Biology 12th Edition

Best written biology book I have read. My freshman biology course was in 1972 and a career in health sciences made my focus narrow to human biology. This is a great way to get caught up on general biology. It's a beautiful, stimulating, and well-written book with timely reviews in each chapter to consolidate what students of Biology wish to know. Only reading a few chapter per week to make the book last. Why hurry through a gourmet meal? Wish we had books like this back then instead of walls of text. Happy that teaching sciences have progressed along with technological sciences. Congratulations to all the contributors.

right book, great price Much cheaper than campus bookstore. Rented this for around $25 and bought my online code separate...saved a lot of money that way

Still expensive, but it's a college book and all overpriced. Quick shipping.

Book arrived in a timely manner and in good condition

Came like new! No markings, pages were crisp and still had that new book smell!

This book came in a binder with pages ripe out, the pages all messed up, I ordered a hard copy and the pictures shows what I received

I quite honestly feel a little duped on this purchase. This is a very expensive book and this was a better price for it when I shopped quite extensively around for the edition I was hoping to buy. When I shopped around I found there were international versions, etc. that were quite a bit cheaper, but I did not want those as I did not know how it would correlate with my son's college class. I wanted the American newer edition of the book. When I opened the book, the book's cover had been totally redone professionally in a plain (no picture) version, in which there was a professionally styled letter stating that "water damage" had occurred and they had the book professionally rebound, of course removing all of the isbn codes and ways to identify the book's edition. I have sold lots of college books and I have never had books professionally redone for water damage. I felt that that was the easy way to sell international or other versions that you could buy at a much cheaper rate for a better price and no one could prove what you had done. Then they threw in earphones for free to make their customers happy. I still feel conned. The book is nice, but probably not the one I ordered. I am not going to order all the editions to find out either which is why I gave them a 3 star rating. I smell something fishy, but have no proof. Just be careful here if you really need a specific edition of this. My son is going to try to find a classmate that would be willing to let him compare texts with them and then we will know the truth. This might be a one time thing & I am the only one to have this happen, but I sort of doubt it!

Received the book about two days before the actual shipping date. The book was in great condition. The print is the perfect size and the pictures (in book) helped tremendously. Helped me a whole lot in my class.