Prescott/Harley/Klein's Microbiology | 
 enlarge | Authors: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Chris Woolverton
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1544
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Pages: 1088
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0073302082
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.9041
EAN: 9780073302089
Publication Date: January 12, 2007
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Condition: Hardcover 7th edition. Text clean and binding tight. Tear in back cover along spine. Slight bow to book. NO ONLINE CODE. Remainder mark.
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Product Description
The brand new author team of Prescott, Harley and Klein's Microbiology continues the tradition of past editions by providing a balanced, comprehensive introduction to all major areas of microbiology. Because of this balance, the Seventh Edition of Microbiology is appropriate for microbiology majors and mixed majors courses. The new authors have focused on readability, artwork, and the integration of several key themes (including evolution, ecology and diversity) throughout the text, making an already superior text even better..
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Not bad November 17, 2008
Brennan Johnson
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is well written overall and it is fairly easy to learn from.
Having said that, I'd like to rip on a couple of issues. For some reason, it seems like nearly every time a picture is referred to in the text, it will be one or two pages behind the actual picture. This isn't a big deal if you're just reading a section, but if you actually sit down and read a chapter or two at a time, it becomes infuriating quickly. The book makes constant references to pictures, so it really slows down reading to have to flip the page over, find the figure, flip back, find your place, and continue reading again. The fact that this flaw could have been easily fixed makes it all the more annoying to me. Also, some of the chapters seem a little out of order. I often find myself reading sections that are 10 chapters apart, which cover very similar topics.
Another thing that is lacking in a few places are explanations of basic biology and chemistry concepts that are presented for the first time in the text. I know that you would be expected to know it already, but there are places where a sentence or two of explanation on a concept would be very appropriate and helpful.
If you don't mind constantly flipping the pages to see the referred figure, this really isn't a bad book. The figures are generally helpful and I have certainly learned a lot more from reading this book than I did attending lecture. I would probably recommend it despite its flaws.
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