Intended for the one-semester preparatory chemistry course, this fifth edition provides students with a foundation in problem solving for the topic areas covered in a standard general chemistry course. It offers a methodology to help students develop conceptual and quantitative problem-solving skills.

Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the duelling elites. In this innovative study Ann Goldberg shows instead how it pervaded all aspects of German life and how, during an era of rapid modernization, it was adapted and incorporated into the modern state, industrial capitalism, and mass politics. In business, state administration, politics, labor relations, gender and racial matters, Germans contested questions of...