Resumen de The Perfect Text
Recently I had the opportunity to review the manuscript for a textbook that was under consideration for publication. For the first time in my career, I saw a nonmajors' chemistry textbook under construction. The book had promise: there were the requisite interesting tidbits for myriad multicolored boxes, and the chemical fundamentals were well explained. Yet something was lacking in the manuscript that would truly set this book apart from its competitors. I knew that this would not be the book that I'm looking for, the absolutely perfect book for my students. Explaining the fundamentals is not the problem: many textbooks do that very well. The problem is the packaging.
