Biology in a Changing World by Michele Shuster

Biology in a Changing World by Michele Shuster

The West is caught up in the dramatic changes taking place in the former Soviet Union, and is eager to help the process of democratization. This work cautions that what is taking place in the former Soviet Union is not democratization as the West knows it but, rather, a form of socialism different from Marxism-Leninism theoretically based on the teachings of an Italian Marxist (now deceased) Antonio Gramsci. The work claims that the same Party elite who controlled the Soviet Union now control the republics. The authors advise that, before granting financial credits to any of the republics, the West should first come to a clear understanding of the political and economic processes now taking place.

Michele ShusterMichele Shuster, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, studying introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level, as well as working on several K-12 science education programs. Michele is an active participant in programs that provide mentoring in scientific teaching to postdoctoral fellows, preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including a Donald C. Roush Excellence in Teaching Award at NMSU. Michele received her Ph.D. from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.Janet VignaJanet Vigna, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the biology department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she is also a member of the Integrated Science Program. She has been teaching university-level biology for 14 years, with a special interest in effectively teaching biology to nonmajors. Her current research focuses on the environmental effects of the biological pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis on natural frog communities. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Iowa. Gunjan SinhaGunjan Sinha is a freelance science journalist who writes regularly for Scientific American, Popular Science, Science, and Nature Medicine. Her article on the biochemistry of love, You Dirty Vole, was published in The Best American Science Writing 2003. She holds a graduate degree in molecular genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Matthew TontonozMatthew Tontonoz has been a development editor for textbooks in introductory biology, cell biology, evolution, and environmental science. He received his B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University, where he did research on the neurobiology of birdsong, and his M.A. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied the history of the behavioral and life sciences. His writing has appeared in Science as Culture. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780716773245
ISBN 10	0716773244
Title	Biology in a Changing World
Author	Michele Shuster
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	W.H. Freeman & Company
Year published	2011-02-15
Number of pages	539
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