However, unless you are already a biology graduate and use this for nostalgia (as I have personally with physics courses), you will need to be making notes and using reference material. There are a total of 72 thirty-minute lectures and a 460-page book that also comes with the course to get through. First thing he tells you is that while the majority of Biology courses (including the one you're likely studying for.

Unfortunately, there is one mistake in this book, to be found in chapter 34, "Deuterostomate Animals. The book has numerous detailed, well-labeled diagrams that are helpful in understanding different processes. Life paper includes 10% pre-consumer waste, 10% post-consumer waste, and is manufactured from wood from well-managed sustainable forests.Having retired from the business world, I recently discovered the absolutely wonderous advances in what I believed to be the "non-physical" sciences. It has been helpful in repeating and revising the material learned in a university class and a great addition to the regular text book.

The 12th edition of Life: The Science of Biology continues to be engaging, active, and focused on teaching the skills that students need to master.A new in-text Visual Summary takes the place of standard text-only summaries to help students better master concepts and competencies via a visual trigger (a key in-text figure) and short concise text entries, to aid their memory.

Learning objectives guide students to the essential content as they read through each Key Concept section. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Life: The Science of Biology are 9781319325473, 1319325475 and the print ISBNs are 9781319315788, 131931578X. New pedagogical features support the mission of Life by teaching students the skills and understanding of experimentation and data they need to succeed in introductory biology and ultimately in their future STEM careers. The way Stephen talks about the various subjects, as well as the way he structures his lessons, does credit to the initial goals, stated in lecture 1, that this is meant to be the layman's entry to the world of biology as well as useable by students seeking to get a college degree.

Course and book-specific resources including adaptive quizzing to personalise the experience for students. For more information about the use of your personal data including for the purposes of anti-piracy enforcement, please refer to Macmillan Learning's. Her work has most recently focused on the protective role of dune ecosystems in mitigating coastal vulnerability due to climate change. Since I am a student, and not a professor or expert of any sort, I am evaluating the book based on how helpful it was to me in learning the material. Life has always presented how we know (the process of science through experiments) as well as what we know (facts derived from these experiments).