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Basic Chemistry Plus Mastering Chemistry with Pearson Etext -- Access Card
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Basic Chemistry Plus Mastering Chemistry with Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package Hardcover - 2016

by Karen C. Timberlake


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  • 0134177134 / 9780134177137 MasteringChemistry with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Basic Chemistry, 5/e
  • 013413804X / 9780134138046 Basic Chemistry 5/e

Details

  • Title Basic Chemistry Plus Mastering Chemistry with Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package
  • Author Karen C. Timberlake
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 5 PCK HAR/
  • Pages 32767
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ, U.S.A.
  • Date 2016
  • ISBN 9780134074306 / 0134074300
  • Weight 3.65 lbs (1.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.1 x 8.8 x 1.1 in (28.19 x 22.35 x 2.79 cm)

About the author

Karen Timberlake is a professor emeritus at Los Angeles Valley College and is a well-known and successful author. She taught GOB chemistry at LAVC and preparatory chemistry for several years at UCLA. She is the author of Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 12e and General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5e. Bill Timberlake is also a professor emeritus at Los Angeles Harbor College where he taught preparatory and organic chemistry for 36 years. Karen Timberlake and Bill Timberlake are known for their accessible writing style, based on carefully paced and simple development of chemical ideas, suited to the background of preparatory students.