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 | | Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy (2nd Edition) by Robert W. Bauman ISBN-10: 9780805376784 ISBN-10: 0-8053-7678-X ISBN-13: 9780805376784 ISBN-13: 978-0-8053-7678-4 Hardcover 2006-01-13 Benjamin Cummings Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Filled with lively vignettes and cutting-edge research that highlight the intrinsic appeal of microbiology, Bauman’s Second Edition retains the book’s groundbreaking art program, includes a handy new “Microbe-at-a-Glance” feature, offers new options for the Microbiology Place website/CD-Rom, and provides instructors with a new Media Manager presentation package with 30 multi-step animations. KEY TOPICS: A Brief History of Microbiology, The Chemistry of Microbiology, Cell Structure and Function, Microscopy, Staining and Classification, Microbial Metabolism, Microbial Nutrition and Growth, Microbial Genetics, Recombinant DNA Technology, Controlling Microbial Growth in the Environment, Controlling Microbial Growth in the Body: Antimicrobial Drugs, Characterizing and Classifying Prokaryotes, Characterizing and Classifying Eukaryotes, Characterizing and Classifying Viruses, Viroids, and Prions, Infection, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology, Innate Immunity, Specific Defense: Adaptive Immunity, Immunization and Immune Testing, Hypersensitivities, Autoimmune Diseases, and Immune Deficiencies, Pathogenic Gram-Positive Cocci and Bacilli, Pathogenic Gram-Negative Cocci and Bacilli, Mycoplasmas, Rickettsias, Chlamydias, Spirochetes, and Vibrios, Pathogenic Fungi, Parasitic Protozoa, Helminths, and Arthropod Vectors, Pathogenic DNA Viruses, Pathogenic RNA Viruses, Applied and Environmental Microbiology. KEY MARKET: For all readers interested in the study of microbiology. | ||
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Microbiology Text itself is great. It's a required book for my Micro class. However, it came to be water damaged. Yes, it was cheap ($84) but not cheap enough to have a book in such condition. The pages were stuck together. Regardless, the text is fine. Wordy but fine. The person/ entity should have made that disclaimer when selling it otherwise I would have paid more for a book in better condition. | ||
Good book I bought this for my college class. IT's a good book that explains everything well. | ||
microbiology with diseases My instructor ordered a customized book for our class, so I have a problem keeping up with her in class. Over all the book is informative and is easy reading. | ||
Good Reading for a Textbook While I wouldn't exactly choose this book for causal reading, it is quite good as far as textbooks go. In my course, my instructor chose to cover a chapter of material a day, so we finished all but a handful of chapters before the class ended. The introductory chapters were not as useful (typical for biology textbooks). I found that I either didn't care about the material in the beginning chapters (like the history of microbiology and microscopy) or already knew the information (the chapters on metabolism and cell structure). In general though, the book is organized well. It has a focus towards medical microbiology, and thus teaches the background biology in the opening chapters, then covers the body's immune system (these are the most complex chapters in the book), and then surveys all the classes of organisms. The concepts are well explained and illustrated with charts and diagrams aplenty. I never had any trouble understanding things after reading and maybe rereading the material once. If anything, the flaw in the writing is to include too much detail - making outlines or skimming is nearly impossible, since every sentence contains a possibly-important fact. There simply are no filler paragraphs in the book (outside of chapter introductions). Just get a feel for what your instructor is likely to test on. The end-of-chapter reviews are pretty decent. The multiple-choice questions test on pretty specific facts, but all the answers are listed in the back. I enjoyed the book about as much as anyone can enjoy a textbook, and definitely felt like I knew microbiology well after finishing it. | ||
NEVER RECIEVED BOOK! I ordered my book a month before my summer class was to begin. When I ordered my book, I was still living on campus and I would have been able to just walk across campus and paid $130 for the book. However, I saw the same book online for $105 so I decided to order it from here. I never recieved the book, and I had to file a claim, and nothing ever came of it yet. I was very hesitant to order something online, and this experience just prooved that I was right about how this stuff works. I just gave the seller $105 and I got absolutely nothing out of it except a day wasted driving back down to school to get the book for class. I never should have ordered from her! | ||