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For one or two semester courses in Introductory Biology targeting non- and mixed majors. The goal of this text is to provide an engaging and easy to use book with an innovative and interactive media program. It achieves a unique balance in emphasizing concepts without sacrificing scientific accuracy. The new MediaTutor, found at the end of each chapter, integrates the text and media by providing a brief description of the CD or WEB activity and the time requirement for completion. In creating the book and the media package, the authors and Prentice Hall reached out to the biology community - involving educators from around the country to help address the diverse needs of todays students. How do you engage your students and help make biology relevant to them? *NEW - Chapter-opening Case Studies and chapter-ending Case Studies Revisited - Includes Did Dinosaurs Die from Lack of Sunlight? from the chapter on Photosynthesis and Teaching an Old Grain New Tricks from the chapter on Biotechnology. Provides an innovative framework for students to learn and make connections between biological concepts and processes. *Earth Watch/Health Watch essays - Covers biodiversity, ozone depletion/pre
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Regional settlement analysis providing demographic and economic reconstructions of the chiefdoms encountered by the Spanish Conquistadores in the eastern Andean cordillera of Colombia and of the earlier societies from which they sprang. The full regional settlement dataset is provided electronically. Complete text in English and Spanish.
Cómo llega América Latina al siglo XXI. Demografía: ¿amenaza u oportunidad para América Latina?. Geografía y desarrollo en América Latina. Instituciones políticas y gestión pública en América Latina.
La demografía, nacida como un conjunto de técnicas cuantitativas para analizar las variaciones de la población y de los mecanismos que las determinan, ha hecho grandes progresos en las últimas décadas, convirtiéndose en una disciplina capital de las ciencias sociales. El tema central en el estudio de la disciplina es el análisis del sistema demográfico entendido como conjunto, a la vez, de realizaciones que vincula los fenómenos demográficos entre sí en un todo coherente. Fecundidad, nupcialidad, mortalidad y movilidad deben ser analizadas tanto de modo singular como en sus recíprocas interrelaciones que, justamente, determinan las características de cada sistema. Disciplina a c...
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