Introductory Courses (mainly for "non-majors")

The distinction between courses for students who will major in chemistry and for those who won't is not clear-cut. Even more indistinct is the boundary between this category and the one for allied health students. Users of this archive may wish to consider texts in both of those categories as well as this one

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• Armold, Melvin
• Essentials of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry (with CD-ROM)
• 1st Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2001
• 695 pp.
• 9780030056482
• $117.99

• Baird, Colin and Wendy Gloffke
• Chemistry in Your Life
• 2nd Edition
• W. H. Freeman
• 2006
• 600 pp.
• 9780716770428
• $117.95

• Bettelheim, Frederick, William H. Brown, Mary K. Campbell, and Shawn O. Farrell
• Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry
• 9th Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2010
• 864 pp.
• 9780495391128
• $175.99

• Breslow, Ronald
• Chemistry Today and Tomorrow: The Central, Useful, and Creative Science
• 1st Edition
• Jones and Bartlett
• 1997
• 117 pp.
• 9780763704636
• $55.95

• Brown, Larry and Tom Holme
• Chemistry for Engineering Students
• 1st Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2006
• 656 pp.
• 9780534389741
• $166.95

• Cracolice, Mark S. and Edward I. Peters
• Introductory Chemistry: An Active Learning Approach
• 4th Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2010
• 816 pp.
• 9780495558477
• $142.99

• Dickson, T. R.
• Introduction to Chemistry
• 8th Edition
• John Wiley
• 1999
• 640 pp.
• 9780471180425
• $71.95
• Previous Edition Reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1996 73(8) A174

• Driscoll, Jerry A.
• Introduction to College Chemistry
• 1st Edition
• Kendall/Hunt
• 2001
• 386 pp.
• 9780757517440
• $56.12
• the 1994 edition (also a "first edition") was reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1996 73(10) A242

• Emsley, John
• Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Molecules in Everyday Life
• 1st Edition
• Oxford University Press
• 1998
• 272 pp.
• 9780192862068
• $17.95
• Reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1999 76 (8) 1065

• Eubanks, Lucy Pryde, Cathy Middlecamp, Norbert Pienta, Carl Heltzel, Gabriela Weaver
• Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society
• 6th Edition
• McGraw Hill
• 2009
• 622 pp.
• 9780077221348
• $120

• Gray, Harry B., John D. Simon, and William C. Trogler
• Braving the Elements
• 1st Edition
• University Science Books
• 1995
• 432 pp.
• 9780935702347
• $42

• Hein, Morris and Susan Arena
• Foundations of College Chemistry
• 13th Edition
• John Wiley
• 2009
• 736 pp.
• 9780470554906
• $80
• 9th edition was reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1997 74 908

• Hill, John W. , Doris K. Kolb and Terry W. McCreary
• Chemistry for Changing Times
• 12th Edition
• Pearson/Prentice-Hall
• 2010
• 640 pp.
• 9780136054498
• $132
• 5th edition reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1991 68(5) A134

• Joesten, Melvin D., Mary E. Castellion, and John Hogg
• World of Chemistry: Essentials
• 4th Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2007
• 576 pp.
• 9780495012139
• $142.95

• Johll, Matthew E.
• Investigating Chemistry: A Forensic Science Perspective
• 2nd Edition
• W. H. Freeman and Company
• 2009
• 704 pp.
• 9781429209892
• $113.95

• Karukstis, Kerry K. and Gerald R. Van Hecke
• Chemistry Connections: The Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena
• 2nd Edition
• Elsevier/Academic Press
• 2003
• 250 pp.
• 9780124001510
• $45.95

• Kelter, Paul B., James D. Carr, and Andrew Scott
• Chemistry: A World of Choices
• 2nd Edition
• McGraw Hill
• 2003
• 672 pp.
• 9780072315905
• $129.69

• Millard, Julie T.
• Adventures in Chemistry
• 1st Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2008
• 672 pp.
• 9780618376629
• $120.36

• Nicolaou, K. C. and Tamsyn Montagnon
• Molecules that Changed the World
• 1st Edition
• John Wiley
• 2008
• 385 pp.
• 9783527309832
• $55

• Russo, Steve and Michael E. Silver
• Essentials of Introductory Chemistry
• 3rd Edition
• Benjamin Cummings
• 2007
• 630 pp.
• 9780805305937
• $122.67

• Russo, Steve and Michael E. Silver
• Introductory Chemistry
• 3rd Edition
• Benjamin Cummings
• 2007
• 864 pp.
• 9780805382983
• $131.8

• Senese, Frederick A.
• Internet Guide for Chemistry
• 1st Edition
• Pearson/Prentice Hall
• 2004
• 52 pp.
• 9780130457639
• $12

• Sherman, Allan, and Sharon Sherman
• Chemistry and Our Changing World
• 3rd Edition
• Pearson/Prentice Hall
• 1992
• 592 pp.
• 9780131315419
• $77.33

• Shultz, Mary Jane
• Chemistry for Engineers
• 1st Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2007
• 522 pp.
• 9780618271948
• $158.95

• Snyder, Carl H.
• The Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things
• 4th Edition
• John Wiley
• 2003
• 680 pp.
• 9780471415756
• $128.95
• Previous edition reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1996 73(5) A110

• Stoker, H. Stephen
• Introduction to Chemical Principles
• 9th Edition
• Pearson/Prentice Hall
• 2008
• 800 pp.
• 9780132379946
• $102.2
• Previous edition reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 1999 76 (11) 1488

• Suchocki, John
• Conceptual Chemistry: Understanding Our World of Atoms and Molecules
• 3rd Edition
• Pearson/Benjamin Cummings
• 2007
• 752 pp.
• 9780805382211
• $127.4
• Previous edition reviewed in Journal of Chemical Education 2003 80(7) 746

• Tro, Nivaldo
• Introductory Chemistry
• 3rd Edition
• Pearson/Prentice Hall
• 2009
• 848 pp.
• 9780136003823
• $135.8

• Tro, Nivaldo. J.
• Chemistry In Focus: A Molecular View of our World
• 4th Edition
• Brooks/Cole - Cengage
• 2009
• 640 pp.
• 9780495605478
• $139.99

• van Koppen, Petra A.
• General Chemistry Laboratory Manual
• 1st Edition
• McGraw Hill
• 2007
• 9780073315041
• $73.75