This comprehensive text - and its accompanying suite of media tools - present basic concepts and their relevant connections to the chemical principles operating in everyday life. Numerous examples and real-world applications should help to provide chemistry enthusiasts with meaningful understandings.;The topics covered include scientific measurements, matter and energy, models of the atom, chemical reactions, the mole concept, liquids and solids, acids and bases, oxidation and reduction, chemical equilibrium, nuclear and organic chemistry and biochemistry.