By Michèle Shuster, Janet Vigna, Gunjan Sinha, Matthew Tontonoz
From the groundbreaking partnership of W. H. Freeman and clinical American comes this special creation to the technology of biology and its influence at the manner we are living. In Biology for a altering global, skilled educators and a technology journalist discover the middle rules of biology via a sequence of chapters written and illustrated within the type of a systematic American article. Chapters don’t simply characteristic compelling tales of genuine people—each bankruptcy is a newsworthy tale that serves as a context for masking the normal curriculum for the non-majors biology path. up-to-date all through, the hot variation deals new tales, extra body structure chapters, a brand new digital Instructor's consultant, and new pedagogy.
About the Author
Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., is an affiliate professor within the biology division at New Mexico kingdom college in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She makes a speciality of the scholarship of training and studying, learning introductory biology, microbiology, and melanoma biology periods on the undergraduate point, in addition to engaged on a number of K–12 technology education schemes. Michèle is an energetic player in courses that offer mentoring in medical instructing to postdoctoral fellows, getting ready the following new release of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of various instructing awards, together with a the Westhafer award for educating Excellence at NMSU. Michèle acquired her Ph.D. from the Sackler college of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts collage tuition of drugs, the place she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.
Janet Vigna, Ph.D., is an affiliate professor within the biology division at Grand Valley nation collage in Allendale, Michigan. She is a technology schooling professional in
the built-in technology software, education and mentoring K–12 technological know-how academics. Janet has 18 years of undergraduate educating event, with a unique curiosity in successfully instructing biology to nonmajors. She has lately been well-known with the GVSU awesome instructor Award. Her scholarly pursuits contain biology curriculum improvement, the powerful use of electronic media in technological know-how schooling, and learn at the results of organic insecticides on amphibian communities.She bought her Ph.D. in microbiology from the collage of Iowa.
Matthew Tontonoz has been a improvement editor for textbooks in introductory biology, cellphone biology, biochemistry, evolution, and environmental technological know-how. After a quick stint in clinical institution in California, he discovered he used to be higher fitted to saving sentences than saving lives. He got his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan collage and his M.A. within the background and sociology of technology from the collage of Pennsylvania. he's at present employees technological know-how author on the melanoma examine Institute, the place he covers advances in melanoma immunology and blogs in regards to the heritage of medicine.
Gunjan Sinha has been writing approximately technological know-how for over a decade. Her articles were released in technological know-how, Nature medication, Nature Biotechnology, medical American, and several magazines and journals. She holds a graduate measure in molecular genetics from the collage of Glasgow, Scotland and a graduate measure in journalism from big apple college. She presently works as a contract technological know-how journalist and lives in Berlin, Germany.
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