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 Biology - The Unity and Diversity of Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) Deluxe
Author Company: Brooks Cole
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Biology - The Unity and Diversity of Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) Deluxe 2 stars (repetitive) - This book is useful and contains a lot of good ...
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OS: Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP / VISTA
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Biology - The Unity and Diversity of Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) - 2 stars (repetitive) - This book is useful a
Biology : The Unity and Diversity of Life (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) review:2 stars (repetitive) - This book is useful and contains a lot of good information, but could have been half as thick as it is. Everything is summarized more than once, in side-bars and at the ends of chapters, and key points are even repeated more than once in the text itself. The result is patchy text that is difficult to navigate and next to impossible to find information quickly in.1 stars (Biological Detour) - This is the book I had in my college biology course. I find this book to be quite inconsistent. While it has it's bright spots and explains some things very well, it is one of those books where you end up having to hunt for the information. Result? You spend a great deal of time deciphering the book which has the information strewn everywhere in a fashion that's not entirely organized. Not to mention the fact that it stops dead cold in the middle of explaining a concept in order to go into great detail about another related concept. Then suddenly it jolts the reader back to what it was talking about beforehand. A good and elementary example of this is in chapter 2 where they discuss hydrogen bonding. It veers off and on from what the topic is supposed to be. It would be more helpful to cut to the chase and leave the lengthly prose out of the book. As another reviewer pointed out, the fact that the book has so many different authors is just ASKING for the final product to be inconsistent. This book is not worth the 120 dollars they expect you to pay for it. 1 stars (Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life) - This book is far too wordy and repetitive and could have been half as thick. It weights over 4 pounds and is very heavy to carry around.Very often the point of a sentence is lost in the verbiage. Some basic explanations are repeated several times, whilst many more important things are left unexplained. Many of the pictures appear to have been chosen because they are 'cool' rather than relevant to the text and just sidetrack the reader.Some of the examples are incredibly stupid. One, at p. 18, under the heading, "Critical Thinking", 2., gives the story of a turkey that learned to equate footsteps with the provision of food. One one day the footsteps led to the turkey having its head chopped off. The text explains that the turkey learned the hard way. In fact the turkey learned nothing, as by then it was dead.The glossary is inadequate and misses out too many new and important terms. The answers given to the quizzes do not always agree with the text, for example, Chapter 2 Self Quiz Question 1 asks what charge is carried by an electron. The correct answer, as given at page 24, is "Negative," but the answer list in Appendix III gives it incorrectly as "Positive." Many instructors lift questions and answers from the book for on-line exams. Does the student then give the incorrect answer as per Appendix III to get the point or the correct answer, knowing that it will very likely be graded as "wrong"? Another example is in the quiz to Chapter 5, question 2.Looking at the list of credits, it lookas if too many people have had a hand in the book and as a result it has been spoilt. I would not recommend this book.
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