With the new 11th edition, Raven and Johnson’s Biology continues the momentum built over the last three editions. This edition provides an unmatched comprehensive text fully integrated with a continually evolving, state-of-the-art digital environment. We have used this digital environment in the revision of Biology. The McGraw-Hill SmartBook© for the 10th edition provided data on student responses, and thus identify material that students find difficult. This “heat-mapping” technology is unique in the industry, and allows us to direct editing to difficult areas, or problem areas for students. The text continues to be a leader with an organization that emphasizes important biological concepts, while keeping the student engaged with learning outcomes that allow assessment of progress in understanding these concepts. An inquiry-based approach with robust, adaptive tools for discovery and assessment in both text and digital resources provides the intellectual challenge needed to promote student critical thinking and ensure academic success. A major strength of both text and digital resources is assessment across multiple levels of Bloom’s taxonomy that develops criticalthinking and problem-solving skills in addition to comprehensive factual knowledge. McGraw-Hill’s Connect® platform offers a powerful suite of online tools that are linked to the text and now include new quantitative assessment tools. The adaptive learning system helps students learn faster, study efficiently, and retain more knowledge of key concepts.

The 11th edition continues our tradition of providing the student with clear learning paths that emphasize data analysis and quantitative reasoning. Additional embedded eBook resources link to asides that delve more deeply into quantitative aspects.

The 11th edition continues to employ the aesthetically stunning art program that the Raven and Johnson Biology text is known for. Complex topics are represented clearly and succinctly, helping students to build the mental models needed to understanding biology.