Life w/ARIS bind in card | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ricki Lewis, Bruce Parker, Douglas Gaffin, Marielle Hoefnagels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 30496
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Pages: 1012
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0073224804
Dewey Decimal Number: 570
EAN: 9780073224800
Publication Date: January 30, 2006
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Product Description
Classroom concepts "come to life" with this exciting new edition of Life by Lewis, Parker, Gaffin and Hoefnagels. For over 15 years, Life has been known for its ability to weave together solid biology content with interesting stories, real-life case studies and applications to student life. The sixth edition offers the depth of content, pedagogical organization, accuracy and visual appeal to serve both majors and non-majors biology students.
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 i havn,t read it yet August 29, 1999
2 out of 27 found this review helpful
after i review i'll do tha
Decent January 8, 2006
Sarah A. Werning (Norman, OK)
This book is not nearly as comprehensive or thorough as Campbell's Biology, but it does do an ok job with the explanations. The book has a lot of charts that do a good job of summarizing the material, which is a feature the earlier editions of Campbell's lack. Some of the illustrations are as good as Campbell's, but I have noticed some inaccuracies in a couple of the illustrations, even though I have the fourth edition. This is not so good for Intro Students who don't know the difference yet. It also places too much emphasis on Linnean terminology (class, phylum, genus, etc), and not enough on cladistics/phylogenetics (which biologists use preferentially now).
The study guide questions at the end of each chapter aren't very good. They swing wildly in scope, with one question asking minutiae not covered very well in the preceding chapter, the next asking about broad concepts, and some big take-home points missed entirely.
There's also not many practical differences between the 4th and 5th editions. If you have to get it, buy a 4th edition and save yourself a lot of cash. If you don't have to get it, buy Campbell's Biology (5th, 6th, or 7th edition is fine) instead.
 Does not explain concepts well June 26, 2003
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I used this book for 2 semesters of introductory biology in college. After the first month, I became frustrated with the poor explanations. I asked a few friends and they recommended Biology by Campbell. What a lifesaver!I also continued to used this book and also found a number of errors in the pictures. This cost me a few points on tests and quizzes, so this added to my low opinion of this book. I also became hesitant to trust what it was telling me, particularly when there were differences between Campbell and this book. It has a nice layout, and it breaks topics into meaningful chunks; the explanations were okay most times and simply inadequate too frequently for me. On a scale of 1 to 10, this book is about a 3 or 4 and Campbell is a 9. But reading Campbell also takes more time and effort.
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