The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

by Robert M. Hazen and James S. Trefil

Book Overview

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach has been used by over 100,000 students nationwide since it was published and is the leading text on the market for the integrated science course. Unlike any of its competitors, it fully integrates physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology for students with little or no science background. Applauded by students and instructors for its easy-to-read style and detail appropriate for non-science majors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471769924
• ISBN13: 9780471769927
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Review of "The Sciences...." textbook

This book is easy to read, but detailed oriented. This book is worth buying, because I was satisfied with its presentations of its contents and/or subjects, as well as the book's structure. If science is your true love, then I would recommended buying this book!

An excellent textbook on Physics. Excellent service. Thanks.

This is a great book to review a former Physics course or simply learn physics today. I recomment it highly.

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

I really like how the book is set up. I am using the book for a science class and it has seemed to be very helpful and easy to understand so far. The goal of the book is to show how the main types of science are integrated and can be studied together. Like I said, it is easy to read there are questions at the end of every chapter for better understanding. A glossary is also included in the back. I have the 5th edition

Becoming Scientifically Literate in Today's World

I am reading the book in conjunction with The Teaching Company's "The Joy of Science," which is presented by the Professor Hazen. The purpose of both is give you a background in the sciences-Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Biology-to make you scientifically literate for today's technical world. This sounds impossible because of the scope of the task. However through clear writing, examples found in the everyday world and excllent illustrations they achieve their goal. The book is geared for a nontechnical person. It is not designed to prepare someone to be a scientist or engineer. Thus the authors keep the mathematics to a minimum. The book is very readable. As a result of the book I now understand the basics of relativity and genetics. Both are areas I had trouble before.

Great for non-Science major

As a business major, satisfying a Science requirement, I have found this book to be informative, interesting and great fun. I believe it to be will written and thorough. Information is wonderfully balanced by illustrations, fyi's and interesting supplemental facts. I have one significant complaint to register with the authors/publishers of this text. The review and discussion questions should be answered either at the end of the book or in the review book. It is extremely disappointing that these answers are not available. As a student with a 3.86 average, I take my education very seriously and find it discouraging and somewhat insulting that I can not check my own work. I would STRONGLY suggest that those answers are made available within the text or on web. Thanks!