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Biology: Concepts and Connections invites readers into the world of biology with a new revision of this best-selling text. It is known for scientific accuracy and currency; a modular presentation that helps readers to focus on the main concepts; and art that teaches better than any other book.
Biology: Exploring Life, THE LIFE OF THE CELL, The Chemical Basis of Life, The Molecules of Cells, A Tour of the Cell, The Working Cell, How Cells Harvest Chemical Energy, Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food, CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS, The Cellular Basis of Reproduction and Inheritance, Patterns of Inheritance, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Control of Gene Expression, DNA Technology and Genomics, CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION, How Populations Evolve, The Origin of Species, Tracing Evolutionary History, THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists, Plants, Fungi, and the Colonization of Land, The Evolution of Animal Diversity, Human Evolution, ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function, Nutrition and Digestion, Gas Exchange, Circulation, The Immune System, Control of the Internal Environment, Chemical Regulation, Reproduction and Embryonic Development, Nervous Systems, The Senses, How Animals Move, PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Plant Structure, Reproduction, and Development, Plant Nutrition and Transport, Control Systems in Plants, ECOLOGY, The Biosphere: An Introduction to Earth's Diverse Environments, Behavioral Adaptations to the Environment, Population Dynamics, Communities and Ecosystems, Conservation Biology
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Good introductory biology text.......2007-08-24
This is a great text for anyone taking an introductory college-level biology course. The writing style is simple and easy to understand, unlike many other science textbooks. Despite being very easy to read, it contains a good amount of information.
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Above and Beyond Other Textbooks.......2007-01-17
This is a fabulous textbook. The descriptions are clear and there is always a picture following in case you are a visual learner. The greatest thing about this book is that it provides so many ways to study. The book has a website and a CD rom, where you can read the book, do very helpful activities, hear MP3 tutor sessions with the author and more. If you don't understand something, there are so many ways to study it, that it won't take long before you will.
What a Savings!!!.......2006-11-23
When I first purchased this book from my school bookstore, I gulped after looking at their price tag over $130. After returning it and purchansing a used copy from Amazon, I couldn't believe the condition that it was in. It was "like new" just the way my seller claimed it to be.
I feel educated every time I use this book..........2006-03-11
This is a great book!! I'm an English Lit. major and wanted to focus a bit on science and got myself this book. It's so wonderfully written! It explains very clearly and it has a CD-rom with excercises. Even if you're not taking an intro-biology course this book is useful and easy to use for self study. The book is devided into theme chapters and covers about everything you can think of in the natural world. It's no doubt a very good introduction to further study in biology. I feel educated every time I use this book!
I'd give more than 5 stars if that was possible.
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Biology: Concepts and Connections invites readers into the world of biology with a new revision of this best-selling text. It is known for scientific accuracy and currency; a modular presentation that helps readers to focus on the main concepts; and art that teaches better than any other book. Biology: Exploring Life, THE LIFE OF THE CELL, The Chemical Basis of Life, The Molecules of Cells, A Tour of the Cell, The Working Cell, How Cells Harvest Chemical Energy, Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food, CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS, The Cellular Basis of Reproduction and Inheritance, Patterns of Inheritance, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Control of Gene Expression, DNA Technology and Genomics, CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION, How Populations Evolve, The Origin of Species, Tracing Evolutionary History, THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists, Plants, Fungi, and the Colonization of Land, The Evolution of Animal Diversity, Human Evolution, ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function, Nutrition and Digestion, Gas Exchange, Circulation, The Immune System, Control of the Internal Environment, Chemical Regulation, Reproduction and Embryonic Development, Nervous Systems, The Senses, How Animals Move, PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Plant Structure, Reproduction, and Development, Plant Nutrition and Transport, Control Systems in Plants, ECOLOGY, The Biosphere: An Introduction to Earth's Diverse Environments, Behavioral Adaptations to the Environment, Population Dynamics, Communities and Ecosystems, Conservation Biology For all readers interested in the world of biology.
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Biology: Concepts and Connections invites readers into the world of biology with a new revision of this best-selling text. It is known for scientific accuracy and currency; a modular presentation that helps readers to focus on the main concepts; and art that teaches better than any other book.
Biology: Exploring Life, THE LIFE OF THE CELL, The Chemical Basis of Life, The Molecules of Cells, A Tour of the Cell, The Working Cell, How Cells Harvest Chemical Energy, Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food, CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS, The Cellular Basis of Reproduction and Inheritance, Patterns of Inheritance, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Control of Gene Expression, DNA Technology and Genomics, CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION, How Populations Evolve, The Origin of Species, Tracing Evolutionary History, THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists, Plants, Fungi, and the Colonization of Land, The Evolution of Animal Diversity, Human Evolution, ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function, Nutrition and Digestion, Gas Exchange, Circulation, The Immune System, Control of the Internal Environment, Chemical Regulation, Reproduction and Embryonic Development, Nervous Systems, The Senses, How Animals Move, PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Plant Structure, Reproduction, and Development, Plant Nutrition and Transport, Control Systems in Plants, ECOLOGY, The Biosphere: An Introduction to Earth's Diverse Environments, Behavioral Adaptations to the Environment, Population Dynamics, Communities and Ecosystems, Conservation Biology
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Very good study guide, helped me to learn college biology.......2005-01-09
This is a good biology study guide for college bio. I studied this book along with my biology textbook, which was a little harder to understand--especially subjects on heredity. Liebaert's Student Study Guide for Biology helped me to comprehend subjects in biology at a fast pace--very good for time management since I have like 5 other classes. For really good test questions, I highly recommend "The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanation" vol 1, vol 2, & Vol 3 by Patrick Leonardi. Another additional reference that I also found helpful was Biology: The Easy Way by Gabrielle Edward.
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The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were--lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm.
Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious--and calculating--secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years her senior. She managed to exile Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, who had epilepsy. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of attorney over the author's finances, Lyon nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's life and estate. Fortunately, Twain recognized the plot being woven around him just in time. So rife with twists and turns as to defy belief, the story nonetheless comes to undeniable, vibrant life in the letters and diaries of those who witnessed it firsthand: Katy the housekeeper, Jean, Lyon, and others whose own distinctive, perceptive, often amusing voices take us straight into the heart of the Clemens household.
Just as Twain extricated himself from the lies, prejudice, and self-delusion that almost turned him into an American Lear, so Karen Lystra liberates the author's last decade from a century of popular misunderstanding. In this gripping book we at last see how, late in life, this American icon discovered a deep kinship with his youngest child and continued to explore the precarious balance of love and pain that is one of the trademarks of his work.
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Revisionistic, eye-opening view of Twain's final years.......2006-01-08
Having recently completed Fred Kaplan's "The Singular Mark Twain" and Ron Powers' far better recent biography "Mark Twain: A Life," which each refer to this book, I was delighted to receive a copy for Christmas. As Karen Lystra points out, virtually every biography of Samuel Clemens describes his final years as unremittingly bitter, while the truth is not quite so one-sided. More importantly, unlike biographers who characterize Clemens' eventual attacks on Isabel Lyon, his secretary during most of his final years, and her helpmate and eventual husband, Ralph Ashcroft, as hyperbolic fantasies, Lystra takes Clemens at his word. She details how Lyon and Ashcroft insinuated themselves into Clemens' world, preying on his loneliness and enormous ego to give themselves power and legal authority over his affairs. Most powerful of all, Lystra focuses as no one else ever has on Clemens' youngest daughter, Jean, including both the heartbreaking story of the prejudice she faced because of her epilepsy, as well as how her father abandoned her. Although that separation was urged on Clemens by Lyon, who even went so far as to intercept letters Jean wrote to her father begging for his attention and visits, Clemens himself acknowledged some years later, when he fired Lyon and Ashcroft and brought Jean back into his life, that he himself was unforgivably to blame. All of this is told is a way that gives new insights into Clemens and the considerable imperfections that accompanied his unparalleled talent and fame as an American author.
My only complaint -- making this a four- rather than five-star review -- is that Lystra is a pedestrian writer. The book truly comes alive only when she quotes the primary source material -- the diaries of Jean and Clara Clemens, the letters of friends and family, and of course Twain's own autobiographical writings. But she finds wondrous excerpts from all of these to quote, and for that, her thesis, and shining a light on Clemens's failings, this book is a must for anyone who wants to know more about Mark Twain.
Flawed, Yet Powerful Study of Twain's Final Follies.......2005-11-06
Karen Lystra might be the very first scholar to study, systematically, the diaries of Jean Clemens, Mark twain's epileptic daughter whom he kept institutionalized for many years. Jean seems like a lovely young woman, with lots of character and a sweet streak that seems truly remarkable when one considers how awful her life was. (She was the least favored of the three daughters of Samuel and Olivia Clemens, and it seems that her father blamed her somewhat for bringing on the catastrophe in "Livy's" health.) All these matters are gone into with a thoroughness and a sensitivity that makes the book a fine document on illness and social pressure regarding treatment and cure.
What then prevents this book from attaining a higher place on the shelf of Twain scholarship? Somewhere in the years it took to research and write this book, the author seems to have lost her objectivity. That's understandable, but an editor might have helped her to tone down her continuous sneering at Isabel Lyon, Twain's onetime secretary whom Lystra seeks to portray as a combination of Lady Macbeth and Mata Hari. Twain thought highly of Isabel Lyon, but when she married Ralph Ashcroft, one of his financial advisers, he turned on both of them and charged them with embezzlement. Previous scholars have seen this episode as one of Twain embittered, lonely, paranoid and suspicious; and certainly Karen Lystra is within her rights to re-evaluate the evidence and to argue that, indeed, Lyon was an embezzler. But she cannot persuade me that Lyon "schemed" to marry Twain. The evidence just isn't there.
Perhaps Isabel was attracted to him sexually, though Lystra treats Lyon's sexuality as a thing of shame. She used to like to watch Twain half-naked, in his white silk undershorts; but maybe the age difference between them (nearly thirty years) disgusts Lystra, for she does her best to make this sex attraction repulsive.
Worst of all is her tone and the way she distorts all the evidence, major and minor. In one passage she pokes fun of Isabel's flattery of the Twain family, citing one of Isabel's diary passages in which she compares Clara Clemens to an angel. Excuse me, but a diary entry is not flattery! Flattery is when you tell somebody something nice about themselves which you don't believe! It is not when you write something nice in a secret diary which the other person will never see.
If she can't directly connect Jean's expulsion from Twain's home to Isabel's so-called plots, she will instead say, "Skillful ventriloquists do not move their lips," as if a lack of evidence was itself evidence. No, sorry, it's not.
When Twain turned against Lyon and Ashcroft, he threw himself into writing a diatribe against them that ran to nearly 430 pages. Lystra would have us believe that this is a great piece of writing. The passages she quotes from it are pretty grim. I don't know, maybe it's this King Lear-like late greatness. He seems to have persuaded her, at any rate. Lyon was a "brute," wrote Twain. "Just a plain, simple, heartless brute, and rotten to the spine." She's a prostitute, a buzzard, a superannuated virgin. Well I for one think the story might have been a bit more complex than the one Lystra relates.
Her acidity extends even to the captions of the photos in the middle of the book. Most of the captions are non-judgmental ("Albert Bigelow Paine and Mark Twain playing billiards, 1908"). Then you get to a photo of Isabel, and it's "Isabel Lyon posing dramatically." Get it? The woman can't even tell the truth when she's not even speaking.
I mean the Lyon woman of course.
Mark Twain's moral reckoning.......2004-05-25
This is a fascinating, well written and painstakingly researched book. Finally, a book on our friend Mark Twain that tackles new terrain. It reads like an exciting, suspenseful mystery. Lystra sifts through all the evidence surrounding Twain's last years and his tangled relations with his secretary, Isabel Lyon and his daughters, Clara and Jean. It is sad to read about Twain, the
widower, hungry for love and a real home, succumbing to the flattery and duplicity of his unscrupulous secretary. She schemed to marry him and seperate him from his daughters. She almost succeeded. Plainly, he never would have married her. His unwavering love for his late wife stopped that folly. But she did manage to build a wedge between him and his daughters. Twain was manipulated and lied to and encouraged to give in to his worst weaknesses. This led to his sad betrayal of his epileptic daughter, Jean. It is interesting to compare his wife Olivia with Isabel Lyon. His wife had a powerful strength that belied her often frail health. It is obvious that she brought out many of his best qualities. She was a true helpmate and companion to him. She expected him to live up to his moral and familial responsibilites. She kept him centered and clear thinking - no easy task! Without her as his emotional and moral anchor - he gave in to human weakness and selfishness. Yet, it is inspiring and uplifting to witness him looking deep within himself and unflinchingly recognizing his character faults and their terrible consequences. It is a truly courageous act. He makes amends to his daughter , who he really does love and who loves him. Father and daughter experience happiness during their final days together. You come away from their story with admiration for both of them.
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