A market leading textbook offering a fresh and engaging approach to the teaching of modern inorganic chemistry while giving a clear, well-balanced introduction to the key principles of the subject.The full-colour text design with three dimensional illustrations brings the subject to life. Throughout the book students are able to reinforce their learning with the use of worked examples and self-study exercises. Numerous applications and topic boxes also relate the chemistry to everyday life. Special selected topics chapters are included covering inorganic kinetics and mechanism, catalysis, solid state chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry Topic boxes are used extensively throughout to relate the chemistry described to everyday life, the chemical industry, environmental issues and legislation, and bioinorganic chemistry Principles and descriptive chemistry are covered in separate chapters, allowing students to study theory first and then relate theory to descriptive chemistry