È la versione più snella, ma ugualmente rigorosa e completa, pensata per fornire le basi della biologia cellulare e molecolare. È un volume ricco di illustrazioni a colori che facilitano la comprensione. Descrive casi clinici dettagliati. Aggiornato alle tecniche più moderne (CRISPR, RNA-seq) Contiene schemi, box riassuntivi ed esercizi per ogni capitolo. Un approfondimento sulla genetica classica e umana sarà disponibile online entro il 31 luglio. Come hanno fatto le cellule a comparire sulla Terra primordiale, per poi moltiplicarsi e diversificarsi fino a trasformare in un tempo lunghissimo tutto l'ambiente del nostro Pianeta? E ancora, com'è possibile che miliardi di cellule riescano a cooperare e a formare grandi organismi pluricellulari come noi? Minuscola, fragile, incredibilmente complessa e sempre nuova? eppure in grado di mantenere inalterato nel suo DNA un bagaglio d'informazioni che risale a più di tre miliardi di anni fa? la cellula costituisce per la scienza uno degli argomenti più affascinanti e rappresenta una sfida continua. L'essenziale di biologia molecolare della cellula è un libro pensato per fornire i fondamenti della biologia cellulare, che servono a comprendere sia le questioni biomediche sia quelle biologiche più ampie, con l'obiettivo di spiegare anche a chi si avvicina per la prima volta alla biologia come funziona la cellula, mostrando come le proteine, il DNA e l'RNA cooperano nel creare questo straordinario sistema che si nutre, risponde agli stimoli, si muove, cresce e si riproduce. In questa quinta edizione ci sono diverse novità, a cominciare

Based on case studies of five large urban schools that have demonstrated improvement in student achievement, this book shows how to effectively manage the relationship between the central office and schools.

There are an estimated 600 million Evangelicals in the world today, crossing cultures, histories, languages, politics, and nationalities. Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21^st Century introduces the fastest-growing segment of the global Christian church to the world and to each other.

Bringing together a team of multi-disciplined scholars, writers, activists, and leaders from around the world, this handbook provides a compelling look at the diverse group we call Evangelicals. In this guide, written by those who know the movement the best, the issues that divide and the beliefs that unite this global Christian movement are presented in a journalistic fashion.Evangelicals Around the World describes the past and the present, the unique characters, and the powerful ministries of Evangelicals. With a large trim size and colorful page design, this beautiful book is the perfect choice for laypeople and scholars alike.

Features include:

• Essays written by senior leaders of the movement and newer voices with fresh perspectives
• Articles written by journalists convey diverse and creative perspectives on ministry
• Essays provide the demographic details of Evangelicals in regions around the world
• Maps, graphs, photographs, quotes, and mini-profiles of evangelical heroes throughout time

“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ . . . In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”

—DOUGLAS FISHER
Coauthor of Rigorous Reading

Imagine you are a fourth grader, reading about our solar system for the first time. Or you’re a high school student, asked to compare survival in Suzanne Collin’sThe Hunger Games and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Reading complex texts of any kind is arduous, and now more than ever, students are being asked to do highly advanced thinking, talking, and writing around their reading. If only there were ingenious new power tools that could give students the space to tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and to weld their understandings into a new whole.

Good news: such tools exist. In the two volumes, Mining Complex Texts, Grades 2-5 and 6-12, a formidable author team shares fresh ways to use the best digital and print graphic organizers in whole-class, small-group, and independent learning. Big believers of the gradual release method, the authors roll out dozens of examples of dynamic lessons and collaborative work across the content areas so that we see the process of using these visual tools to:

• Help students read, reread, and take notes on a text
• Promote students’ oral sharing of information and their ideas
• Elevate organized note-making from complex text(s)
• Scaffold students’ narrative and informational writing
• Move students to independent thinking as they learn to create their own organizing and note-taking systems

Gone are the days of fill-‘em-in and forget-‘em graphic organizers. With these two volumes, teachers and professional development leaders have a unified vision of how to use these tools to meet the demands of an information-saturated world, one in which students need to be able to sift, sort, synthesize, and apply knowledge with alacrity and skill.