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Title: Biology (6th Edition) by Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece ISBN: 0-8053-6624-5 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $128.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (71 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: If possible I'd give it a 4.5
Comment: This is a nice book, though a bit tough for the unknowledgable person. This is supposed to be a general biology book, used by people without any prior knowledge of biology too, but I somehow don't know if they'll find it too easy. But other than that one drawback, i think that the rest of us will appreciate this book for what it's worth. It's nicely written, with a lot of illustrations and explainations. There are also many references to websites and stuff, so it's additionally useful. Depending on the book bought, there are some nice extras too. My version had a nice and very useful CD-ROM, with a lot of pictures and animations, and practice tests and etc. It also came with a free one year subsciption to an online biology website that was one of the best I've ever seen. Otherwise the subscription costs a lot. The text book by itself was good too, and I really had no need to read any outside material, I found it perfectly good. Everything considered, I really liked this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great wealth of information
Comment: This book is a fairly clear and concise book that deals with the subject of biology. It contains 8 units which are: The Chemistry of Life, The Cell, Genetics, Mechanisms of Evolution, The Evolutionary History Of Biological Diversity, Plant Form and Function, Animal Form and Function and Ecology. Each of these units presents its subject matter in a series of easy to understand chapters. All in all this book is 55 chapters and 1175 pages of interesting biological topics. This is a sourcebook for an overview of biology. The chapters get deep enough into each subject matter to leave the reader feeling filled with knowledge. A great buy for a high school student, a college student, or just a person who wants to know a little bit more about biology.
I must mention that this books language and writing style could be difficult for some people to understand who are not already somewhat familar with biology and biological terms.
Rating: 5
Summary: Now this, is a textbook
Comment: I loved this textbook. Imagine that, the words "love" and "textbook" in the same sentence. This is my first college Biology text so I don't have anything to compare it to, but I feel I did very well in my class not only because I love biology, but because this textbook explained everything in such an interesting and lucid way. The pictures and diagrams are wonderful and incredibly helpful. To give a random example, the chapters on cell mitosis and meiosis. This can be a potentially difficult subject if you're expected to memorize the various stages, and what the chromosomes are doing and when, but this book gives very helpful and colorful diagrams and light micrographs of each stage. The authors really understand the importance of visual learning in conjunction with reading.
Speaking of the authors, I was pleasantly surprised that the writing had a hint of personality, and didn't have the dreaded "textbook dry" monotone. It didn't feel as if robots wrote the book, as in some textbooks. I noticed they reinforced important core concepts throughout to drum it into the students head, like the the connection between "form and function", or how the size and shape of, for example an enzyme, is really it's most important characteristic.
I bought this book new and it came with a cd-rom, that for me, put my grades over the top. I'm not sure I would have done as well without this cd. In it are all sorts of quizzes and tests, a complete on-line version of the book, various links to helpful internet sites, and which I used the most, animations and voice commentary of each chapter. Many people are visual learners, and sometimes they get a much deeper understand of something when they see it in action.
I will not be selling this textbook back to the college after I'm done with it, this is a keeper. I have no complaints about it.
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Title: Student Study Guide for Biology by Martha R. Taylor ISBN: 0805365583 Publisher: Pearson Benjamin Cummings Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Biology: Student Study Guide, Sixth Edition by Taylor, Campbell, Reece ISBN: 0805366342 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $41.00 |
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Title: Investigating Biology (4th Edition) by Judith Giles Morgan, M. Eloise Brown Carter ISBN: 0805373659 Publisher: Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Date: 17 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $79.00 |
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Title: Student Study Guide for Campbell's Biology by Martha R. Taylor, Neil A. Campbell ISBN: 0805319425 Publisher: Pearson Education POD Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $31.75 |
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Title: Biology (Cliffs AP) by Phillip E. Pack ISBN: 0764586823 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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