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The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, Fourth Edition

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I am reading the book in conjunction with The Teaching Company's "The Joy of Science," which is presented by the Professor Hazen. The purpose of both is give you a background in the sciences-Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Biology-to make you scientifically literate for today's technical world. This sounds impossible because of the scope of the task. However through clear writing, examples found in the everyday world and excllent illustrations they achieve their goal.

The book is geared for a nontechnical person. It is not designed to prepare someone to be a scientist or engineer. Thus the authors keep the mathematics to a minimum. The book is very readable. As a result of the book I now understand the basics of relativity and genetics. Both are areas I had trouble before.

As a business major, satisfying a Science requirement, I have found this book to be informative, interesting and great fun. I believe it to be will written and thorough. Information is wonderfully balanced by illustrations, fyi's and interesting supplemental facts. I have one significant complaint to register with the authors/publishers of this text. The review and discussion questions should be answered either at the end of the book or in the review book. It is extremely disappointing that these answers are not available. As a student with a 3.86 average, I take my education very seriously and find it discouraging and somewhat insulting that I can not check my own work. I would STRONGLY suggest that those answers are made available within the text or on web. Thanks!

The book covers a lot of subjects with the intention of providing a basic aproach to science. There are some lack of precise characterization of important concepts. For instance, it confuses heat with internal energy ( not heat as energy in transit). Also it does not defines mass adequatetly as a measure of inertia, which may cause confusion when one studies relativity. These were problems detected at first sight. I suggest to by, through Amazon, "Integrated Science", by Tillery, Enger and Roos, from Mc Graw Hill, to get a general view of fundamental science with a more clear, and rigorous definition of terms.

the two are almost identical except that the 5th edition has a fancier cover. the chapters and information in the chapters are the same, save yourself about 60 dollars and buy this version! quit getting jipped by these book makers!

This is a great book to review a former Physics course or simply learn physics today. I recomment it highly.

I really like how the book is set up. I am using the book for a science class and it has seemed to be very helpful and easy to understand so far. The goal of the book is to show how the main types of science are integrated and can be studied together. Like I said, it is easy to read there are questions at the end of every chapter for better understanding. A glossary is also included in the back. I have the 5th edition

The book got to me a week before my classes started so I'm very glad and impressed on how fast they sent it. Thank you

This is a great text for one who doesnt know much about science, broken into easy to read chapters and topics.

This book is easy to read, but detailed oriented. This book is worth buying, because I was satisfied with its presentations of its contents and/or subjects, as well as the book's structure.


If science is your true love, then I would recommended buying this book!

I had to take the class that required this book two times and the second time, they had upgraded from the 4th edition to this 5th edition. So I went out and bought this new 5th edition only to find out when I got to class that the only real difference between the two books was that the chapters were in a different order, all of the chapter headings were the same! Waste of money, just buy the 4th edition.
The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, Fourth Edition