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[Frank E]

"Life"

The Science of Biology.

It's a prettty awesome book.
Anyone using this as a study text for med school entry.

[Arch_Angel]

Used it in my first year of my last degree....pretty simplistic stuff...

No use whatsoever for understanding the complex things, personally I'd say it was a better idea to use wikipedia for the simple stuff and get a book that's a little more specialised in what you're interested in. It's got a lot of population wide animal biology and plants that'll be next to worthless in a practical sense (although worth knowing for its own sake).

It's not cheap either...

[Frank E]

Oops, posting after quiz night.

I'm reading it for higher biology not for medicine, so probably in the wrong forum (should be in candidate books rather than current medical students' books). I didn't have the chance to study biology at school (restricted to 2 sciences and forced to do a social 'science' which was gobshite to me) so it's all pretty new to me and I think it is a pretty goood introduction to biology. I like that the chapters are short and therefore break down the learning into manageable chunks.

Texts for Higher Chemistry, Biology and Human Biology seem pretty thin on the ground. Haven't even seen AP&H texts - is there still a Higher AP&H? Stupid jock separarist education system, what the hell is wrong with the whole of the United Kingdom not doing the same exams, bah!

[markyc]

Hey arch_angel,

Do you think you can pick up a lot of the more basic introduction learning such as animal biology and plants through blogs? I'm trying to keep my costs down and don't want to build a collection of books that will be read once only!