http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atkins-Physical-Chemistry-Peter/dp/0199543372
The copy I have is from 1978 (was my husband's at uni), but it never seems to age. I use it to check points of physical chemistry, of course, and I also find the impeccable typesetting of maths a very useful guide in editing.
(If I remember correctly, it was this book that we put under the children's Moses basket mattress if we wanted to raise their heads for easier breathing when they had a cold.)
The copy I have is from 1978 (was my husband's at uni), but it never seems to age. I use it to check points of physical chemistry, of course, and I also find the impeccable typesetting of maths a very useful guide in editing.
(If I remember correctly, it was this book that we put under the children's Moses basket mattress if we wanted to raise their heads for easier breathing when they had a cold.)