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Introduction to Microbiology: A Case-History Study Approach (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Available Titles Cengagenow Available Titles Cengagenow)

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This text gives pleanty of pictures and the cases studies help reinforce what the reader is learning in lecture and lab. I did not have to use the CD-Rom, but the lab book that goes with this text was a lot of fun.

The textbook writing is simple but meanders enough to lose focus. The busy student could benefit from the many tables and figures, but somehow the link between text and graphics is lost in the voluminous chapters.The summaries are point like renditions of the text and do not highlight important material. Likewise the comprehensive self-test questions are not graded according to importance and carry no link back to the text.
Overall, a comprehensive textbook, but lacking the focus and layout for easy adoption and study.

This book is well written (apart from a few minor typo's). It uses a lot of real life examples to help you understand how useful some microorganisms are, as well as how harmful others can be. It starts right at the beginning and steadily introduces new topics that carry on logically from previous ones. It doesn't bombard you with a lot of new words all at once either.

The illustrations have been carefully thought out to make it easier to understand more complex processes. So, overall this is a good book for those who have not studied microbiology before. Although the book is written with the presumption that the reader does have some basic knowledge of biology. If you have not studied biology for a while though, don't worry all the important information necessary is also reviewed in the book.

The content of this book is acceptable and the photos and tables are helpful. But the book indicates that the CD included with the book includes animations of the subject matter. Throughout the book, it encourages you to go to the cd and view the animations. What it does not tell you is that the animations are only available to instructors. It took me six contacts with the book publisher, and lengthy conversations with five uninformed representatives, to find out that I could not get the cd animations. VERY DISAPPOINTING INDEED! I have purchased many science texts that come with animations on cd and it is available to anyone who purchases the book. Why bother to include a cd with the book. The cd that comes with this text is absolutely empty. It only contains a link to the book's website.

Just know that if you purchase this book, the cd is useless to students.

I had to read the entire book. It wasn't difficult. Not a reference book, but a good introduction

I got this book with a Medical Micro book for a class. While the approach of this book is occasionally juvenal (I don't need a little story about a boy getting a puncture wound to explain the immune response), it has been a good fall-back reference as the material is organized differently from the other text.

This book was sent to me in a mistake. I never ordered this book from this individual. Honestly I do not know how this mix up was caused. I am not responsible from other peoples mistakes or the mistake of your services. I do not denie buying a book from him because I did but not the Micro-Biology book.
I would like to speak to some one verbally over the phone so that this can be risolved and at no expense to me. Because I did not order this book. I would like to be reemberst for the money spent to send this product back.