Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions (with CengageNOW, InfoTrac® 1-Semester Printed Access Card)
Average Rating: out of 13 Reviews
Price: $169.95
Sale: $78.50
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
EAN (European Article Number): 9780495015987
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Author: G. Tyler Miller
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Edition: 15
Dewey Decimal Number: 577
Publication Date: 2006-09-19
Reading Level: 784
Description: G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line--enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students will actually want to read their assignments. The Fifteenth Edition's engaging, streamlined coverage includes over 4,000 updates and new topics; hundreds of new "Thinking About" exercises that engage students in critical thinking about environmental science topics; "Core Case Studies" that reinforce chapter concepts; 127 new photos; and superb, integrated coverage of sustainability! New to this edition for instructors is PowerLecture, a one-stop shop for lecture prep that includes everything you need to create dynamic lectures all in one place.
Details: This book helped alot in my Envirnomental science class, I am glad that I had it, so I could survive this class.
Review Summary: The best of the introductory environmental science texts
Date: 2004-07-11
Details: Of the half-a-dozen environmental science texts I read in preparing a 10th grade environmental science block, this is by far the best written, with the clearest figures. Highly recommended.
Review Summary: Fantastic, educational reading+Dantes exam material
Date: 2004-02-09
Details: I used this book for the DANTES test: Environment and Humanity, it covered everything that was asked on the test and I believe I passed because of it's great detail. It also changed the way I look at the world and how we treat it. Really really educational, I'm glad I was made to read it.
Review Summary: AWESOME TEXT!!
Date: 2003-04-21
Details: This is an awesome text especially for AP students and level 1 and 2 college students! It helped me score a 5 on the AP exam and test out of my first two semesters of Environmental Science.
Review Summary: superb ecology intro....
Date: 2001-11-11
Details: ....and a clearly written blend of ecology, systems theory, and environmental science, with interesting Enrichment sections and Guest Editorials by a variety of influential figures.
I like the "liberal" slant--in other words, the call to quit being the world's biggest consumer and polluter and create a sustainable society with more realistic values than the dream of unlimited expansion--but then I can't think of anything more insane than allowing the world to overheat so the oil empires can go on making money.
Anyway, major sections covered include:
Humans and Nature: An Overview Some Concepts of Ecology Population, Resources, and Pollution Environment and Society
I'm glad I bought mine used; the publisher is nuts for charging this much money for a textbook, no matter how well-crafted.
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