Amazon.com description: Product Description: This new textbook is designed for non-specialist courses in biology or life sciences. It covers all aspects of the discipline from cells and organisms to population and ecology. "Discover Biology" should enable students taking the course to understand basic biological ideas and real-world applications of biology, enabling them intelligently to approach issues reported in the press or experienced in their daily lives. Its major strength is its ability to cover the concepts without losing students in a mass of detail.