Foundation in chemistry

Chemistry (3rd edn)

Rob Lewis and Wynne Evans

Basingstoke: Palgrave 2006 | Pp464 | £22.99 | ISBN 0 230 00011 8

This book is one of the Foundation series  published by Palgrave. The series aims to provide complete yet concise coverage of core topics in a particular discipline, and this text does just that for chemistry by offering a generic course in chemical literacy for non-specialists.  

The authors have immediately grasped an important nettle with regard to the basic skills students need to succeed in their chemistry studies. Essentials such as numbers, units and measurement errors, and reporting measurements, are elegantly addressed in chapter one.