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The Cell: A Molecular Approach with CDROM

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The field of cell biology is so vast and changing so rapidly that teaching it can be a daunting prospect. The First Edition of The Cell: A Molecular Approach, published in 1997, offered the perfect solution for teachers and their students--current, comprehensive science combined with the readability and cohesiveness of a single-authored text. Designed for one-semester introductory cell biology courses, this book enabled students to master the material in the entire book, not simply to sample a small fraction from a much larger text. The new Second Edition of The Cell retains the organization, themes, and special features of the original, but it has been completely updated in major areas of scientific progress, including: genome analysis; chromatin and transcription; nuclear transport; protein sorting and trafficking; signal transduction; the cell cycle; and programmed cell death.

The new Second Edition was published June 16, 2000.

I am an engineer by training and I am interested in appling biological principles to solving engineering problems (I am also the author of a book entitled Intelligent Systems for Engineering: A Knowledge-based Approach). Prof. Cooper's book is an amazingly well written book. Anyone can easily understand the concepts presented. My only advice to the author is to make the CD-ROM more interactive and if possible add narration. Congratuations on writing such an excellent book.

This text, as a course text, could very possibly be excellent as a text in an introductory biology course for first year biology students. For more advanced students, even those taking an introductory biology course, this book lacks the depth and detail that the discriminating student demands.

Students often complain that the book leaves them hanging with unanswered questions and that the text's depth is insufficient.

The presentation, though, is excellent. Effective use of color and illustration make this text just fine for a non-honors level class. The writing style isn't overly stuffy either.

All in all, this book is best complemented with a good molecular biology textbook. The extra explanations of chemical mechanisms make up for the missing depth of Cooper's text

This book contained very usefull text information especially for whom undertaking cell biology. It as also recommended by Lecturers in Victoria University of Technology, in Australia. It provides excellent details of cell functions and related items in both the general view and the molecular view. The older version is also a very good source, but I think it is a bit out dated. I would recommend this text to whom is studying cell biology.

I didn't care for this one too much. It provides the info you need but is dry even by science book standards... There's probably more fun ways to learn cell biology.

This book was exactly what was needed for the cellular biology class I was taking. It was very helpful for the course, but for some things I think it could have been a little more detailed. For others, it would have been better if less confusing.

I teach cellular biolgy in senior hihg school, and I found in this book an excellent tool, were my students can find the basic information that they need. The CD is also a great idea, because the students can see some proceses in motion.

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