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This book is designed to give students the key to success in chemistrythe ability to perform calculations with ease. The hundreds of problems with fully explained solutions and the many more with answers give readers plenty of opportunity to check their understanding and hone their problem-solving skills. This invaluable tutor also alerts students to how questions might be worded in assignments and exams. This fully updated edition includes a section on how to use the scientific calculator.
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A Must For The Chem. Novice.......2001-01-11
A truly helpful guide to a difficult subject!
Awesome!.......1999-10-24
Very filling and wonderful!
Strewn with careless errors.......1997-04-13
Within the first two chapters of this book, someone with no prior knowledge of mathematical manipulation of fractions will end up pulling out his or her own hair while trying to match his or her answers to that of the author. Careless errors make this item not worth purchasing. Be warned
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This clear and complete guide to the fundamentals of chemistry features course material in a succinct outline form, together with hundreds of detailed, fully solved problems. A perfect companion to most standard texts, this third edition has been updated to include the latest pedagogic approaches; more than 670 fully worked problems of varying difficulty, designed to lead you safely through the pitfalls of the course; and hundreds more practice problems.
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This clear and complete guide to the fundamentals of chemistry features course material in a succinct outline form, together with hundreds of detailed, fully solved problems. A perfect companion to most standard texts, this third edition has been updated to include the latest pedagogic approaches; more than 670 fully worked problems of varying difficulty, designed to lead you safely through the pitfalls of the course; and hundreds more practice problems.
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Get Schaum's COLLEGE Chemistry instead.......2007-06-23
I bought this and the Schaum's "College Chemistry" to get my HS son up to speed for his HS Honors Chemistry course. (I had several years of chem in college.) I found this one much too simplistic to the point of being confusing in that they leave out a lot. On the other hand, the Schaum's "College Chemistry" is just perfect. The worked examples in THAT book are clear and the text is fairly comprehensive. In THAT book there are lots of extra examples to work on.
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What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.
Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
- Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
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Not very helpful.......2007-03-07
This is one of those textbooks where if you already know what the author is trying to teach you, it's perfectly clear, and if you don't, it might as well be Greek. It may help as an adjunct to a textbook, but it is certainly not a 'crash course' that can stand alone. I was very disappointed and it is certainly not as advertised.
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Question: Who made us?
Answer #1: God made us.
Answer #2: Evolution made us.
Which is it? What is the true answer to the age-old question of where we came from? Is it even possible to know for sure?
In Finding Darwin's God, Kenneth R. Miller offers a surprising resolution to the evolutionism vs. creationism debate.A distinguished professor of biology at Brown University, Miller argues that the genuine world of science is far more interesting than either the scientific mainstream or its creationist critics have assumed. He begins by systematically demolishing the claims of evolution's most vocal critics, showing that Darwin's great insights continue to be valid, even in the rarefied worlds of biochemistry and molecular biology. As he puts it, evolution "is the real thing, and so are we."
Does this mean that evolution invalidates all worldviews that depend upon the spiritual? Does it demand logical agnosticism as the price of scientific consistency? And does it rigorously exclude belief in God?
His answer, in each and every case, is a resounding No. Not, as he argues, because evolution is wrong. Far from it. The reason, as Miller shows, is that evolution is right.
In this lively, fast-paced book, Miller offers a thoughtful, cutting-edge analysis of the key issues that seem to divide science and religion. As his narrative shows, the difficulties that evolution presents for Western religions are more apparent than real. Properly understood, evolution adds depth and meaning not only to a strictly scientific view of the world, but also to a spiritual one. Miller's resolution of the issues that seem to divide God from evolution will serve as a guide to anyone interested in the classic questions of ultimate meaning and human origins.
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Great science but makes the same philosophical errors as creationists.......2007-09-23
Miller is an EXCELLENT defender of evolution. His presentations are some of THE best I've ever seen, stronger than even Dawkins'.
Yet he makes the incredible blunder of providing no evidential basis for God yet claiming God's existence with as much certainty as he claims evolution. Evolution has a clear evidential basis, which he provides strongly in the book and so is justifiably adamant about it. God has no clear evidential basis, he does not provide it in the book (he just assumes it) and yet is also very unjustifiably adamant about it. He sets evolution and God on equal grounds as ideas, yet provides no justification for the latter.
Miller seems completely blind to this philosophical error. I attended a talk of his at the University of Kansas. The next day after the talk, he held a Q & A session. Some friends of mine presented him with the above error and he had no response to it aside from something like "well religion is important and something we need". Yet another claim that we AGAIN have no evidence for believing.
Miller's religious arguments make you think.. a very small amount. They made me think for about 2 minutes until I realized that he was just making the same gap argument for God that the creationists are. He is just moving the gap from [God created life] to [God created evolution which then created life]. He is still claiming that behind this universe, a place that science can never go (so he assumes), we will find a God who created all universal processes. It is exactly the same type of argument the creationists make. He is still contending that God is somehow necessary to make it all work (but he claims this with no justification).
He just thinks it is safe to retreat with God to the outer universe and that the oncoming rush of science will not reach such a distant target. This may be a bold claim, but I think, as history has shown us (and as Miller himself claims), science will find him. So Miller believes in the principle of science filling the gaps but makes the logical error of not applying this principle to his own ideas after using them to dismantle the creationists'. Religious people do this a lot. They put their own pet ideas in a vacuum, safe from logical criticism yet use logic to ferociously dismantle anyone else's who conflict.
Finally, Miller also makes the philosophical mistake of thinking there is no meaning in life without God. This is again the same philosophical mistake that his creationists make, just on a higher order.
How this works: creationists assume that since evolution is true, God cannot be. The logical fallacy here is argument from lack of imagination. I.e. "I cannot see how there could be a God if evolution is true therefore there couldn't be." Miller refutes this strongly: of course there could be; God still could have created evolution. This still has the gap problem above, but I've already covered that.
Now here is Miller's analogous logical error: "I cannot see how there would be morality and meaning in life without God, therefore there can't be." But philosophers over the ages and just normal every day people have shown that life continuously has meaning and is infused with morality whether there is a God or not. The fact is, we want meaning and we have morality. There is no cosmological worldview that can take that away. People feel sick when they think of a life without meaning or morality. There is a reason for this: these things are naturally important to us. We don't need a God to feel that way. The very fact that people want to keep God around to protect meaning and morality is proof that it does not depend on God. It is proof that these things matter to us no matter what. And we will believe the most ridiculous absurtities to justify believing in them. But the funny and obvious step that it seems no religious person chooses to take is to simply believe in meaning and morality as ends in themselves without the ridiculous justifications. We don't need a God around to think they are important.
So in conclusion, Miller makes the same philosophical mistakes that he criticizes creationists of making; he just makes them on higher order ideas that creationists have not yet evolved enough to have. These mistakes are claims without evidence, God of the gaps, and argument from lack of imagination.
His evolutionary arguments are sound and make the book valuable. His theological arguments are an erratic philosophical nuisance polluting an otherwise cogent presentation of ideas.
Hella cool.......2007-08-17
You shouldn't care so much to even bother to rate, but I just wanted to say please be careful when you read "literature," there's a lot of people making a lot of money... if your local library doesn't have this book, think about why not. Or just order anything by Rush Limbaugh, hell, you've got to do something, right? I'm sure he can give you an opinion about the common ground between god and evolution.
A Christian Evolutionist??.......2007-08-06
I am a Christian who wants to learn about evolution but after buying "Not By Chance" by Dr Lee Spetner and being criticised that he didn't understand the theory and I was mislead I was confused and frustrated. There is so much misinformation on both evolution and creation that its so easy for one to be mislead. I did my research on this book and found from my biologist friends, the internet that this book's biology is flawless. Miller teaches Biology like Richard Dawkins and in his book "The God Delusion" he recommends Miller's book which is how I came across this title. Miller's position is that God used evolution as the mechanism by which he created all plants and animals. He has a prejudice and bias towards science which results in him having to water down the Genesis account which some religious readers my find disturbing. It could be argued this book isn't really a common ground but more a book that shows creation and evolution can co-exist and how one might reconcile the two. I would've taken the approach that evolution was the physical process used by God and the biblical account outlines the meaning, purpose and intent of evolution and what God was aiming at for that would've been a more common ground.
Miller argues that God created evolution to do his creating and then more or less sat back and watched the show. He argues, evolution and creation do not conflict or contradict each other they actually supplement each other. Miller doesn't argue for God's existence so if you're looking for that sort of book sorry, this is not it! Miller takes a faith based approach to God using the Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics to argue God can't be proved or disproved. Victor J Stenger on his website has a essay where he shows the problems with Miller's God for the Uncertainity Principle only goes so far. Miller argues that one species would've eventually surfaced through evolutionary processes where God could have a relationship. What I find Miller doesn't seem to explain is why the bible says Man was a separate creation? God created man in his image if we evolved from primates then God is an ape? I don't mean to offend anyone with that statement but that's the impression Miller gave me. Miller's interpretation of Genesis is that its analogous and God used the terminology of those at the time he chose to reveal himself to explain creation to them. He supports Augustine's view that the bible should not be taken literally and I tend to agree. I do like how Miller goes through the evidence that supports evolution and why this evidence argues against the common conception of God. He does address certain groups in this book such as proponents of Young Earth Creation (YEC), Creationism, unbelievers who take science beyond its limits, God of the Gaps arguments, Micro & Macro Evolution and why the fossil record supports evolution not creation.
I learnt a lot from this book and I enjoyed reading it for its one of the few title's on this subject I've read that's not full of hostility towards their opponents. I believe this book should be purchased for the biological information included for its written in a language that anyone can understand and its accurate. I do believe that Miller's common ground is not really common it does have a prejudice and bias toward science and does slightly undermine the biblical account. But its good to know that evolution and creation can co-exist and this evolution vs creation debate can be reconciled I just don't agree with Miller's position on it.
Solving the conflict.......2007-06-27
Miller offers essential keys to show that Darwin's ideas do not preclude the existence of God. He is a fantastic thinker and scientist.
Great science, poor philosophy.......2007-06-20
One could only expect sound evolutionary science by the co-author of the textbook "Biology." Dr. Miller's refutation of creationism, including intelligent design, is excellent and merciless. Yet this book does not deliver in its main goal: to find common ground between God and evolution.
Miller's argument, briefly stated, is that God (spiritual and infinite) created the universe (material and finite) where he acts in concordance with scientific laws. The material world, however, is not absolutely deterministic. Quantum uncertainty renders the very fabric of existence inherently unpredictable. As a result, mankind is contingent, that is, it did not *have* to emerge from the evolutionary process. When it did, it had (and has) truly free will. We are free to love or reject the God who has chosen a material universe, including evolution, to shape us.
This argument sounds fascinating at first, but truly has a number of flaws:
--- The relations among quantum uncertainty, freedom of will, and determinism are foggy. Miller himself realizes that quantum mechanics is unpredictable but not random (that is, it's statistically significant), yet claims it undermines determinism. His very idea of determinism is unattainable and indefensible, and no one really tries to defend it. It is a mere straw man that's easy to burn down. If determinism rules out God, I fail to see how a probabilistic universe gives it back. Likewise, if absolute determinism would exclude freedom of will, I fail to see how quantum uncertainty would give it back to us.
--- Miller criticizes deism (the idea that God created the universe but is now absent or dead) and affirms that evolution is compatible with the great monotheistic religions... but his idea of "quantic God" who assigns laws to a material world and then waits for the outcome is distinctly deist in nature. Miller never tackles serious apologetic questions such as prayer, the nature and existence of Jesus Christ, or the presence of thousands of other religions, so there is no reason to favor the Judeao-Christian god over any other deity.
--- Miller automatically ascribes ethics and purpose to religion, showing great ignorance in moral philosophy, where the identification of moral principles with religious faith is laden with issues.
--- Part of Miller's argument in rejecting determinism is based on a dichotomy of faith and reason, which most materialists inherently reject. His discussion of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology is incomplete at best.
--- Concepts such as God's love, God's gifts to humanity, God's grace, and divine purpose are seldom explained and poorly employed. It's not so much that they do not belong to serious philosophical inquiry, but rather that Miller uses them in an almost random, doctrinal sort of way that reminds the reader of preachers' and televangelists' cheap apologetics. Some paragraphs are very well informed and even enlightening, while others fall into the same category as Sunday school sermons.
The overall feeling while reading the (well-written, if a bit redundant) book is that Miller has tackled a titanic but hopeless apologetic task. He seems to be struggling to find a bridge between two hemispheres of his brain--the scientific mind and the spiritual area--where a bridge might just not exist. His refutation of one extreme, creationism, is well done. His refutation of the other, materialism and determinism, presents serious unsolved problems. Miller has good insights, and his discussion of divine purpose and contigency of humanity is brilliant, but ultimately he fails to deliver exactly in the area where the debate could use fresh air: the common ground between religion and scientific materialism.
Exactly like John Haught's "God After Darwin," this book is another failed attempt at reconciliation of Christian thought and evolutionary theory. The point is not that religion and science collide: it's that Christianity (monotheism in general) and evolutionary science collide. Deism has no issue with Darwin, while Christ does, and Miller, like many others, will not or can not face the issue.
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Six loyal fans travel to Costa Rica to free an expatriate cartoonist jailed for impersonating a character in a novel. From the defiant first sentence to the unorthodox last page, Frogg Pond is a bold and ribbiting literary adventure.
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Margaritaville on the Dark Side of the Moon.......2001-08-27
If Frogg Pond was set to music there would be a Jimmy Buffett song in every scene. The characters don't wear "sweat stained Bogart suits," but they do invoke images of people who might. Frogg Pond, though, is much deeper than tropical pop. Think Margaritaville on the Dark Side of the Moon. Or Dr. Seuss meets Salvador Dali. Or maybe the diner in Another Road Side Attraction. Anyone who hates being told what to do, can't stand corporate incompetence, and doesn't trust the government as far as they can throw it will enjoy Frogg Pond.
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