Human Anatomy and Physiology

With the Eighth Edition of the top-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology text, trusted authors Elaine N. Marieb and Katja Hoehn have produced the most accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and visually stunning anatomy & physiology textbook on the market. Marieb draws on her career as an A&P professor and her experience as a part-time nursing student, while Hoehn relies on her medical education and classroom experience to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way.



The most significant revision to date, the Eighth Edition makes it easier for students to learn key concepts in A&P. The new edition features a whole new art program that is not only more visually dynamic and vibrant than in previous editions but is also much more pedagogically effective for today’s students, including new Focus figures, which guide students through the toughest concepts in A&P. The text has been edited to make it easier than ever to study from and navigate, with integrated objectives, new concept check questions, and a new design program. The new, easy-to-use Instructor Resource DVD includes brand-new A&P Flix animations and all the tools instructors need to prepare their lecture presentations. The robust media package provides students with indispensable practice tools, tutorials, and self-assessments to help them succeed in their A&P lecture and lab course.



Package Components:

Interactive Physiology® 10-System Suite (IP-10) CD-ROM
A Brief Atlas of the Human Body, Second Edition
Access to myA&P™ Website with myeBook for Human Anatomy & Physiology, Eighth Edition




The clear and inviting writing style uses everyday analogies to explain difficult concepts and hold students’ attention.
The enhanced art program accelerates the learning process with large, clear anatomical figures, handy illustrated tables, consistent, color-coded flow charts, and realistic illustrations of microscopic structures.
Comprehensive clinical applications appear in Homeostatic Imbalance sections, Closer Look enrichment essays, Clinical Connections, and Critical Thinking and Clinical Application Questions to help students apply their knowledge to clinical situations.
Making Connections and Closer Connections summarize the relationships between body systems and their clinical implications.
Thorough beginning- and end-of-chapter pedagogy reinforces key concepts to help students truly understand the material instead of simply memorizing it.
Muscle art features more realistic, natural-looking colors and textures that are consistent in style from figure to figure.


A simply stunning art program uses more dynamic, three-dimensional, and realistic styles with dramatic views and perspectives and saturated and vibrant colors. The art includes key anatomy figures that are rendered superior to the competition, with detail, depth, and a clear focus on key anatomical structures. These figures are not only visually dynamic but they also do a superior job of teaching key concepts to today’s student.
Focus figures help students grasp key A&P concepts that they often have trouble visualizing and understanding, such as events at the neuromuscular junction, excitation-contraction coupling, the cross-bridge cycle, and action potential. These ten key figures convey these tough topics by walking students step-by-step through the processes with easy-to-follow illustrations and explanations.
Addition of author narration with blue text has been integrated into select figures to help guide students through complex, multi-step processes.
All new bone art features realistic color and attributes and creates a consistent style from figure to figure.
New photos include cadaver, photomicrograph, medical imaging, and clinical photos.
An easy-to-navigate text features newly tightened writing together with a clean presentation that is easier to study from and navigate.
Student Objectives have been integrated from the chapter opener page to within the chapter. These give students a preview of what content is to come and what they are expected to learn.
Check Your Understanding concept check questions ask students to stop, think, and check their understanding of key concepts at the end of each major section.
A new design and larger trim size make the book easier to navigate through and study from, and a new font style makes the book easier to read.
Powerful, user-friendly media includes
For instructors:
Instructor Resource DVD, with every level of customizable content needed for class presentations and course materials, allows instructors to easily and quickly pull together a lecture and to show animations from their PowerPoint® presentations.
NEW! 3D movie-quality A&P Flix animations cover key concepts in A&P and invigorate instructors’ classroom lectures.
New assessments for course management systems, such as WebCT, Blackboard, and CourseCompass™, make it easier for instructors to assess students by generating quizzes and tests from our media resources. Instructors now have access to assessments for Get Ready for A&P, Interactive Physiology®, Practice Anatomy Lab (PAL™), and PhysioEx™.
For students:
A more powerful myA&P ™ Website for students now includes everything students need to practice, review, and self-assess for both A&P lecture and lab.
Interactive Physiology 10-System Suite (IP-10) CD-ROM includes a new module on the Immune System and helps students advance beyond memorization to a genuine understanding of complex physiological processes.




1. The Human Body: An Orientation
2. Chemistry Comes Alive

3. Cells: The Living Units
4. Tissue: The Living Fabric
5. The Integumentary System
6. Bones and Skeletal Tissues
7. The Skeleton
8. Joints
9. Muscles and Muscle Tissue
10. The Muscular System
11. Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue
12. The Central Nervous System
13. The Peripheral Nervous System and Reflex Activity
14. The Autonomic Nervous System
15. The Special Senses
16. The Endocrine System
17. Blood
18. The Cardiovascular System: The Heart
19. The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels
20. The Lymphatic System and Lymphoid Organs and Tissues
21. The Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Body Defensives
22. The Respiratory System
23. The Digestive System
24. Nutrition, Metabolism, and Body Temperature Regulation
25. The Urinary System
26. Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance
27. The Reproductive System
28. Pregnancy and Human Development
29. Heredity


Anatomy & Physiology (Two Semesters) (Anatomy & Physiology)




With each edition of her top-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology text, Elaine N. Marieb draws on her own, unique experience as a full-time A&P professor and part-time nursing student to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. With the Seventh Edition, Dr. Marieb has teamed up with co-author Katja Hoehn to produce the most exciting edition yet, with beautifully-enhanced muscle illustrations, updated coverage of factual material and topic boxes, new coverage of high-interest topics such as Botox, designer drugs, and cancer treatment, and a comprehensive instructor and student media package.



Package Components

NEW! InterActive Physiology® 9-System Suite CD-ROM
Student Access Kit for MyA&P (CourseCompass) and the Anatomy & Physiology Place companion website
REVISED! A Brief Atlas of the Human Body, Second Edition

Human Anatomy & Physiology, 7/E
Marieb & Hoehn
© 2007 | Benjamin Cummings | Cloth; 1296 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805359095 | ISBN-13: 9780805359091
Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

With each edition of her top-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology text, Elaine N. Marieb draws on her own, unique experience as a full-time A&P professor and part-time nursing student to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. With the Seventh Edition, Dr. Marieb has teamed up with co-author Katja Hoehn to produce the most exciting edition yet, with beautifully enhanced muscle illustrations, updated coverage of factual material and topic boxes, new coverage of high-interest topics such as Botox, designer drugs, and cancer treatment, and a comprehensive instructor and student media package.



Package Components

NEW! Interactive Physiology® (IP) 10-System Suite CD-ROM
Student Access Kit for MyA&P (CourseCompass) and the Anatomy & Physiology Place companion website
REVISED! A Brief Atlas of the Human Body, Second Edition
Human Anatomy & Physiology with IP-10 CD-ROM, 7/E
Marieb & Hoehn
© 2009 | Benjamin Cummings | Cloth Package; 1296 pages | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321559118 | ISBN-13: 9780321559111
Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore