General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry

Description

This loose-leaf, three-hole punched version of the textbook gives students the flexibility to take only what they need to class and add their own notes–all at an affordable price.

For courses in General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry Make connections between chemistry and future health-related careers General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life engages students by helping them see the connections between chemistry, the world around them, and future health-related careers. Known for its friendly writing style, student focus, robust problem-solving pedagogy, and engaging health-related applications, the text prepares students for their careers. The text breaks chemical concepts and problem solving into clear, manageable pieces to ensure students stay on track and motivated throughout their first, and often only, chemistry course. With the newly revised 6th Edition, best-selling author Karen Timberlake and new contributing author MaryKay Orgill connect chemistry to real-world and career applications. Their goal is to help students become critical thinkers by understanding scientific concepts that will form a basis for making important decisions about issues concerning health and the environment and their intended careers. The new edition introduces more problem-solving strategies, more problem-solving guides, new Analyze the Problem with Connect features, new Try It First and Engage features, conceptual and challenge problems, and new sets of combined problems–all to help students develop the problem-solving skills they’ll need beyond the classroom. Also available with Mastering Chemistry MasteringTM is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and often improves results for each student. Students can further master concepts after class through traditional and adaptive homework assignments that provide hints and answer-specific feedback.

1. Chemistry in Our Lives
2. Chemistry and Measurements
3. Matter and Energy
4. Atoms and Elements
5. Nuclear Chemistry
6. Ionic and Molecular Compounds
7. Chemical Reactions and Quantities
8. Gases
9. Solutions
10. Reaction Rates and Chemical Equilibrium
11. Acids and Bases
12. Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Hydrocarbons
13. Alcohols, Phenols, Thiols, and Ethers
14. Aldehydes and Ketones
15. Carbohydrates
16. Carboxylic Acids and Esters
17. Lipids
18. Amines and Amides
19. Amino Acids and Proteins
20. Enzymes and Vitamins
21. Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
22. Metabolic Pathways for Carbohydrates
23. Metabolism and Energy Production
24. Metabolic Pathways for Lipids and Amino Acids

About our author

KAREN TIMBERLAKE is Professor Emerita of chemistry at Los Angeles Valley College, where she taught chemistry for allied health and preparatory chemistry for 36 years. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Washington and her master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Professor Timberlake has been writing chemistry textbooks for 40 years. During that time, her name has become associated with the strategic use of pedagogical tools that promote student success in chemistry and the application of chemistry to real-life situations. More than one million students have learned chemistry using texts, laboratory manuals, and study guides written by Karen Timberlake. In addition to General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, 6th Edition, she is also the author of An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 13th Edition, with the accompanying Study Guide and Selected Solutions Manual, Laboratory Manual and Essentials Laboratory Manual, and Basic Chemistry, 5th Edition, with the accompanying Study Guide and Selected Solutions Manual.

Professor Timberlake belongs to numerous scientific and educational organizations including the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). She has been the Western Regional Winner of the Excellence in College Chemistry Teaching Award given by the Chemical Manufacturers Association. She received the McGuffey Award in Physical Sciences from the Textbook Authors Association for her textbook Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 8th Edition, which has demonstrated her excellence over time. She received the “Texty” Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook Authors Association for the first edition of Basic Chemistry. She has participated in education grants for science teaching including the Los Angeles Collaborative for Teaching Excellence (LACTE) and a Title III grant at her college. She speaks at conferences and educational meetings on the use of student-centered teaching methods in chemistry to promote the learning success of students.

When Professor Timberlake is not writing textbooks, she and her husband relax by playing tennis, ballroom dancing, traveling, trying new restaurants, cooking, and taking care of their grandchildren, Daniel and Emily.

New and updated features of this title

Engage students with a career focus

• Chapter-opening Clinical Career focus provides engaging stories, relating how chemistry is used daily in contemporary health-related professions and introduces the chemical concepts in each chapter.
• Clinical Updates in the end-of-chapter material revisit the story from the Chapter-opening Career focus in the context of the chapter, describe the follow-up treatment and provide additional application problems.
• Clinical Applications in Practice Problems show the relevance between the chemistry content and medicine and health.

Develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills

• Strategies for Learning Chemistry describe successful ways to study and learn chemistry.
• Try It First in each Sample Problem reminds students that the effort of attempting to solve a problem before looking at a solution helps them connect to newly learned ideas, practice retrieval of information, identify gaps in understanding, identify how ideas are related and show how to change their approach to the problem in the future.
• Expanded Study Checks in Sample Problems now contain multiple questions to give students additional self-testing practice.

Hallmark features of this title

Develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills

• Guides to Problem Solving (GPS) use unique color-coded flow charts coordinated with worked examples to visually guide students step-by-step through each problem-solving strategy.
• Understanding the Concepts questions at the end of each chapter build students’ understanding of the details of newly learned chemical concepts.
• Learning Goals at the start of each section identify key concepts, giving students a roadmap for study. Learning Goals throughout the text reinforce student retention and awareness.
• End-of-chapter questions provide further study and application of topics from the entire chapter.

Engage students with a career focus

• Chemistry Links to Health and Environment relate chemistry concepts to real-life topics in health, the environment and medicine that interest students.