"An interactive presentation of general chemistry for college and university students ... While the Interactive Presentation makes up the majority of the material on these discs, other items are: ActivChemistry Software, CAChe Visualizer for Education, a tool for visualizing molecules and their properties, Interactive periodic table database, Database of Common Chemical Compounds, Plotting tool, Molecular weight and molarity calculators."--Page iii.

Are you looking for the key to success in your chemistry class? In CHEMISTRY, you will find a strong molecular reasoning focus, problem-solving exercises and an innovative online homework management system that will prepare you for any challenge you might encounter. The textbook is filled with learning aids that will help you master concepts of the course.

This new edition of CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS continues to provide students with the "core" material essential to understanding the principles of general chemistry. Masterton and Hurley cover the basics without sacrificing the essentials, appealing to several markets. Appropriate for either a one- or two-semester course, CHEMISTRY: PRINCIPLES AND REACTIONS, Fifth Edition is three hundred pages shorter than most general chemistry texts and lives up to its long-standing reputation as THE student-oriented text. Though this text is shorter in length than most other General Chemistry books, it is not lower in level and with the addition of the large volume of content provided by the revolutionary GENERAL CHEMISTRY INTERACTIVE 3.0 CD-ROM that is included with every copy, it has a depth and breadth rivaling much longer books.

The quality of human life is described in terms understanding to the non-science major in this application-oriented chemistry textbook. This paperback offers a more concise, less theoretical, less mathematical version of the hardback version, WORLD OF CHEMISTRY, Second Edition.