Biological Science, Volume 2: Evolution, Diversity, & Ecology

by Scott Freeman

Book Overview

This pioneering text combines research-focused storytelling with the Socratic method to get readers to think like practicing scientists. Each page of the book is designed in the spirit of active... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321841816
• ISBN13: 9780321841810
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Intorductory Biology Book

This book is great for an introductory collegiate biology student (and portions are even sufficient for higher level learning). It is very comparable to other "standard" Biology textbooks (ex. Campbell and Reece). I highly recommend this publication.

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student

This book is definitely worth the money. I am the type of person who learns better from reading than listening to (mostly) boring lectures. For that type of person this book is perfect. It is one of the best science books I've ever used. The main thing to say about this book is that it is very readable. The chapters are relatively short (15-25 pages) and are broken up into nice length subsections. The illustrations only help to understand concepts introduced in the text. I think the book does a great job of what it intended to; Give a good introduction to a very broad range of biological subjects without sacrificing the details.

Great CD-ROM, Great Information, Interesting Research

I love biology and the book was a huge help in my lecture class this year. The layout flowed well from one section to the next, and from all the chapters we covered there was very little extraneous data. Everything we needed to know what contained in the chapters and detailed enough to understand the basic concepts. The study questions at the end of the chapter also helped with the basic understanding of the material. The CD-ROM was extremely helpful with studying for tests or clarifying a chapter that was a bit confusing. For each concept there is a PDF worksheet, a pre-quiz, an animation with video and audio and text, and a post quiz. The CD-Rom was the biggest help in studying for my final, I'm more confident that I will pass because of this CD-ROM. And on the web tutorial browser used, I had ZERO problems with the program working within my Mozilla Firefox browser. No Netscape needed. The book isn't perfect for everyone. If your teacher strays from the book in lectures, you may need other sources to help clarify some concepts. My teachers never strayed farther than their own experiences in the field that were very closely related to the topics we were studying at the time. Most cases, the book will be all you need for raw information and the CD-ROM can help clarify a topic even more and help you study for your tests. Don't be afraid of the book, it's large but very much worth the money.

My favorite textbook ever

I've only used volume one of this book, but I liked it so much that as soon as i get a chance, I'm going to order the next two volumes. It was a FABULOUS help in learning about glycolysis and photosynthesis...the pictures are incredibly helpful. I would highly recommend this book!