Written by Jim Brady, an author well known for his ability to communicate chemistry, and Fred Senese, the architect of the most visited general chemistry Web site, this book and its media are designed to support a variety of backgrounds. It maintains its hallmark feature of accurate, lucid, and interesting explanations of the basic concepts of chemistry as well as its comprehensive coverage and aid to readers in developing problem solving skills.

Work more effectively and check solutions as you go along with the text! The Student Solutions Manual contains worked-out solutions for selected problems from Brady's Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes, 4th Edition. Brady and Senese's Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes, 4th Edition, is a reader-friendly textbook that makes the content accessible without sacrificing either breadth or depth of coverage. The text's informal writing style, emphasis on problem solving, and state-of-the-art media package make this book an ideal fit for readers of various backgrounds and abilities. The 4th edition welcomes new co-author Fred Senese, the architect of the most visited general chemistry website. Together Jim Brady and Fred Senese offer accurate, lucid, and interesting explanations of the basic concepts of chemistry, as well as comprehensive coverage and aid to readers in developing problem solving skills.

The image on the front cover depicts a carbon nanotube emerging from a glowing plasma of hydrogen and carbon, as it forms around particles of a metal catalyst. Carbon nanotubes are a recently discovered allotrope of carbon. Three other allotropes of carbon-buckyballs, graphite, and diamond-are illustrated at the left, as is the molecule methane, CH4, from which nanotubes and buckyballs can be made. The element carbon forms an amazing number of compounds with structures that follow from simple methane, found in natural gas, to the complex macromolecules that serve as the basis of life on our planet. The study of chemistry also follows from the simple to the more complex, and the strength of this text is that it enables students with varied backgrounds to proceed together to significant levels of achievement.