistry of matter.

This book is perfect for science teachers who want to bring
one of the most remarkable research tools of the 20th century
into their classrooms: the laser. Requiring only a low-cost,
low-power laser, the book
presents a series of experiments for in-class demonstrations or
student activities.

This book is an ideal primer for those who wish to improve their scientific
literacy. Beautifully written, it is especially
recommended for high school and undergraduate nonmajor science
courses.

This book provides a complete introduction to atomic and
molecular structure and bonding for science students and is by a
world-renowned chemist and award-winning chemistry teacher.

A concepts-orientated introduction to bioinorganic chemistry covering topics including: properties of biological molecules; physical methods in bioinorganic chemistry; control and utilization of metal ion concentrations in cells, and electron transfer proteins.

This is the only text currently available organized by class of compound and by property or reaction type, not group by group or element by element – which requires students to memorize isolated facts.

This textbook includes numerous questions and problems
at the end of each chapter and an Appendix with answers to most
of the problems. It is designed for use in inorganic, physical, and quantum chemistry
courses.

An in-depth overview of the molecular
structures and mechanisms that underlie the utilization of
genetic information by complex organisms. This excellent text
emphasizes the experimental aspects of molecular genetics and is
the first text to offer a complete introduction to both
principles and methods.

This book offers a variety of exciting techniques for approaching contemporary environmental problems, such as ‘What was the pH of rainfall before the Industrial Revolution?’

Lasers gives a complete, detailed, and accurate
treatment of laser physics, building only on classical models,
without requiring the reader to have a quantum mechanical
background. It is for all scientists and engineers who work with
lasers.

“This is a truly astonishing book, invaluable for anyone with an interest in astronomy and surely the bargain of the year.”
—Physics Bulletin

“Just the thing for a first year university science course.”
—Nature

“This is a beautiful book in both concept and execution.”
—Sky & Telescope