Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth - Softcover

Spoolman, Scott; Miller, G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143904984X ISBN 13: 9781439049846

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2011

Synopsis

Provides the basic scientific tools for understanding and thinking critically about the environmental problems we face. This 14-chapter, one-color core book offers an integrated approach that emphasizes how environmental and resource problems and solutions are related.

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Review:

1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. 2. Cognition and the Brain: Basic Principles. 3. Perception. 4. Attention. 5. Short-Term and Working Memory. 6. Long-Term Memory: Basic Principles. 7. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors. 8. Knowledge. 9. Visual Imagery. 10. Language. 11. Problem Solving. 12. Reasoning and Decision Making.

About the Author:

Scott Spoolman is a writer with more than 30 years of experience in educational publishing. He has worked with Tyler Miller since 2003 as a coauthor on editions of LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, and SUSTAINING THE EARTH. With Norman Myers, he also coauthored ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS: A MODULAR APPROACH. Spoolman holds a master's degree in science journalism from the University of Minnesota. He has authored numerous books and articles in the fields of environmental science, geology and natural history, politics, and business. He worked as an acquisitions editor on a series of college forestry textbooks. He has also worked as a consulting editor in the development of over 70 college and high school textbooks in fields of the natural and social sciences. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the forests and waters of his native Wisconsin along with his family― his wife, environmental educator Gail Martinelli, and his son Will and daughter Katie.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 143904984X
• ISBN 13: 9781439049846
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384