This undergraduate text focuses on higher-order thinking, with discussion prompts and written exercises demanding application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills. Special sections in each chapter show how to analyze health-related info, covering topics such as choosing CAM therapies. Boxes offer themed readings on consumer health, diversity, and health across the lifespan. The text includes an extensive glossary and appendices of injury prevention, emergency care, and nutrition recommendations. A within-text workbook contains student questionnaires and critical thinking questions for each chapter. The text's appealing layout offers color photos, illustrations, charts, and tables on every page, plus many physical exercise photo-sequences. A student website contains video clips and access to the publishers' health statistics website. An instructor's media CD contains lecture slides, images, and a test bank. Alters is a former professor in biology and personal health. Schiff is a former instructor in physical education. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)