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In this media edition of Miller's ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, a NEW Student CD-ROM, Interactive Concepts in Environmental Science has been added and is automatically packaged with every new copy of the text! This groundbreaking addition integrates nearly 100 engaging animations and interactions with chapter summaries, flashcards, and Web based quizzes. Organized by chapter, students will find links to relevant resources, narrated animations, interactive figures and prompts to review material and test themselves. This 9th Edition/Media Edition covers the latest developments in environmental science and environmental science education. Designed as a foundational text, Miller's flexible book is adaptable to almost any approach, and is the most widely embraced approach to environmental science in print today. With fair and balanced coverage and Internet tools integrated throughout, the book features an extensively developed art program, writing that communicates scientific information clearly and effectively, and the most current coverage of the subject. The book's flexible organization means that it can be adapted to fit almost any syllabus. Miller's more than thirty years of research and teaching expertise make this the definitive book on the subject. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: WORKING WITH THE EARTH, Ninth Edition Media Edition is a concise alternative to G. Tyler Miller's best-selling text LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, which redefines the environmental science course and sets the standard by which every other book for this course is judged.
Intended for environmental science, environmental biology and human ecology courses, this book is a comprehensive revision with an update of each chapter. It uses basic scientific concepts to show how global, national, and local environmental facts, problems, and possible solutions are related and discusses and evaluates opposing sides of major environmental issues and treatments. The text emphasizes energy as an integrating concept, presenting a sustainable-Earth world view and a realistically hopeful attitude. 10,000 references and 200 specialist reviewers document and support the text.
This concise, inexpensive text covers all major topics found in Miller's longer texts (Living in the Environment and Environmental Science) but in less detail. It provides an integrated approach emphasizing solutions and distilling the key concepts in environmental science to offer students the basic material for half the price of other environmental science texts. Miller treats environmental science as an interdisciplinary study, combining ideas and information from the natural sciences (including biology, chemistry, and geology), and the social sciences (economics and politics), along with ethical perspectives to give students a truly multidimensional picture of how environmental systems are interconnected. Miller's environmental science texts have been used by millions of students throughout the country and outsell all other environmental science texts.