Human Biology | 
 enlarge | Author: Sylvia Mader
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
Buy Used: $92.37
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1589
Media: Paperback
Edition: 10
Pages: 536
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0073309346
Dewey Decimal Number: 570
EAN: 9780073309347
Publication Date: February 20, 2007
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Product Description
This market leading human biology text emphasizes the relationships of humans to other living things. Human Biology remains user friendly; relevancy and pedagogy are among its strengths. In this edition, as in previous editions, each chapter presents the topic clearly and distinctly so that students will feel capable of achieving an adult level of understanding. Detailed, high-level scientific data and terminology are not included because Dr. Mader believes that true knowledge consists of working concepts rather than technical facility..
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 Human Biology September 1, 2008
David and Karen Knighton (Alturas, CA USA)
The textbook is easy to read, the chapters are laid out well and it has lots of illustrations for easy understandability.
Human Biology July 20, 2008
Dee
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 GOOD GRAPHICS, FOCUS TOO NARROW, INFURIATING ANCILLARY MATERIALS August 6, 2007
T. L. MCRAE (California)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am a College Biology professor.
Biology textbooks are far better, in general, than they were a couple of decades ago. This book is no exception. In spite of the flaws listed below, it is considerably better than anything I used as a student. For a basic introduction to the human body for a person who had never had ANY biology, it is fairly well-presented.
However, this is clearly an elementary Anatomy and Physiology textbook, with a few chapters pasted on, apparently a nod towards the requirements that a GE textbook introduce an entire subject, not such a narrow focus. The few pasted-on chapters are not integrated with the rest of the material, and evolution is given especially sorry coverage, with its focus on human evolution without adequate explanation of how evolution actually works. This is a topic that should be integrated with the material in the entire book. Likewise, the chapters that formerly actually dealt with other living beings (in the form of pathogens) are now gone. The unfortunately tendency of naive students to think that all of biology deals with the human body is going to be reinforced by this textbook.
I have had outrageous problems getting the multimedia to work. I finally gave up on the 9th edition and used graphics from 10 years previous. Now I can't get access to the 10th edition. Their technical staff is proving more responsive than with the previous edition's program - but no cigar as of yet.
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