Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, Global Edition, 14th edition

Published by Pearson (7 November 2024) © 2025

  • Karen C. Timberlake Los Angeles Valley College

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For 1-semester courses in general, organic and biological chemistry.

Relate chemistry to health-related careers. Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, Global Edition is the ideal resource for today's allied health and nursing students. Author Karen Timberlake fosters development of problem-solving skills while helping students visualise and understand concepts. She assumes no prior knowledge of chemistry, engaging students in seeing the connections between chemistry, their world around them and future careers.

The 14th Edition presents new problem-solving strategies, current Chemistry in Health topics and updated content to reflect the diversity of the health care community.

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  • Understanding the Concepts questions are designed to help students build an understanding of newly learned chemical concepts.
  • Chemistry Links to Health and Environment relate chemistry concepts to real-life topics in health, the environment and medicine. New topics include COVID, Vaccines and CRISPR.
  • Practice Problems demonstrate the connection between the chemistry being discussed and skills needed in health-related professional experience.
  • Concept Maps provide a big-picture overview of concepts to help students understand how the concepts connect to one another.
  • Macro-to-micro art illustrations help students visualise chemistry in everyday life and connect recognisable objects with atomic-level representations.

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  • Interactive Videos give students what they request most: the experience of step-by-step problem solving through more than 50 videos that correspond to problems and key concepts from the text.
  • Strategies for Learning Chemistry include 'Thinking About your Thinking' and 'Does Your Answer Make Sense' to help students practice successful ways to study and learn chemistry.
  • Learning Goals Checklist added to the end of each chapter provides multiple-choice questions related to every learning goal.
  • Try It First precedes the Solution section of each Sample Problem to encourage the student to work on the problem before reading the given Solution.
  • Colors, font size, tables, and formulas follow ADA standards for design to ensure the text is accessible and inclusive for all students.
  • Reflecting greater diversity, equity, and inclusion, visuals, language and terminology have been meaningfully revised throughout.

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Table of contents

  • 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
  • Acids and Bases and Equilibrium
  • Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Hydrocarbons
  • Aldehydes and Ketones
  • Carbohydrates
  • Carboxylic Acids, Esters, Amines, and Amides
  • Lipids
  • Amino Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes
  • Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
  • Metabolic Pathways and ATP Production
  • Periodic Table of Elements
  • Atomic masses of the elements
  • Tables
  • Credits
  • Glossary

Author bios

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 An Introduction to General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, 14th Edition, she is also the author of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, with the accompanying Study Guide and Selected Solutions Manual, Laboratory Manual, and Essentials Laboratory Manual, and Basic Chemistry, with the accompanying Study Guide and Selected Solutions Manual.

Professor Timberlake belongs to numerous scientific and educational organisations, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). She speaks at conferences and educational meetings on the use of student-centred teaching methods in chemistry to promote the learning success of students.

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