Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry (10th Edition)

Karen C. Timberlake puts her expertise to work in her textbook Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry (10th Edition), ISBN 9780136019701. Boasting a comprehendible and easy-to-follow writing style, this text integrates relatable applications for further student enhancement. The book provides specific coverage of topics needed to prepare one for a career in the health field, including professions such as nursing, dietetics, respiratory therapy, or environmental and agricultural science. This latest edition integrates a myriad of new and revised features to engage students including more problem-solving strategies, including new concept checks, more problem-solving guides, and more conceptual, challenge, and combined problems. Karen C. Timberlake organizes the contents of Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry (10th Edition) across several sections with a total of 18 chapters. Each section serves as a self-contained learning unit including useful features such as sample problems, study checks, and problems and answers, along with health notes, environmental notes, and activities presenting real-life applications of chemical concepts. Other teaching strategies include chapter objectives and summaries, visual concept guides, and color photos and diagrams. Chapters address a variety of concepts including chemistry and measurements, matter and energy, atoms and elements, compounds and their bonds, chemical quantities and reactions, gases, solutions, acids and bases, as well as nuclear radiation. Other topics presented are that of alkanes, unsaturated hydrocarbons, organic compounds with oxygen and sulfur, carbohydrates, carboxylic acids, esters, amines, and amides, lipids, amino acids, proteins, and enzymes, nucleic acids and protein synthesis, and finally metabolic pathways and energy production.