Rating: 
Summary: Comprehensive and Easy-to-understand
Review: The molecular biology portion ( Ch 1-9 Kreb's Cycle, Calvin Cycle etc.) was a bit lacking due to its confusing terms and bad explanations but the rest (Ch 10-fortysomething was WONDERFUL!The photos and diagrams were an improvement over the previous edition and I can honestly say that the book was straight-forward and easy to follow. It also came with an interactive CD-rom that had chapter reviews, activities, animations, and interactive tests on it which was a tremendous bonus while studying. Each chapter seemed to relate the human world to other animals and plants whice was a good thing because it clearly showed how everything was related in the world.
Rating: 
Summary: Love this book!
Review: This book is absolutely the best text book that I have ever used in my 5+ years of college. Everything is straight forward and the visual aid is awesome.
Rating:
Summary: The Absolute Greatest For High Schoolers
Review: I have never, in all my days, seen a better biology book--its not for the average bear--for high school students. Big, big words and concepts necessary for the Advance Placement Examination. But beware, if you are taking a lower level test, the ideas that this book presents will over prepare you and make you unable to address the ambiguity of lesser level questions. The diagrams and tables are phenomonal and YOU WILL NEVER FIND BETTER ONES _ANYWHERE_. This textbook is nothing short of unbelievable, which would explain the high price, but its worth it.
Rating: 
Summary: 3 stars
Review: I think this book contains some unneccessary details, which is a waste of time for students. Other than that, it's a good book.
Rating:
Summary: An excellent book for undergraduate and advanced high school
Review: Campbell and Reece once again set the standard for undergraduate general biology textbooks. This book is also commonly used and highly recommended for advanced high school biology students. Many Advanced Placement high school biology courses use this text with their students. It is well correlated to the information tested on the AP Biology exam as the writers have had associations with that test themselves. I use another of their new textbooks "Essential Biology" as the text for my 9th grade honors biology students as it does well to prepare them for taking AP Biology in their 11th or 12th grade year.
Rating:
Summary: THE STANDARD FOR MANY DISCERNING LEARNERS
Review: Written by experienced authors, this book has become the (unofficial) standard for many discerning learners. Its coverage of Botany and Zoology: including all those morphological and anatomical details, is overwhelming. The same applies to its accompanying CD-ROM, which bears several test-questions that students should exercise with.
Another endearing feature of this book is the way it simplified all the complex biochemical pathways that it presented.
It is a very impressive text; (only that non-American users may complain that it did not stick to the S.I. units).
Rating:
Summary: This is the best Introductory Biology book
Review: I have a B.S. and M.S. in Biology and taught Intro. Biology Lab for two years, so I know a lot of basic biology. This book is the best for undergraduates to read because not only does it give a complete overview of all the major fields in biology, it also goes into depth when needed. For example, freshmen and sophomores don't need to memorize 1000 different species, they need biology basics like cell biology and biochemistry. This is where the book goes into detail, with the glycolytic pathways, and organelle specializations. This book prepares the way for more advanced texts, such as Cellular and Molecular Immunology and Genes VI.
Rating:
Summary: Great and cheap
Review: This is a great book that costs way less than the 6th edition. The CD has exercises that help students understand the concepts easily.
Rating:
Summary: Great substitute for 6th Ed
Review: Why pay for the 6th edition when you can get this edition for much less? The 6th edition doesn't introduce much of anything new and cost way more.
Rating:
Summary: nice big book
Review: The text is the best on the market. First of all, it's the biggest of all intro biology texts on the market ( exceedingly large book, caught your attention on the first sight). It's also good on the inside. texts were printed in big letters, so don't worry if you are using glasses ( this is a little draw back cause i prefer smaller letters). Seemed i haven't mentioned any thing about its quality on biology. It's quality is UNQUESTIONABLLY THE BEST. Clear, and funny (not to the extreme). The word CLEAR is so vague. So many people used it to describe good works, but the CLEAR i used means it REALLY teaches you the important points.
For example, Protein has four levels of structure. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Blabla... In most other texts, difference between secondary and tertiary structure was not CLEAR. IS the secondary structure cause by hydrogen bonding along the backbone? Are side chains on the amino-acids involved? Other authors made is so UNclear. However Campbell made it clear(though with certain risk of been wrong). Secondary structure is SOLELY cause by hydrogen bonding along the backbone. Tertiary structure is solely caused by interactions of side chains on amino-acids.
I owned three texts: Starr's, Solomon's and Campbell's. The first two have been collecting dust on my book shelf. The third are becoming used.
| 
