The Chemist

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Second, despite having a plot revolving around assassinations and bio-terrorism, there's pretty much no drama. The heroine and the hero make out. A lot. They talk about dogs and food. A lot. At one point, the heroine gets a makeover and becomes best-fray-frays with Alice's psychotic, non-vampiric twin. Then there's these long periods where pretty much NOTHING happens. All those scenes that the reader takes for granted and shouldn't have to be written into the story? Meyer writes about them. Every chemistry professor has different expectations and teaching style, just like every student has a different learning style. However, if you already have your professor’s required textbook but aren’t happy with it, and you don’t have a ton of cash to spend on an additional book this semester, Chang & Goldsby’s General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts would be a perfect supplement without weighing you down with drawn-out explanations or extraneous information. I just wished they could have taken all of the dogs and that's all I'm going to say on that because you need to read the book!

We rate this the best general chemistry book for students on a budget, but even if you aren’t strapped for cash, it is an excellent option. It has made it through 14 editions so far, and they wouldn’t keep printing new editions if it wasn’t top quality. Unfortunately, textbooks are often assigned to classes by department heads and not by the professors who actually teach the class. Plus, right off the bat she completely trusts the evil corporation she spent the last few years running from and manages to torture the wrong person. The sweet brother is Daniel and the special ops brother is Kevin. He's off the grid for reasons. And he ends up taking Daniel and Alex (Juliana) to his hidden compound where he has a partner, Arnie, that run a guard dog/house pet business. I love all of the dogs and all of the characters.The General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications is one of the best chemistry textbooks. It presents superior practice problems, precise argument, and detailed treatment of the subject through a lucid writing approach. This one is the 11th edition of the General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications. And I can admit that I have felt oddly complicit in my silence. That said I only wish I had chosen a different book upon which to air these views, because The Chemist is not at all reflective of how well Meyer’s can tell a story. Sigh.

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Great ideas, pulled wet from a well, never nurtured or given the time to develop and realize their full potential. Moving right along we have insta love up next. Never mind that Alex voices her resistance, no doubt the lady doth protest too much.

Stephenie Meyer changes it up fairly dramatically in The Chemist (2016), her second adult novel, where there is nary a vampire, werewolf or space alien to be found. It’s a rather pulpy but absorbing thriller in the vein of a Jason Bourne novel (to whom she’s dedicated this novel, among others). There’s no real speculative element here, other than perhaps some new developments in chemical-based torture and some startlingly smart dogs. And it's a small thing, but someone should point it out: why is our amazing, uncatchable, super-spy reading espionage novels for tips? Sometimes I wonder if Meyer is just kidding with us, but I suspect she isn't. The narrative does not flow very well. It feels clunky and cobbled together. At the same time it felt like the author was just trying too hard, most especially in introducing and fleshing out the protagonist Alex. It was like she was trying to convince herself about the plausibility of this character and quite frankly the more she said the worse it got. Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).I'm a fan of the Twilight series and I do not care what people say. You must recognize that Stephenie Meyer changed the way YA books are written. Broadly speaking, inorganic chemistry can be considered as chemistry without carbon, although artificial compounds obtained in the laboratory, such as fullerene, graphene, nanotubes and carbides, among others, can nowadays be obtained in the laboratory in a totally synthetic way, being inorganic compounds even though they comprise carbon atoms. It can be used at practically every level of basic chemistry, from undergraduate general chemistry to high school chemistry and even middle school science. Chemistry for Dummies covers all the essential concepts and skills you need to succeed in chemistry, but in language that is simpler and more straightforward than most textbooks. Some books are written more clearly than others, and every student’s learning style is different; a visual learner may prefer a text with plenty of illustrations, while a hands-on learner might benefit from a book bundled with interactive content and practice problems. There’s a best tool to learn chemistry for everyone. The Best Chemistry Textbook: Our Top Choice If there is one technique or experiment that every chemist, or student learning chemistry should know, it is Thin Layer Chromatography (or TLC for short). If you want to … [Read More...] The BEST Chemistry Set for Kids (and Adults!) in 2023