Designed to serve as a core text or supplement for a wide variety of life science courses, this new text is sure to ignite interest in your students for how the science of biology is done and how science and society interact. The book provides a brief and engaging tour of how life scientists form hypotheses, design experiments, analyze data, and draw conclusions in carrying out good science. Drawing on experiments from classic and modern biology the authors compose a masterful picture of biology as a dynamic field ripe for a new generation of students and investigators. This brief and beautifully written text will complement traditional fact-driven basic biology texts or media and is sure to light a fire in students for learning science and maybe even doing science one day.