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A solid text with all the key coverage needed the 7th edition of The Sciences: An Integrated Approach focuses on updated information on the science, examples and integration. Additionally, the new issue includes additional virtual labs, updated end-of-chapter activities, extensively revised biology coverage and online, stepped-out math problems to reinforce problem solving and integration of information.
More features in this new edition include: emphasized themes and relationships important for informed citizens, the "Great Ideas of Science"; increased emphasis on using visuals to help connect with the great ideas of science and learn key concepts; real-world connections: NEW Current events/"In the News" cases; tools to help understand the basics: In-text pedagogy and new "Stepped problems" to answer those "Big Questions" in science, new animations/online labs; and updated Discovery Labs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 SCIENCE: A WAY OF KNOWING
- 2 THE ORDERED UNIVERSE
- 3 ENERGY
- 4 HEAT AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
- 5 ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
- 6 WAVES AND ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
- 7 ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- 8 THE ATOM
- 9 QUANTUM MECHANICS
- 10 ATOMS IN COMBINATION: THE CHEMICAL BOND
- 11 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
- 12 THE NUCLEUS OF THE ATOM
- 13 THE ULTIMATE STRUCTURE OF MATTER
- 14 THE STARS
- 15 COSMOLOGY
- 16 EARTH AND OTHER PLANETS
- 17 PLATE TECTONICS
- 18 EARTH’S MANY CYCLES
- 19 ECOLOGY, ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- 20 STRATEGIES OF LIFE
- 21 THE LIVING CELL
- 22 MOLECULES OF LIFE
- 23 CLASSICAL AND MODERN GENETICS
- 24 THE NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE
- 25 EVOLUTION
- A HUMAN ANATOMY
- B UNITS AND NUMBERS
- C THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
- D SELECTED PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND ASTRONOMICAL DATA
- E PROPERTIES OF THE PLANETS
- F THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
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