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Scientific American Biology for a Changing World with Physiology

Fourth Edition| ©2021 Michele Shuster; Janet Vigna; Matthew Tontonoz

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.

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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.

Available for the first time with Macmillan's new online learning tool, Achieve, Biology for a Changing World explores the core ideas of biology through chapters written and illustrated in the style of a Scientific American article. Chapters don’t just feature compelling stories of real people—each chapter is a newsworthy story that serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors biology course.

Achieve is Macmillan’s new online learning platform that supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding biology content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

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  • Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.

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  • Simulation activities focus on the most challenging concepts in a non-majors biology course. These scaffolded, interactive lessons help students apply the principles they learned from the text or lecture in the context of a relevant "real life" question or familiar scenario.
  • Tutorials give students an opportunity to work through a concept step-by-step, with support through visuals, hints, feedback, and links to the ebook. The tutorials can be assigned standalone, but they were also developed as a way to prepare students for the simulations.
  • Pre-built and curated homework assignments are simple and easy to assign to students and can be customized by the instructor. They include homework questions featuring hints, error-specific feedback, and solutions to provide a powerful formative assessment experience for students.
  • Animations are embedded directly with associated assessment problems to help students easily access these powerful visualization tools as they work through their assignments. These animations are also available to instructors in Powerpoint slides for use in the classroom.

Features of the text include:

  • Each chapter of Biology for a Changing World is written in the style of a Scientific American article. This story-based approach grabs student interest and teaches the relevance of biology and why it matters to students.
  • Engaging and informative Infographics are used throughout the book. These powerful pieces of art teach students how to learn from charts, graphs, and images, and add visual appeal to the science. Many of the infographics are animated with corresponding quiz questions in LaunchPad.
  • Milestone mini-chapters highlight historically important discoveries in biology. These present biology as a living science by teaching students how we know what we know, and prompting them to consider how future research will expand our understanding of biology.
  • Driving Questions provide the pedagogical framework for the chapter material by prompting students to consider the questions they need to be able to answer to have a full understanding of the material.
  • End-of-chapter questions, each written by Michele Shuster, are framed around the chapter’s Driving Questions; each EOC set includes Interpreting Data, Mini-Case, and Bring It Home questions to help students develop higher-order thinking skills.

 

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  • Animations are embedded directly with associated assessment problems to help students easily access these powerful visualization tools as they work through their assignments. These animations are also available to instructors in Powerpoint slides for use in the classroom.

Updates to the text:

  • 4 new chapter stories and 1 new milestone
    • Ch 1 Process of Science: Do cell phones cause cancer? A behind the scenes look at a scientific controversy
    • Ch 9: Mutations and Genetic Engineering: New Gene, New Me: Gene therapy offers hope to people with debilitating genetic condition
    • Ch 17 Prokaryotic Diversity: Invisible You: A hidden world of microbes helps make you
    • Ch 22 Ecosystem Ecology: Bringing Bison Back: A controversial plan to rewild the American Prairie
    • New Milestone 8: Pandora’s Dish: The power, promise, and politics of stem cells

  • Sub-heads have been added at the section level to indicate the core science being covered, providing a better pedagogical framework for students.
  • The text design has been modernized and the photo program has been updated to provide a more friendly student experience.
  • Changes were made to the organization to shift coverage in areas that were too broad, e.g. a new Chapter 9 will be dedicated to mutations, formerly covered in an overloaded Chapter 10, which covered mutations and cancer.
  • Ch 23 Global Ecology is now Global Change, with new emphasis on climate change
  • Answers to end of chapter "know it" questions have been added to the back matter

"I have been very satisfied with the current textbook, the concepts are very easy to understand and very enjoyable to teach. The instructor resources for the text are better than other text resources I have used. Overall the response to the text from the students have been positive. The students enjoy the topics or enjoy the stories from each chapter, the pictures are very informative, they like that the definitions are in the margins, and do not feel overwhelmed with content."- Olivia George, University of Hawaii West Oahu

"My students love the Scientific American Biology for a Changing World textbook. They often tell me that they remember certain content based on the "story" told in that particular chapter." -Amy Ryan, Plattsburgh - State University of New York

"The book has been extremely useful in achieving course objectives - Students seem to love it. They're always quoting it back to me." -Ron Barwick, King College

 

 

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Process of Science

Chapter 2: Chemistry of Life

Chapter 3: Cell Structure and Function

Chapter 4: Nutrition, Enzymes, Metabolism

Chapter 5: Energy and Photosynthesis

Chapter 6: Dietary Energy and Cellular Respiration

Chapter 7: DNA Structure and Replication

Chapter 8: Genes to Proteins

Chapter 9: Mutations and Genetic Engineering

Chapter 10: Cell Division and Cancer

Chapter 11: Simple Inheritance and Meiosis

Chapter 12: Complex Inheritance

Chapter 13: Natural Selection and Adaptation

Chapter 14: Nonadaptive Evolution and Speciation

Chapter 15: Evidence for Evolution

Chapter 16:Life on Earth

Chapter 17: Prokaryotic Diversity

Chapter 18: Eukaryotic Diversity

Chapter 19: Human Evolution

Chapter 20: Population Ecology

Chapter 21:Community Ecology

Chapter 22: Ecosystem Ecology

Chapter 23: Global Climate Change

Chapter 24: Plant Growth and Reproduction

Chapter 25: Plant Physiology

Chapter 26: Overview of Physiology

Chapter 27: Digestive System

Chapter 28: Cardiovascular System

Chapter 29: Respiratory System

Chapter 30: Central Nervous System

Chapter 31: Reproductive System

Chapter 32: Immune System

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Michele Shuster

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

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

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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