General information from the publisher's web page:

Harris' new edition carries forward the features that have made this text so popular--straightforward explanations and an applications-oriented presentation, many with a biological focus--adding new pedagogy, more applications, and more examples. It is also the only text for this discipline packaged with its own CD-ROM.

FEATURES

• Straight forward and student friendly writing style
• Wealth of real-world applications from a wide range of fields
• Spreadsheets shows how chemists work with real data
• A wealth of drill problems offers students many opportunities to practice what they've learned
• Margin notes explain and amplify key points
• Explanatory boxes highlight and expand on relevent points
• "Big picture" approach connects material from various chapters and aspects of the field
  

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• New Chapter 0 walks students through the scientific method, emphasizing how it relates to chemical analysis
• Dozens of new applications-oriented problems focus on basic, practical applications of analytical methods
• Expanded Examples (e.g. Chapter 24, "Gas Chromatography," begins with a case study describing how, using these methods and 1,000-year-old human bones, scientists determined the diet of our ancestors
• New "Calibration Methods" chapter (combining least squares and calibration methods in a new separate chapter, Chapter 5)
• Putting the Pieces Together Problems ask students to integrate concepts from multiple chapters, giving them a broader perspective of how chemical analysis is done

MEDIA
CD-ROM, Daniel C. Harris, Michelson Laboratory, and Robert Balahura, University of Guelph
Distribution: Packaged with each copy of the textbook.
This CD features two items that strengthen and enhance students' understanding of the subject: additional problems and their solutions, created by the text author; Spread-sheet data files, created by Robert Balahura.

SUPPLEMENTS
Solutions Manual, Daniel Harris, Michelson Laboratory, China Lake, California, 0-7167-3272-6 containing worked-out solutions to all the problems in the text.

Specific comments: Fairly complete coverage of AA instrumentation, including discussion of important topics for graphite furnace AA including matrix modifiers and background correction.