Eckert Animal Physiology [Hardcover]

David Randall (Author), Warren Burggren (Author), Kathleen French (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0716738635 | ISBN-13: 978-0716738633 | Publication Date: November 9, 2001 | Edition: Fifth Edition

Building on their last revision of Roger Eckert's best-selling text, the author team of Randall, Burggren, and French are back and breathing new life into Animal Physiology. The Fifth Edition highlights the latest breakthroughs in the field and offers refreshing new themes, all the while staying true to the enduring strengths that have made the book a longtime market-leader. With this edition more student help has also been included.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

DAVID RANDALL, City University of Hong Kong. WARREN BURGGREN, University of North Texas. KATHLEEN FRENCH, University of California, San Diego.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 752 pages
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman; Fifth Edition edition (November 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716738635
• ISBN-13: 978-0716738633
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Medical Books > Veterinary Medicine > Anatomy & Physiology
  • #24 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Zoology
  • #94 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Anatomy

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A physiology instructor weighs in on this book, February 10, 2003

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D. Vaughan (Oshkosh, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eckert Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations (Hardcover)

I have been teaching University-level physiology for over 10 years. I have used at least a dozen books, from the "essentials" to the "encyclopedic". For a one-semester course on physiology that emphasizes recurring mechanisms from a cellular and organ-level perspective, with a great introduction to ecological physiology thrown in, Eckert cannot be beat. In my experience, the vast majority of students respond better to Eckert's illustrations than to the endless flow charts that appear in most of the other books. It nicely fills the niche between "just the basics" essentials texts (which are simply not rigorous enough for biology majors) and the "every little detail" encyclopedic texts that most students find bewildering. If I had to learn animal physiology from just one textbook, this would be it; and I'd save the cell & molecular details from one of THOSE specialty texts instead. The ONLY criticism I have about Eckert is its nearly complete lack of consideration of the immune system.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a good book about general animal physiological mechanisms, August 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Eckert Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations (Hardcover)

It's a good book about animal physiological mechanisms. The explanations about fine mechanisms of animal adaptations to a wide range of environments are very good. It's not too good about the molecular mechanisms of the physiological processes. Lodish or Alberts, for exemple are better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Introductory/Supplement Text, October 11, 2010

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EN (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eckert Animal Physiology (Hardcover)

This is a decent introductory book for an undergraduate college physiology class (it is for mine) and a great supplement to clarify materials from lecture. The text was published a while back, but the basic physiological fundamentals and principles still hold true so don't let the 2001 publication date fool you.

One qualm that I have is that the chapters are NOT indicated at the top of each page. This is a bit annoying as you have to actually go to the table of contents each time you need to find a specific chapter - as a student, it would have helped if the chapter number were included with chapter titles.

I would have also liked a separate index of animals in the back of the book, and not just terminology/definitions and a regular index. Many of the other texts I have used for my biology classes have included an index but also an additional index of animals.

Overall, a solid, basic book.