Biology [Paperback]

Neil A. Campbell (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1165 pages
• Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co.,Subs. of Addison Wesley Longman,US; 2nd edition (April 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805318003
• ISBN-13: 978-0805318005
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,195,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is NOT a textbook - this is BIOLOGY!, September 25, 2001

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Dr. Michael Kormann - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biology (Paperback)

I'm a biology student from Germany, main subject is genetics. Really, I can't understand all the discussion about the book, if you take it as it is - this book tells you about BIOLOGY!
It's NOT a detailed textbook, which - if including all the topics mentioned in Campbell - definitely would have 100.000 pages and more!! It's NOT a textbook about biochemistry, nor about genetics, nor about any other special subject!
It IS a wonderful illustrated (even in the german version), colourful, widespread and didactical brilliant written book about its topic: biology.
I bought the book and look upon it with a crying eye, because I'm not able to read it in an appropriate time, I'm quite busy with exams and the book is not useful for preparation for diploma or other university examinations.
But there's something I learned: as a student you learn so many things in detail out of more or less sterile books, so it might be possible that you lose the thread to the real beauty your subject consists of! What means detail without the whole? It feels good, it really feels good to reflect about the deep beauty and expanse of biology with this book; just take an hour or two a week, put your Stryer, Voet, Alberts, Griffiths and whatever textbook DOWN and open the Campbell. You will see, you breath again. And you'll get some power back - for studying the real detailed things. ...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for AP Bioloogy, March 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Biology (Paperback)

As a high school student this book is no easy read and it is far from the most exciting thing I've read, but it provided me with such as wealth of knowledge that I highly recommend this book. It prepared me well for the AP exam.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great bio text book, January 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Biology (Paperback)

We used Campbell's Biology in our AP Bio Class in Highschool. It has some simpler explanations as well as better graphics/cartoons than what I use now (in intro level bio at college) which is Purves & Orions "Life: The Science of Biology". This is definitely my book of choice.