General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 6th edition
Published by Pearson (January 19, 2018) © 2019
- Karen C. Timberlake Los Angeles Valley College
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For courses in general, organic, and biological chemistry
Connecting chemistry and future health-related careers
General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life engages students in seeing the connections between chemistry, the world around them and their future health-related careers.
With the 6th Edition, author Karen Timberlake and new contributing author MaryKay Orgill further connect chemistry to real-world and career applications. Their goal is to help students become critical thinkers by understanding scientific concepts that form a basis for decision making around health issues, the environment and their intended careers.
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.
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.
Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Mastering Chemistry (available for Spring 2021 classes)
Instructors, no need to create a new course. Digital updates have been added.
- NEW & UPDATED: Enhanced end-of-chapter questions with answer-specific feedback guide students towards the correct answer without giving the answer away.
- NEW: Ready-to-Go Study Tools help students master tough topics with Key Concept Videos, Interactive Worked Examples and problem sets with answer-specific feedback.
- UPDATED: Dynamic Study Modules pose a series of questions about a course topic, adapt to a student's performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback.
Features of Mastering Chemistry for the 6th Edition; published 2018
- Key Math Skills and Core Chemistry Skills Tutorials are assignable practice problems tied to text feature boxes to ensure students master basic quantitative and science skills.
- Problem Solving in Allied Health tutorials help students develop problem-solving skills needed to succeed in the course and future allied health careers.
- Concept Map quizzes help students make key connections via drag-and-drop applets and related multiple-choice questions.
- Construct a Concept Map problems guide students through creating concept maps and provide wrong-answer feedback to clarify their proposed concept links.
Highlights of the DIGITAL UPDATE for Pearson eText (available for Spring 2021classes)
- NEW: 18 Interactive videos and demonstrations with quizzes help students through the most challenging topics by showing how chemistry works in real life and introducing a bit of humor into chemical problem solving and demonstrations. Each video corresponds to a key concept/topic in most chapters and includes pause and predict functionality. Topics include Using Conversion Factors, Balancing Nuclear Equations, and Chemical v. Physical Change.
- NEW: Study Checks for every Worked Example add interactivity for students with multiple-choice questions and include wrong-answer feedback.
- NEW: Learning Goal Checklist quizzes provide 1-2 questions for each chapter's learning objectives. Questions direct students to specific lessons related to the topics discussed. Instructors can assign for pre- lecture preparation or homework to test students on their comprehension of chapter content and help them focus on important, hard-to-grasp chemistry concepts.
- Chemistry in Our Lives
- Chemistry and Measurements
- Matter and Energy
- Atoms and Elements
- Nuclear Chemistry
- Ionic and Molecular Compounds
- Chemical Reactions and Quantities
- Gases
- Solutions
- Reaction Rates and Chemical Equilibrium
- Acids and Bases
- Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Hydrocarbons
- Alcohols, Phenols, Thiols, and Ethers
- Aldehydes and Ketones
- Carbohydrates
- Carboxylic Acids and Esters
- Lipids
- Amines and Amides
- Amino Acids and Proteins
- Enzymes and Vitamins
- Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
- Metabolic Pathways for Carbohydrates
- Metabolism and Energy Production
- 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.
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