This brief text consistently relates core course material to students' lives, clarifies the process of science and demonstrates how the theme of evolution integrates all of biology. Hailed for its clear writing, scientific accuracy, and real-world examples, Essential Biology is a brief non-majors biology text that focuses on the core concepts students need to make scientificall...(展开全部)

Essential Cell Biology provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental concepts of cell biology. Its lively writing and exceptional illustrations make it the ideal textbook for a first course in cell and molecular biology. The text and figures are easy-to-follow, accurate, clear, and engaging for the introductory student. Molecular detail has been kept to a minimum in or...(展开全部)

Essential Cell Biology provides a readily accessible introduction to the central concepts of cell biology, and its lively, clear writing and exceptional illustrations make it the ideal textbook for a first course in both cell and molecular biology. The text and figures are easy-to-follow, accurate, clear, and engaging for the introductory student. Molecular detail has been kept...(展开全部)

Essential Biology is a brief, non-majors biology textbook that brings the authors' extraordinary reputation for biological accuracy and teaching innovation to bear upon four core biological topics: cells, genetics, evolution, and ecology. The authors use evolution as the thematic thread to tie all twenty chapters into a cohesive exploration of life. In Essential Biology, the cl...(展开全部)

作者：（美国）B.艾伯茨 D.布雷 K.霍普金 A.约翰逊 等 译者：丁小燕 陈跃磊 等 B.艾伯茨（Bruce Alberts）：哈佛大学博士，现任加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）生物化学和生物物理学教授。Science杂志主编，曾任美国科学院院长达12年之久（1993～2005年）。 D.布雷（Dennis Bray）：麻省理工学院博士，现为剑桥大学荣誉退休教授。2006年，他获得微软欧洲科学奖（Microsoft European Science Award）。 K.霍普金（Karen Hopkin）：在艾伯特•爱因斯坦医学院获生物化学博士，现居马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市（Somerville），科普作家。 A.约翰逊（Alexander Johnson）：哈佛大学博士，现任加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）微生物和免疫学教授，生物化学、细胞、遗传和发育生...(展开全部)

BIOLOGY is an authoritative majors textbook with evolution as a unifying theme. In revising the text, McGraw-Hill has consulted extensively with previous users, noted experts and professors in the field. It is distinguished from other texts by its strong emphasis on natural selection and the evolutionary process that explains biodiversity. Not only has the book been thoroughly...(展开全部)

In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the disc...(展开全部)

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . . Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely pri...(展开全部)

"Plant Biology" is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review of what is known about the origins of modern-day plants. Next, the special features of plant genomes and genetics are explo...(展开全部)