Customer Reviews

Immunology

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My undergraduate immunology professor chose this text for our class and I found it to be very useful. To this day it is one of my favorite texts. I encourage any undergraduate that has an interest in immunology to obtain this text and study it. You will not be sorry.

This Immunology text is quite an outstanding one. I like the way author (Dr. Kuby) illustrates the idea in terms of experiments as well as the result drawn from them. The concept is precise and clear. The organization is logical and easy to follow and lastly the figures shown are spectacular.

"Immunology" by Janis Kuby is one of not many texts available in today's market that can explain complicated concepts of immunology quite nicely. It is a text that is suitable for introductory class as well as a good reference for those who need to brush up their immunology concept in a short period of time. The author explains well in terms of definition and the major functions of each individual cells in the immune system. The concept is also not redundant and repititive. It is an easy-to-read text and the terms used are not too complicated. Another good text to try!

I read this text as a source for my immunology class and it helps me a lot. I love the way the author organizes the idea throughout the book. It is quite easy to follow and not too many complicated terms that are seen in many texts of the same field. The figures shown in the book are outstanding. I admit that immunology has never been my choice of field to study but this book really helps me pass this subject nicely and I count myself know a lot about immunology now. Try reading this book and you will know what I mean. Good luck!

As a first year graduate student of biology (having a significant molecular and cellular biology background), I have found Dr. Kuby's book to be excessively confusing. Ofcourse she knows the material well, but she explains it in the book almost with the assumption that students like myself already have a similar background as her's. It is chock full of areas that are poorly and incompletely explained (or not explained at all) and in several cases throughout the book, she even contradicts herself! It makes learning immunology difficult, because one finds themselves having the need to look in outside sources for better and more complete explanations for certain numbers of immunological processes that Dr. Kuby ignored clarifying in her book. Her explanations of proteins, chemicals, etc. are fine, however. But at no point in her book can one get a complete, comprehensive picture of how our immune system works as a whole; such as in interaction/activation of various immune cells with eachother. The only reason I gave this book two stars versus the lowest score of one star is because I did manage to learn a great deal from it. But in my opinion, anyone who wishes to learn immunology with a good understanding of its functionality in our bodies will find this book to be quite poor.