Customer Reviews

Biology

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book has beautiful pictures, outstanding explanations, and is wonderfully organized. I highly recommend this book for as an intro to biology.

The only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is the CD it comes with is only for show. The only thing the CD does is connect you to the internet, it has no media and is basically just a piece of plastic to make the book more attractive as those of us without the internet can't use it, and those of us with the internet don't need it since the website is already there.

This book was labeled as BIOLOGY with CD-ROM - but the CD-ROM was missing when we got the book. Where as one of our friends ordered the same book from a different vendor and got the book with CD-ROM and in a better condition. First time we are disappointed with AMAZON purchase.

I needed this book for a college biology class that I was taking and it is more detailed than other biology books I've used. The CD it came with really helps with learning and understanding the material.

the book was in perfect condition the only thing was that it took more than week for me get it.

Do not ever purchase anything from this seller. I purchased the book on line but never received it. I sent the seller four or five e-mails and never heard back from her. I also contacted Amazon and they said there was nothing they could do to help me with this matter.

This is the worst service I have ever had with Amazon.

Just a quick comment. My friend is using this book for her Biology course, and while glancing over at page 72, I notice a diagram of a centrifuge at the top of the page. The diagram has arrows pointing away from the center of the centrifuge labeled "centrifugal force." Now, in high school physics, I was taught that this is not really a force, and the correct term is the centripetal force, which pushes the object toward the center of the circle of rotation. The object pushing back is simply a reactive force, not a force in and of itself.

I find it a little sad that a college textbook would include a confusing term like this. Hopefully this is one of few errors in the book, and does not reflect on the overall quality of the text.