Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (3rd Edition)
Designed for pre-nursing and allied health students (and also mixed-majors courses), Microbiology with Diseases by Body System, Third Edition retains the hallmark art program and clear writing style that have made Robert Bauman’s book a success. This Third Edition features compelling clinical content related to students’ future healthcare careers and abundant opportunities for applied student practice. Chapter-opening Clinical Cases, Emerging Diseases boxes, and Clinical Applications boxes introduce students to real-world clinical situations. Student comprehension is ensured with end-of-chapter practice that encompasses applied, visual, and conceptual understanding.
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- Microbiology with Diseases by Body System, Third Edition
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Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy (3rd Edition) (Symbiosis: The Pearson Custom Library for the Biological Sci)
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Awesome book!,
I ordered this book and am currently using it for my pre-med microbiology course. The book is extremely well written in plain english. It is very thorough and detailed, with tons of vivid pictures. In just the short 4 weeks since my micro class began, I’ve already learned so much from this book. I highly recommend it to anyone taking a course in microbiology.
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|Comment by Russell Ellis — January 24, 2012 @ 11:16 am
Wonderful explanations and illustrations,
This book is awesome for Micro, granted, I have not seen others, but it made a lot of sense and with the illustrations and online reference pages, was very helpful. I would reccomend this as a textbook for any beginning Micro class with emphasis on Body systems.
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|Comment by Jennifer Dominianni — January 24, 2012 @ 12:03 pm
Great book, very informative,
The book has very valuable information. Good to have one as a desk top reference.
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|Comment by jess "book geek" — January 24, 2012 @ 12:08 pm
great text,
This text is very helpful with its readable language and diagrams. It provides a sufficient review of basic biology and is written so that one could technically skip chapters and still understand the topics. The text’s website and CD provide excellent review tests, flashcards, and animations.
However in some sections and chapters, the author has not organized the flow very well, especially the immunity chapters, and the text goes a little too deep for a 1-term college microbiology class. Its strengths outweigh the negatives enough to give it 5 stars.
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|Comment by Jennifer Presley — January 24, 2012 @ 12:56 pm
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.
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|Comment by M. Hayden — January 24, 2012 @ 1:16 pm