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Chemistry World Student Book Reviews, July 2008

How to finish your doctorate

Advice for writing up a PhD thesis and preparing for the viva


Magnetism updated

Magnetic properties of compounds and phases feature in undergraduate science courses in part because of their current technological importance


Wave packets and more

Introduction to quantum mechanics: a time-dependent perspective


Speeding up the chemistry in our lives

This is one of those timely books that does not leave you empty-handed


Chemistry at the interfaces

The interface of chemistry, biology, drug discovery and medicine


A paradox's coming of age

Considering the major advances in the exciting area of biological inorganic chemistry that the last decade has seen


On the three laws

Readers might suspect that doing chemical thermodynamics at a glance is rather like tossing back a fine cognac in a gulp


Reaction mechanisms

Reading this book has taken me back 50 years to the lectures we had from Peter Sykes on organic reaction mechanisms


Organic helping hand

This workbook accompanies Wyatt and Warren's supremely useful and practical text Organic Synthesis


Assessing risks

This book is a clear and well-written introduction to chemical toxicology and risk assessment


It's all about orbitals

This is a readable and engaging introduction to chemistry at a fairly demanding first year undergraduate level


Materials with a broad brush

This book attempts to address all aspects of the very broad discipline of materials chemistry


Basic ESR

Electron spin resonance: analysis and interpretation is an introductory level textbook


From down under

This is a single-volume chemistry book developed for first-year chemistry courses in Australia and New Zealand


Maths for chemistry

Maths for chemistry


An revised organic classic

Well-established introductory organic chemistry textbook for undergraduates


In brief

Short items