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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 570 EAN: 9780805371468 Edition: 7th ISBN: 080537146X Label: Benjamin Cummings Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1312 Publication Date: December 23, 2004 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Studio: Benjamin Cummings
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  - GreatGood Condition, no scratches, pages perfect, slightly bent corner of the cover but nothhing big. Fast shipping Rating:  - Biology bookDeceiving description, book was torn and highlighted all over, but description said it was in good condition, price did not match description.. Rating:  - Good book.I bought this book for my Introduction to Biology class. It's quite affordable and I've no intention of selling it back once my course is done. The book is quite heavy, it's got very heavy and durable covers protecting the mammoth of a book. So hauling it to class with me is not really a delight. The CD that comes with it is alright but I rarely really look at it. Most of the content is online. You can pretty much read the whole book online, if you have the access code, which comes with this book. The material itself is excellent. The illustrations, all are very well done. I doubt that many people are haplessly looking for a book on Biology, if you're looking at this it is probably because you need one for your class. Either way, this book is definitely worth the low price it is selling for. Rating: - Regarding Science-Ejected Vitalism, 2004:Vitalism is a profoundly science-ejected concept, though many CAM or 'natural health' cabals falsely claim that vitalism survives scientific scrutiny. I quote: "[historically] the new discipline of organic chemistry was first built on a foundation of vitalism, the belief in a life force outside the jurisdiction of physical and chemical laws. Chemists began to chip away at the foundation of vitalism when they learned to synthesize organic compounds in their laboratories [...e.g.] Wohler [...] made urea [...] Kolbe [...made] acetic acid [...] the foundation of vitalism finally crumbled after several more decades [...when] Miller [...] helped bring the abiotic (nonliving) synthesis of organic compounds into the context of evolution [...] the[se] pioneers of organic chemistry helped shift the mainstream of biological thought from vitalism to mechanism, the view that natural phenomena, including the processes of life, are governed by physical and chemical laws [...] the same rules of chemistry apply to inorganic and organic molecules alike. The foundation of organic chemistry is not some intangible life force, but the unique chemical versatility of the element carbon [p.059]." -r.c. Rating: - Very satisfied....The book I ordered arrived very quickly.... It was packaged very well and therefore arrived in excellent condition.... I paid a few dollars extra for expedited shipping and it was well worth it.... I am 100% satisfied with my purchase and will definitely order from Amazon in the future. Thanks again!! |
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