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, the fifth edition has thoroughly updated content bringing the most up-to-date coverage to the students in all five disciplines. The fifth edition marks the first time Wiley Plus is available with The Sciences - providing the text with an additional dimension in which students can, among other things, do homework and solve problems that relate to the science disciplines covered.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Science: A way of Knowing. Chapter 2. The Ordered Universe. Chapter 3. Energy. Chapter 4. Heat and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Chapter 5. Electricity and Magnetism. Chapter 6. Electromagnetic Radiation. Chapter 7. Albert Einstein and the Theory of relativity. Chapter 8. The Atom. Chapter 9. Quantum Mechanics. Chapter 10. Atoms in Combination: The Chemical Bond. Chapter 11. Properties of Materials. Chapter 12. The Nucleus of the Atom. Chapter 13. The Ultimate Structure of Matter. Chapter 14. The Stars. Chapter 15. Cosmology. Chapter 16. The Earth and Other Planets. Chapter 17. Plate Tectonics. Chapter 18. Cycles of the Earth. Chapter 19. Ecology, Ecosystems, and the Environment. Chapter 20. Strategies of Life. Chapter 21. The Living Cell. Chapter 22. Molecules of Life. Chapter 23. Classical and Modern Genetics. Chapter 24. The New Science of Life. Chapter 25. Evolution.