Biology for Life

A Guide to Our Living World

Melanie Peffer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

550 Seiten

2026
Brooks/Cole (Verlag)
978-0-357-97598-5 (ISBN)

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Biology for Life: A Guide to Our Living World is more than just a textbook. It is biology told through our daily experiences. Helping students attain the biology knowledge needed to make informed decisions in our everchanging world starts with helping them to identify biology in their lives. An exclusive partnership with National Geographic makes the text come alive – both with the inclusion of breathtaking images as well as discoveries of National Geographic Explorers from diverse backgrounds. The approach is student-friendly, putting the needs and perspectives of non-majors first. Study tips, coaching, and the author’s own enthusiasm for the topics encourage student engagement and support learning, all with an eye towards answering the often-asked question: “why do I need to know this?”

Dr. Melanie Peffer is a teaching assistant professor and research scientist Level II at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Peffer received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her postdoctoral appointment in Learning Sciences from Georgia State University. Her research focuses on how people learn, understand and engage with biology content. She’s particularly interested in how educational technology like simulations and serious games can assess what people know and believe about the nature of science knowledge. Dr. Peffer is an accomplished writer and science communicator. Her book Biology Everywhere:How the Science of Life Matters to Everyday life won gold in the 2022 Colorado Independent Publisher Awards for educational texts. Thousands of learners from across the world have enrolled in her highly rated massive open online courses, including Biology Everywhere and Designing Effective Science Communication. She also developed a TED-ED lesson, The Artist who won a Nobel Prize...in medicine and gave a TED talk based on her book, How rethinking biology and positively change your life. Dr. Peffer's approach to teaching biology was shaped based on her experiences teaching non-majors biology, interacting with the public, and her background in the learning sciences. To address pervasive dread, fear, and disillusionment with biology content, she teaches science in a manner conducive to human learning and with deliberate and varied connections to the real world. She believes when students see science as applicable and related to their daily lives and experiences, that the material becomes more accessible.

Chapter 1: Invitation to Biology
UNIT 1 NUTRITION (Chemistry of life)
Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Biology
Chapter 3: The Molecules of Life
Chapter 4: Energy Capture and Transformation
UNIT 2 CANCER (Cell Biology)
Chapter 5: The Secret Life of the Cell
Chapter 6: The Cell Cycle and Cancer
UNIT 3 HUMAN REPRODUCTION (Genetics)
Chapter 7: The Central Dogma
Chapter 8: Inheritance
Chapter 9: Biotechnology
UNIT 4 THE MYTH OF BIOLOGICAL RACE (Evolution)
Chapter 10: Evidence for Evolution
Chapter 11: Process of Evolution
Chapter 12: Results of Evolution: The Diversity of Life
UNIT 5 CLIMATE CHANGE (Ecology)
Chapter 13 Population Ecology
Chapter 14 Communities and Ecosystems
Chapter 15 Conservation Biology
Chapter 16 Survey of the Human Body

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Verlagsort	CA
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-357-97598-7 / 0357975987
ISBN-13	978-0-357-97598-5 / 9780357975985
Zustand	Neuware