General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life

by Karen C. Timberlake

For courses in General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry Make connections between chemistry and future health-related careers General, Organic, and Biological 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 or as an easy-to-use, standalone Pearson eText
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Genres: Textbooks, Reference, School, College

936 pages, Hardcover

First published December 29, 2011

Reviews

[Bobbi Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

It looks like I'm not completing my chemistry education with this book after all, unfortunately. This is sort of a shame, as I spent a great deal of time with it open in front of me, this past semester. I took away a "B" (I think) for the class and the instructor didn't teach a damned thing so I think that says a lot for the book.

[Katelin · Rating 3 out of 5]

As far as textbooks go, this one wasn't that bad. It was broken down into manageable chunks of information. The information was relevant and presented in a good way.

[暧夜夜 · Rating 5 out of 5]

很棒的化学入门教材，一点也不枯燥干涩。简洁明了的语言和大量配图，每一章的开头还有相关的职业介绍。推荐

[Ayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative chemistry book. Well written, illustrated, great everyday jobs associated with learning topics. My only caveat is that she used poisonous rather than venomous when speaking about snakes, snakes have fangs they inject venom, toads have poison on their skin the are poisonous. Beside that great book for chemistry!

[Angelica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably the first and last textbook in my college career I will have read from cover to cover. Thankfully, it is also probably the most clear, well-written, and relevant-to-the-course textbook I have used. It got me through 2 semesters, and now I'm done with chemistry classes for the rest of time (hopefully).

[JoBird · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this to be a great textbook. Easy to read, it got me through the semester and helped me get a distinction. I had never studied Chemistry before and I found this to be a great introduction to the subject. Pretty much read it cover to cover.

[Kimba]

Far better than the prescribed text for the Chem courses, so I use this one as well

[Kristi · Rating 2 out of 5]

A textbook... woohoo. Glad to be done with this one... for now. At least everything was easy to understand, and there were interesting sections on real-life application throughout the text.

[Camille · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chem 101 at BYU by Professor Andrus. Really hard to understand the topics later in the book.