Professors, contact your bookstore for bookstore price. Professors, contact your bookstore for bookstore price. This pioneering textbook invites students into the world of introductory biology, encouraging them to explore while providing tools to help them grasp the material. Every chapter begins with an interesting story and an outline of the topics and concepts that lie ahead.
Major headings help students navigate the concept-based modules, which link logically together.
After each module, a question prompts students to test their understanding. The text is the cornerstone of a fully-integrated learning package, including print and interactive media supplements, that promotes understanding of biology's important connections to our lives and to other natural sciences. Chapter outlines preview the material to be covered, defining the hierarchy among topics and helping students understand the relationships between them. General headings group concept modules into major topics, clarifying for students the framework that connects a chapter's concepts. The redesigned modular format is even more open and student friendly than in previous editions.