This is an innovative textbook that meets the needs of a one-semester honors-level course in general chemistry. Easy to digest in one semester, this concise, well-structured text helps students develop key skills. It adopts a methodology of rigor and problem solving, and underscores the interdisciplinary nature of the subject through applications in energy, the environment, materials science, and medicine. It also presents advanced topics, such as group theory, organic reaction mechanisms, surface chemistry, computational chemistry, and NMR.