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Life, by David E. Sadava et al., is a 1983 biological science textbook, under continual revision, used at many colleges and universities around the United States of America. [1] As of 2024, it is in its twelfth edition. It is published by W.H. Freeman through MacMillan Learning.
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Elms occur often in pastoral poetry, where they symbolise the idyllic life, their shade being mentioned as a place of special coolness and peace. In the first Idyll of Theocritus (third century BC), for example, the goatherd invites the shepherd to sit "here beneath the elm" ("δεῦρ' ὑπὸ τὰν πτελέαν") and sing.
Though Cleveland was an industrial city, his home was situated near a farm and forested park with views of Lake Erie, so that he grew up in an "idyllic environment", surrounded by nature. Brock's father, who had never received a formal education, had encouraged Brock to pursue university, and taught Brock how to assemble electrical equipment.
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life is an introductory textbook of biology, for students. [further explanation needed] The fifteenth edition was published in 2019, by Cengage Learning. It was compiled by Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart with pictures and illustrations by Lisa Starr.
In Real Life: Nature’s Reboot Humans have now altered virtually every ecosystem on the planet, fueling extinction rates tens to hundreds of times higher than any point in the last 10 million years.
Want to enjoy the outdoors without venturing outside the city? Many American metropolises have carved out space for wildlife, plants, trails, and waterfalls, along with art, observatories, farmers ...
A closely related approach, relational biology, is concerned mainly with understanding life processes in terms of the most important relations, and categories of such relations among the essential functional components of organisms; for multicellular organisms, this has been defined as "categorical biology", or a model representation of ...