Life: The Science of Biology

by David E. Sadava, H. Craig Heller, Gordon H. Orians

Co-published by Sinauer Associates, Inc., and W. H. Freeman and Company.  Visit the  Life, Eighth Edition preview site.

 

LIFE HAS EVOLVED. . . from its original publication to this dramatically revitalized Eighth Edition. LIFE has always shown students how biology works, offering an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals of biology by describing the landmark experiments that revealed them. This edition builds on those strengths and introduces several innovations.



As with previous editions, the Eighth Edition will also be available in three paperback volumes:
  • Volume I: The Cell and Heredity, Chapters 1-20
  • Volume II: Evolution, Diversity and Ecology, Chapters 1, 21-33, 52-57
  • Volume III: Plants and Animals, Chapters 1, 34-51

Genres: Science, Biology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference, Ebooks, School

1121 pages, Hardcover

First published December 5, 2006

About the author

David E. Sadava is the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at the Keck Science Center of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps, three of The Claremont Colleges. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center. Twice winner of the Huntoon Award for superior teaching, Dr. Sadava has taught courses on introductory biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, plant biology, and cancer biology. In addition to Life: The Science of Biology, he is the author or coauthor of books on cell biology and on plants, genes, and crop biotechnology. His research has resulted in many papers coauthored with his students, on topics ranging from plant biochemistry to pharmacology of narcotic analgesics to human genetic diseases.

Reviews

[Ami Iida · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book of molecular biology
Required reading
And to read molecular biology core text from beginner

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm being optimistic. Of course, if I don't get at least a B- in this class, it's the books fault not mine which will justify a revision of my current rating from five starts to three.

[Ozan Selçuk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Biyoloji hakkında çoook geniş bir kitap, en olarak. Ama güzel okunuyor.

[Saurabh Jha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Before this book, my little exposure to biology was when I was in high school about 15 years back.

I did not read the complete book as it is too big to be finished in a year. I went through the biochemistry and genomics sections to build my background for a study of bioinformatics.

This book is great! My favourite part of this book is how it builds up a context around each concept, as in, how was it discovered, which experiments were performed to study it, and which people were involved. As you read the book, you work your way up to the present. It's a wonderful introduction to how science is done and in particular, how research in biology is done.

I cannot think of any downside of this book.

I supplement reading this book with these lectures https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-int...

[Violetta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summarizes some big, complex subjects well

[Satyaki · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Ky Son · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but not perfect. Chapter 7 should be organize after Chap 16. Cell signalling can only be really appreciate after knowing about the big picture of DNA to protein.

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good introductory text for organismal biology. Just the right amount of detail for a freshman-level course. Diagrams were occasionally very busy, making it difficult to parse.

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice figures. I only scanned a bunch of this one because I was bored in the class but the figures were helpful.

[Audrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read Volumes 2 and 3 for Biology 2. Biology 1 (Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology) used a different textbook.

[Becky McWilliams Guinness · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the book that got me through university! I did Zoology but it would be good for any biology based course.

[Sallyanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helped Aced my bio class, and many more to come.

[Rizwan]

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[Al-Waleed Al-Battshi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Abit detailed, amazing, well illustrated, interesting, interactive.

[Lina]

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