"Black" has been a best-selling textbook for several editions due to its informal writing style and enlightening examples. The result of years of teaching and investigation, the student-centered writing style provides the background you need to truly comprehend lectures and classroom discussions. The key features include: extensive use of applications throughout the text and in the narrative of every chapter that help students comprehend the key principles; informal, student-centered writing style serves more as a narrative for students exploring microbiology than as a textbook that reads as a list of facts; and an accurate and informative art program. The text includes artwork produced by award-winning medical illustrators and photographs that have been personally researched and identified by the author. This title is written by a microbiologist, who teaches microbiology on a consistent basis. An invaluable class resource and study guide, it provides you with reproductions of the black and white images from the book. It gives you the ability to take notes right on the images for ease of review and study.
