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Book & Media Reviews
JCE's book and media reviews provide informative, timely reviews of a wide range of textbooks and supportive material that are directly applicable to the chemistry classroom and laboratory. Collected here are reviews for materials likely to be of interest to the high school educator.

This page lists Book and Media Reviews published in 2009.

1998-2008 Book Reviews

2009 (Vol. 86)

Write Like a Chemist: A Guide and Resource by Marin S. Robinson, Fredericka L. Stoller, Molly S. Costanza-Robinson, and James K. Jones; reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac; p170 (Feb).

Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research edited by Diane M. Bunce and Renée S. Cole; reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac; p171 (Feb).

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry by Patrick Coffey; reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac; p305 (Mar).

Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards: Models for Meaningful Learning in the High School Chemistry Classroom, 2nd Edition edited by Stacey Lowery Bretz; reviewed by Brittland K. DeKorver; p435 (Apr).

Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right by Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Tamara Wilder; reviewed by Wheeler Conover; p437 (Apr).

Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism by Daniel S. Greenberg; reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac; p568 (May).

Introduction to Hydrogen Technology by Roman J. Press, K. S. V. Santhanam, Massoud J. Miri, Alla V. Bailey, and Gerald A. Takacs; reviewed by George B. Kauffman; p569 (May).

Electronic Homework Management Systems: Reviews of Popular Systems:

ARIS (Assessment, Review, and Instruction System) published by McGraw-Hill; reviewed by Steven Rowley; p691 (Jun).

WileyPLUS with CATALYST developed by Patrick Wegner; published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; reviewed by Ningfeng Zhao; p692 (Jun).

Mastering Chemistry published by Pearson/Prentice Hall; reviewed by Tricia D. Shepherd; p694 (Jun).

OWL (Online Web-Based Learning) published by Cengage-Brooks/Cole; reviewed by Jeffrey A. Evans; p695 (Jun).

SmartWork published by W. W. Norton; reviewed by Rebecca S. Miller; p697 (Jun).

WebAssign published by WebAssign; reviewed by Susan M. Hendrickson; p698 (Jun).

Chemistry and Art: Further Adventures of a Chemist Collector by Alfred Bader; reviewed by Mary Virginia Orna; p811 (Jul).

Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws, and Theories, Second Edition by Robert E. Krebs; reviewed by Adam M. Kiefer and Kevin Drace; p1034 (Sep).

Holy Holmium! Complete General Chemistry in 150 Pages. (For High School, Business, and Life, with Solved Exam Problems and a Money-Back Guarantee) by Billy Adam Gottlieb; reviewed by Michael S. Matthews; p1035 (Sep).

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense with Seven Simulated Games, Expanded Edition by Arieh Ben-Naim; reviewed by Harold H. Harris; p1037 (Sep).

Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein; reviewed by Luis D. Montes; p1180 (Oct).

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner; reviewed by Cheryl Baldwin Frech; p1181 (Oct).

The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide by Richard L. Myers; reviewed by Les Pesterfield; p1182 (Oct).

Secularism and Science in the 21st Century edited by Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin; reviewed by Kenneth H. Brown; p1272 (Nov).

Chemistry, 8th Edition by Stephen S. Zumdahl and Susan A. Zumdahl; reviewed by Wheeler Conover; p1273 (Nov).

Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home—But Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray; reviewed by Robert E. Buntrock; p1373 (Dec).

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray; reviewed by Cheryl Baldwin Frech; p1374 (Dec).
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