We have added several pedagogical features that should reduce what may seem to be an information overload to some students.
A list of Key Terms, with definitions, is provided at the beginning of each chapter.
Carefully designed questions, termed Focus Points, target the key concepts of each major section. Knowing the answers to these questions insures that students have grasped the important concepts in the text that follows.
Cartoons relevant to the presented material are interspersed throughout the text in order to lighten up the scientific contents.
