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- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 8 edition (1 Feb 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071313672
- ISBN-13: 978-0071313674
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 22.9 x 3.6 cm
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The Eighth Edition continues to present material in short chapters organized thematically into nine separate sections. Shorter chapters are less daunting and more “digestible” for most students. Furthermore, they offer the professor a greater degree of flexibility so that the order in which chapters are covered can be tailored to meet the needs of an individual class.
About the Author
JOANNE M. WILLEY has been a professor at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, since 1993, where she is Professor of Microbiology; she holds a joint appointment with the Hostra University School of Medicine.
LINDA M. SHERWOOD is a member of the Department of Microbiology at Montana State University. Her interest in microbiology was sparked by the last course she took to complete a B.S. degree in Psychology at Western Illinois University.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Pretty darn decent writing for a Micro textbook
28 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback
I learned a hell of a lot more from this text than my professor. It was better written than I expected, it's as up to date as you can expect a textbook to be, and the pictures/diagrams are good. And most importantly, IDENTICAL to the hardback, but cheaper.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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11 Sep 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book does an excellent job of going into depth about the topics covered in my class. Several figures give more details than in previous editions. One drawback is that this edition does not have the essays that were in the older edition. Those essays were extremely helpful for making connections for class. Also, this edition is extremely expensive however,amazon was much cheaper than my local bookstore.
Great Text, but NEEDS editing!!!
16 May 2012
Format:Hardcover
When you pay as much for texts as we all do these days (even through Amazon), you expect it to be better edited than this book is. Still, this really is a very good text for micro, and I enjoyed the content. But there are many typos, misspellings, and poor usages of English Grammar that made reading quickly a bit awkward. Sometimes, also, some common term could not be found in the index or glossary. With this text, as with many others I have paid an exorbitant amount of money for the last 15 years or so, I wonder sometimes whether the book I've gotten was a "second" and that I perhaps just didn't know how to tell before purchasing that it wasn't "first quality" - so many were the errors and problems. It seems that the more we pay for texts, the worse they become. A little arithmetic would seem to lead one to believe that the publishers are quite capable of employing adequate staff to do this work properly. I wonder whether anyone else agrees with me. McGraw: SPRING FOR AN EDITOR and A PROOFREADER, PLEASE! It almost perfect...
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