Scientific American Biology for a Changing World with Core Physiology - Softcover

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Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning and teaches introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level, as well as working on several K–12 science education programs. Michèle is involved in mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in effective teaching, preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Westhafer Award for Teaching Excellence at NMSU. Michèle received her Ph.D. from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.

Janet Vigna, Ph.D., is a professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She is a science education specialist in the Integrated Science Program, training and mentoring K–12 science teachers. Janet has 18 years of undergraduate teaching experience, with a special interest in teaching biology effectively to nonmajors. She has recently been recognized with the GVSU Outstanding Teacher Award. Her scholarly interests include biology curriculum development, the effective use of digital media in science education, and research on the effects of biological pesticides on amphibian communities. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa.

Matthew Tontonoz is a science writer and independent scholar living in Brooklyn, New York. For ten years, he was a development editor for textbooks in biology before shifting his focus to writing. He is currently senior science writer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he covers advances in basic science and clinical cancer research. Matt received his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University and his M.A. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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From the groundbreaking partnership of Macmillan Learning and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its impact on the way we live.

Biology for a Changing World explores the core ideas of biology through chapters written and illustrated in the style of a Scientifi c American article. Each chapter is a newsworthy and engaging story that serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors biology course. These magazine-like stories  encourage students to keep reading and to appreciate why biology matters to them and to their world.

The Fourth Edition of Biology for a Changing World is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning system.

New media and assessment features in Achieve include:

• Tutorials give students an opportunity to work through a concept step-by-step, with support provided through visuals, hints, feedback, and links to the e-book.
• Simulation activities focus on the most challenging concepts in a non-majors biology course.
• Pre-built and curated homework assignments are easy to assign and customize. Homework questions feature hints, error-specific feedback, and solutions to provide a powerful formative assessment experience for students.
• Animations are embedded directly into associated quizzes so that students can reference these powerful visualization tools as they work through the questions.