Biological Sciences Review
A subscription to Biological Sciences Review will give students the best possible opportunity to:
- Master key concepts and topics at AS and A2 beyond what textbooks offer
- Stretch and challenge their understanding through topical, relevant and thought-provoking articles
- Achieve the top grades and develop key skills through Biological Sciences Review’s extensive stimulus material
Each 44-page issue of Biological Sciences Review explores key topics on the new AS and current A2 specifications through specially commissioned articles. Each article:
- includes explanations of biological terms, summarises key points and is illustrated throughout with professional colour photography micrographs and informative diagrams
- strengthens students’ knowledge and understanding of topics and biological processes
Regular columns develop students’ skills. These include:
- Upgrade, Chief Examiner Bill Indge offers invaluable advice to get ahead in exam preparation
- How Science Works, a core element of the new specifications, this new column looks at examples of the ways in which scientists work and the potential impact of their work
Other regular features will help students update their understanding of exciting new developments in:
- bioethics
- laboratory and field investigations
- health issues
- biotechnology
- molecular biology and genetics
Biological Sciences Review is published four times a year in September, November, February and April. Subscription rates for this volume have been frozen, so once you place an institutional order at the full rate of £26.95, students will be able to subscribe at the greatly reduced rate of just £12.50.
The institutional subscription includes free 4-page Teachers’ Notes with each issue. Compiled by Bill Indge, Teachers’ Notes explore ways of using material from the magazine in the classroom.
Editorial board
- Dr Liz Sheffield (Chairman), Plant Sciences
- Professor Neil Bulleid, Molecular Sciences
- Dr Ron Butler, Cell Sciences
- Professor Mike Grant, Medical Sciences
- Dr Dianne Gull, Health Sciences
- Bill Indge, Consultant Editor
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PT
e-mail: biolrev@manchester.ac.uk
How to subscribe
Subscription rates
Full rate subscriptions
One full rate subscription, charged at £26.95, must be placed to entitle you to order any number of reduced rate subscriptions.
Reduced rate subscriptions
Reduced rate subscriptions, additional to a full rate order, are charged at just £12.50 each, provided all copies of each issue can be mailed to the same addressee for internal distribution.
Personal subscriptions
Individuals can obtain a personal subscription, mailed to their own address, for £26.95. Simply download the order form, print it out and complete the details. Invoiced orders cannot be accepted for personal subscriptions.
How to order
- Download the order form, print it out and complete the details, or
- Send a school purchase order and we will invoice your institution
You will be sent order forms for additional subscriptions with subsequent issues of the magazine, so you can add reduced rate subscriptions at any time through the school/college year. Back issues will be supplied automatically for all subscriptions placed after publication of the first issue of the volume.
Please note: only orders for a complete volume (four issues), commencing with the September issue, will be accepted.
To thank you for your invaluable work collecting orders, we will add one free reduced rate subscription for every 15 orders placed. These free copies are sent automatically.
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Volume 21
Issue 1: September 2008
Issue 2: November 2008
Issue 3: February 2009
Issue 4: April 2009
September 2008
Contents:
‘The cerebral cortex: our imprint of the world’
Roosa Tikkanen
How science works
‘Who’s a pretty boy?’
Chief Examiner Bill Indge investigates
studies on the survival instincts of
Amazonian parrots
What is…?
‘Tertiary structure’
Dianne Gull
‘Cholera’
Dennis Linton
Upgrade
‘The biology of test tubes’
Bill Indge
‘What happens when proteins lose their shape?’
Neil Bulleid
Spotlight
‘Sheep don’t all look the same’
Ann Lackie
‘Meningitis’ Sample pages
David Gull
Interface ‘A case of diabetes’
Mike Grant and Allister Grant
Impact ‘Florida’s fern foes’
Liz Sheffield and Roderick Robinson
November 2008
Contents:
Bridging the gap: how nerve cells communicate
Richard Prince
Upgrade
Specifications and contracts
Bill Indge
How science works
On the trail of a snail...in Uganda
Claire Standley
Biological clocks: telling the time in the Arctic
Karl-Arne Stokkan
Molecule
Water, life and hydrogen bonding
Seishi Shimizu
Asthma
Sarah Herrick
How science works
A twist in the tail
Helen Dawe
Interface
Conservation: preserving diversity
Jennifer Rowntree
Diabetes mellitus and the promise of new therapies
Karen Cosgrove
Spotlight
Black squirrels
Alison Thomas
Images of biology
CELLpics
David Archer and Matthew Gratian