Scientific American Nutrition for a Changing World


Book Description

Nutrition for a Changing World engages students like no other nutrition textbook. Real stories – about real people and real science – are integrated into every chapter, bringing context and relevance to the core science. Infographics in the style of Scientific American magazine are like “science storyboards” that guide students step-by-step through essential processes and concepts. Coverage of timely topics such as gluten-free diets, the diabetes epidemic, and global nutrition exemplify the book’s contemporary approach to nutrition science. Nutrition for Changing World is also the only product for the course to offer automatically graded diet analysis activities. AnalyzeMyDiet provides both a diet tracker and personalized, auto-graded diet analysis activities built to cover a standard 3- to 7-day diet analysis assignment, freeing instructors from hand-grading these projects.




Scientific American: Presenting Psychology


Book Description

Written by two teachers and a science journalist, Presenting Psychology introduces the basics to psychology through magazine-style profiles and video interviews of real people, whose stories provide compelling contexts for the field’s key ideas.







Environmental Science for a Changing World (Canadian Edition)


Book Description

Environmental Science for a Changing World captivates students with real-world stories while exploring the science concepts in context. Engaging stories plus vivid photos and infographics make the content relevant and visually enticing. The result is a text that emphasizes environmental, scientific, and information literacies in a way that engages students.




Biology for a Changing World


Book Description

From the groundbreaking partnership of W. H. Freeman and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its impact on the way we live. In Biology for a Changing World, two experienced educators and a science journalist explore the core ideas of biology through a series of chapters written and illustrated in the style of a Scientific American article. Chapters don’t just feature compelling stories of real people—each chapter is a newsworthy story that serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors biology course. Updated throughout, the new edition offers new stories, additional physiology chapters, a new electronic Instructor's Guide, and new pedagogy.




Current Issues in Biology Volume 6


Book Description

Give your students the best of both worlds--accessible, dynamic, relevant articles from Scientific American magazine that present key issues in biology, paired with the authority, reliability, and clarity of Pearson's biology texts. Articles cover current topics in biology like Traces of a Distant Past, Conservation for the People, Why Migraines Strike, Your Cells are My Cells, No-Till: the Quiet Revolution, Diet Advice from DNA?, and more. Questions at the end of each article help students check their comprehension and see the connections between science and society. Each volume is available at no additional charge when packaged with a new text.




The World Book Encyclopedia


Book Description

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.