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Summary: ?
Review: I hate to disagree with everyone, but as a student at the University of California, I thought this text was difficult to read and at times got a little too confusing, especially with bad wording.
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Summary: Everything you always wanted to know about Eucaryotic cells
Review: There is so much praise in the other reviews, what else should one say about this book ? Before holding the book in my hands, I wondered why so many reviewers mention the pictures in this book. Now I know why. The authors use different kinds of pictures to make clear what is where in a cell and how parts cooperate: 1. simple line drawings and chemical structures 2. coloured schemes for complex structures 3. images from Electron Microscopes or Micrographs. The images are (technically, sharpness, details, contrast) of very good quality. I have never seen better ones, but this may be my fault.I could go on in praising this extraordinarily good text book like the other reviewers, but instead I will try to play Advocatus Diaboli. So, what could one say against this book ? 1. It is expensive 2. It is heavy, you will never take it to class room 3. Laboratory techniques are not described, you have to buy the companion "Problems Book" for techniques and experiments 4. This book is mostly about eucaryotic cells, this means there is very few information about bacteria in it. 5. The chapters are structured according to processes in the cell, if your approach is a different one, you need the index to find the places in the book. I bought this book because I wanted information about bacteria, so I am a bit disappointed by the book because of its focus on eucaryotic cells. But this book still is the best book about microbiology in general that I have (although microbiology in general is not its focus).
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Summary: A thouroughly comprehensive Molecular Biology book
Review: This book covers a wide range of 'hot' scientific subjects ranging from Developemntal Biology, Cancer Genetics and Recombinant Biology Techniques. It is easily comprehensive while not being too basically fundamental that it loses interest. It has been indispensible throughout my Biochemistry Undergraduate study at Imperial College. What would we have done without it!!!
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Summary: Simply the most comprehensive molecular biology book ever
Review: Its not often you get an all-star cast of writers on a text book but thats exactly what you have here. Alberts and colleagues have created the utlimate reference text in the field. The best book I own, without a doubt in molecular biology.
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Summary: The BEST Cell biology/Molecular text book Ever!!
Review: I have use this book for both undergraduate and graduate classes. Simply the best text I have ever owned!
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Summary: The single most useful textbook I own
Review: This text covers every important aspect in the field, from experimental techniques and basic concepts to reviews of immunology, cancer, and developmental biology. I used it as a reference in four different undergraduate classes, and have prepared for several job interviews by reviewing the relevant information in this book. The illustrations are all relevant, the organization is excellent, and the prose is so well written that I take the book off the shelf and read it for fun. A new edition would be useful - some of the more speculative information is outdated - but this is still the best textbook I own.
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Summary: Extremely well done textbook
Review: This book is the bible of cell biology. I continually find it to be well written, very thorough and extremely well illustrated. I am a PhD student in physiology and would consider this book to be one of the most indispensible books in my library. In fact, this is one of the few books I will pull off the shelf, open to some random page and just read.
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Summary: the best
Review: This book, is one of the best books on molecular biology, it really explains the molecular function of cells.
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Summary: A very good book, though a new edition is urgently needed!
Review: Please, Doctor Alberts, please, Doctor Watson, please, please, please, have mercy on all us postgraduating students!!! Make us a new edition of this formidable book, real soon!!!
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Summary: good illustrations, bad writing
Review: I don't understand any of these other reviewers. The book has lots of colorful illustrations, and the thickness make the book look comprehensive, but the writing seems to need more organization. Surely it could have been written more concisely. Incredibly boring to read through.
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