Glencoe Biology, Student Edition

by McGraw-Hill Education, Whitney Crispen Hagins, William G. Holliday

Glencoe Biology helps all students succeed with its organization around major Themes, Big Ideas, and Main Ideas of biology and its strong support for reading comprehension. This program’s comprehensive content is made relevant to students through engaging real-world contexts. A wide variety of lab experiences builds strong inquiry skills. The abundance of differentiated instructional strategies helps teachers reach all learners. Seamlessly integrated technology allows teachers to save time and increase productivity.

Genres: Science, Biology, Nonfiction, Textbooks

1248 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

McGraw-Hill Education traces its history back to 1888 when James H. McGraw, co-founder of the company, purchased the American Journal of Railway Appliances. He continued to add further publications, eventually establishing The McGraw Publishing Company in 1899. His co-founder, John A. Hill, had also produced several technical and trade publications and in 1902 formed his own business, The Hill Publishing Company.

In 1909 both men agreed upon an alliance and combined the book departments of their publishing companies into The McGraw-Hill Book Company. John Hill served as President, with James McGraw as Vice-President. 1917 saw the merger of the remaining parts of each business into The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc.

Reviews

[Luis EGV · Rating 4 out of 5]

One day I gave myself the task to read this from start to finish. Since the textbook is very big and contains a lot of information, it took me a long while to finish reading it. After reading all chapters and further researching concepts and facts that interested me, I can say that this book is an amazing foundation of what biology is. It gives a good amount of information on the most important biological concepts and branches, and the pictures and examples are shown are extremely well taken (Thank you Nat Geo :) )

The only negative aspect I found about this book was that it delved a lot more into the DNA and genetics chapters as opposed to other interesting chapters like the last ones (medical and body-related chapters). I mean it makes sense that this book would focus a lot on DNA, after all it's the building block of life, but I still felt like they could have tried to balance this a bit more.

[Kimberly Hallahan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book for its thoroughness, attractive and informative photos and graphics, instruction in study habits, and review/assessment material.