This engaging and helpful book is both a thoughtful celebration of the learning process and a practical guide to becoming a better student. Written by... the authors of the acclaimed Elements of Teaching, it is designed to help students of all ages -- particularly high school and college students -- attain their full potential for success in any area of study.James M. Banner, Jr., and Harold C. Cannon explore the qualities needed to get the most out of education: industry, enthusiasm, pleasure, curiosity, aspiration, imagination, self-discipline, civility, cooperation, honesty, and initiative. For each of these elements they offer general reflections, useful suggestions, and a description of a fictional student who either embodies or lacks these qualities. The second part of the book helps students understand the environment in which they learn, by focusing on such topics as teachers, the curriculum, ways of learning, and the transition from school to college. The core points of the text are reinforced by answers to questions that haunt students, as well as tips on what to do to become the best student possible. Throughout, the authors encourage students to consider learning as part of their lives and to be active participants in their own education.

Discover Biology helps students become biologically literate students—to progress from science to scientific literacy.Written from the ground up for... nonmajors, Discover Biology is the only introductory biology textbook to present consistently applied features in each chapter that not only demonstrate biology’s everyday relevance, but teach students how to move from simply understanding core biological concepts to actively applying those concepts to our rapidly changing world. Discover Biology helps students become biologically literate students—to progress from science to scientific literacy.

From science to scientific literacy.Discover Biology makes biology relevant to students’ everyday lives by helping them overcome the big challenges... they face—their own apathy about science and the overwhelming amount of information they have to learn in the course. Discover Biology was developed to overcome these challenges and achieve the ultimate goal of every non-majors course—to make students more scientifically literate citizens and voters.

From science to scientific literacy.Discover Biology makes biology relevant to students’ everyday lives by helping them overcome the big challenges... they face—their own apathy about science and the overwhelming amount of information they have to learn in the course. Discover Biology was developed to overcome these challenges and achieve the ultimate goal of every non-majors course—to make students more scientifically literate citizens and voters.

Discover Biology helps students become biologically literate students—to progress from science to scientific literacy.Written from the ground up... for nonmajors, Discover Biology is the only introductory biology textbook to present consistently applied features in each chapter that not only demonstrate biology’s everyday relevance, but teach students how to move from simply understanding core biological concepts to actively applying those concepts to our rapidly changing world.