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Features intended to engage students are often included in textbooks as “add-ons,” but our active learning philosophy is at the heart of the pedagogy provided throughout this book. To this end, Active Learning activities do not appear in “boxes,” which we believe students often skip or ignore. Rather they are an integral part of the text itself. The chapter narrative leads directly into the Active Learning feature, and the feature smoothly transitions back into the narrative at its end. As educators, we know that students must act on the material presented in a course to make it their own. We all try to do this in a number of ways in our classrooms, but for the student, reading a textbook is a solitary and often passive process. To help guard against this passivity, our unique pedagogical features are designed to capture and hold students’ interest and turn reading into an active process.