Customer Reviews

Essential Biology, 3rd Edition (Campbell Biology Websites)

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Campbell and Reece are best known as the authors of the hefty and excellent "Biology", now in it's 6th edition used by undegraduate biology majors and AP Biology students.

"Essential Biology" uses a different approach. The authors have packed a great deal into this amazingly small textbook. I recently reviewed a huge number of introductory biology texts for adoption in our school district. We use Campbell and Reece's Biology, 6th edition for our AP biology course but were looking for a textbook to use with our 9th grade honors biology students.

After a lengthy comparison of textbooks we picked "Essential Biology" based on several things. First we found the book to be accurate, readable, and concise. We felt that it would give the students a depth of understanding in the core biological principles so that they would be ready when they moved on to AP biology later in their high school career.

Instead of trying to "cover" everything under the biological sun, "Essential Biology" focuses on four core biological topics: cells, genetics, evolution, and ecology. It's 20 chapters are broken up into these 4 units and does a wonderful job of pulling it all together.

Other textbooks certainly cover more material but with less depth. What is the use of having a huge textbook that the students either never finish or rush through with no real understanding? This is a textbook that the students can dig into and throughly understand during one course.

It is supported by CD-ROM's and on-line material. The website provides activities, on-line labs, quizes, and other practice. Students can print out results or e-mail them to their teachers.

I would recommend this text as one for use in a non-majors biology course or as an advanced high school biology introductory course.

The book is in great condition. I received the book in time for my class. I will purchase from here again!!!

It was good cuz it came cheap and bad because there was a lot of highlighting in the book. The condition wasn't that bad but the highlighting was excessive. Other than that it was a good deal!!

I received my book fast and in great condition! i got exactly what i ordered and i am very satisfied!

It was a required book for a college biology class. Not much else I can say about it, it did the job it was designed to do.

I needed this book for school, otherwise I would not have purchased it. However, the book is well written and has some nice pictures.

Well I never got the book, their is a mix up in post office they said it was delivered but I never got it. Post office couldn't do anything and the seller couldn't do anything!!! So I guess that sucks for me!!! Seller did get back to me and try to resolve the issue but they couldn't do anything. I didn't pursue this issue because thankfully the book only cost 20 dollars but I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.

Just what I wanted. Great reading and thanks to Amazon I found and ordered the book!

LaSonya Massey

I purchased the book at a great price and it arrived within a few days!

textbook was very worn, not in good condition for what it was described and what i paid for. this is the first time this has happened when ordering through amazon.