Human Anatomy & Physiology (7th Edition)

This textbook is easy to understand and read. Makes it easier to read than previous biology classes I've had before. It's very descriptive and goes into great detail.

Great book. It covers anything you wish to know about A & P. The CD and the poster insert was really good.

I will keep this book for good! It is such a great and useful resource! I really like the way it was written and it is easy to understand. Great buy! I definitely recommend it!

I used this book for 2 semesters in a distance learning class. The book came packaged with a lab book, CD and I also purchased a study guide.
I found the textbook OK. I think its main limitation is 8.5x11 size. This limits the size of diagrams, tables and photography, making it more difficult for a visual learner like myself to tie concepts together. So I drew up a poster connecting microstructures with macrostructures; as well as diagrams. Physiology was most difficult to comprehend, even with the paired CDs.

I was dissapointed to use 3 seperate books (textbook, lab book and study guide), with all the same information. I ended up having to use a lot of desk space to correlate information between the sources. Luckily I have a huge kitchen table in my home!

I'm also dissapointed that textbooks are not offered digitally. I suppose this is due to copyright, but I'd give a major body part to not to have to lug around these books, which I say ring in at about 15 pounds.

I also thought the study guide had much to be desired. Coloring is a great way to learn! I advise visual learners to avoid the study guide (although the study guide has the same questions in it, albeit in different fashion than the lab book) and purchase this coloring book: "The Anatomy Coloring Book", Kapit/Elson. Children also enjoy coloring in this book!

I can't tell you how sad I was when I found out that the City Colleges of Chicago decided to use Principles of Anatomy and Physiology by Tortora and Derrickson for the second course of Anatomy and Physiology instead of this book. This book does a great job of putting the subjects in an order that is good to follow, with a plethora of great photos and drawings, and puts a section called Homeostatic Imbalance right after a section and explains some problems that go wrong in the part of the human body. Most chapters even have a closer look section with a rather corny title that they think is funny with an article that is usually topical and relevant. Really go above and beyond in muscle and bone chapters (giving you both a detailed drawing and actual picture of almost everything). Also, wrote in a style that is easy to understand; goes from the basics to the details of a subject very smoothly. Even my girlfriend, who has no interest in a career in the medical world, has flipped through most of the book and asked questions or stated how awesome something is. I plan on keeping this book to reference to for a long time.