Human Biology

Cecie Starr, Elizabeth McMillan - Collection Brooks/Cole

512 pages, parution le 11/02/2005 (6^eme édition)

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Résumé

In this 6th edition of HUMAN BIOLOGY, Cecie Starr and Bev McMillan have created a friendly, issues-oriented book with enormous instructional power. The Sixth Edition of Starr and McMillan's best-selling HUMAN BIOLOGY is designed to help students understand human biology by engaging them in learning in every way possible. Segments on the FREE accompanying interactive CD-ROM, as well as the CNN Today videos, Web links, and reading from the InfoTrac College Edition library are all integrated with the text to support, illuminate, and reinforce the text. The chapter opening "Impacts, Issues" case study focuses students on a key biology-related societal issue and is revisited throughout the chapter. Then the chapter's "How Would You Vote?" feature asks students to consider a related news topics, gather and evaluate pro/con information, apply knowledge, and cast a vote on the Web. Students can see how peers in their state and across the nation voted.
The free Student CD-ROM provides access to BiologyNow, a powerful diagnostic learning tool that helps students assess their unique study needs through pretests and personalized learning plans. The content has been updated as well. Several key chapters have been reorganized to improve the flow of ideas and to better tie core concepts to illustrations. For example, the chapter on digestion and nutrition has expanded coverage of dietary guidelines and weight control. Chapter 9 provides a more focused, better-illustrated discussion of heart structure, the cardiac cycle, and circuits of blood flow. Coverage of human evolution is expanded in Chapter 24. Other updated content can be found in the chapters on the muscular system, digestive system, and cardiovascular system. There is also expanded coverage of topics such as food allergies, newly emerging infectious diseases including SARS, "Mad Cow" disease, and West Nile virus. Sections on disorders of the nervous system and immune system have been expanded too.

L'auteur - Elizabeth McMillan

is currently a Research Fellow at the Open University where she co-founded the Complexity Science Research Centre. She is also a co-founder and a Director of ht UK Complexity Society, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with many yers experience as a Senior Manager.

Sommaire

Learning About Human Biology
Molecules of Life
Cells and How They Work
Tissues, Organs Systems, and Homeostasis
The Skeletal System
The Muscular System
Digestion and Nutrition
Blood
Circulation?The Heart and Blood Vessels
Immunity
The Respiratory System
The Urinary System
The Nervous System
Sensory Systems
The Endocrine System
Reproductive Systems
Development and Aging
Life at Risk: Infectious Disease
Cell Reproduction
Observable Patterns of Inheritance
Chromosomes and Human Genetics
DNA, Genes, and Biotechnology
Genes and Disease: Cancer
Principles of Evolution
Ecology and Human Concerns

I. Concepts in Cell Metabolism
II. Periodic Table of the Elements
III. Units of Measure
IV. Answers to Genetics Problems
V. Answers to Self-Quizzes
VI. Key to Critical Thinking Questions

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Thomson
Auteur(s)	Cecie Starr, Elizabeth McMillan
Collection	Brooks/Cole
Parution	11/02/2005
Édition	6^eme édition
Nb. de pages	512
Format	22,5 x 27,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1960g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780534997830