[PharmD]

I newly graduated and was recently asked to be an assistant professor of analytical chemistry.
Though i always liked and succeeded at analytical chemistry i did it with borrowed books, and now i intend to buy one of the following:

Skoog, West, and Holler's "Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry"
Skoog, West, and Holler's "Analytical Chemistry: An Introduction"
Daniel C. Harris's "Quantitative Chemical Analysis"

What are your suggestions? And what are the main differences between them, specially the differences between both Skoog's?

Thanks for your patience.

[JGK]

I have a copy of Harris, it's not bad and covers the basics.  However, like most books, it will never keep up with developments in instrumentation.

I've not seen any of the Skoog's so cannot comment But would suggest that "Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry" would be the more appropriate than an introductory text.