Prescott's Microbiology

The author team of Prescott’s Microbiology continues the tradition of past editions by providing a balanced, comprehensive introduction to all major areas of microbiology. Because of this balance, Microbiology is appropriate for microbiology majors and mixed majors courses. The new authors have focused on readability, artwork, and the integration of several key themes (including evolution, ecology and diversity) throughout the text, making an already superior text even better.

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By Onlinenow - September 11, 2010

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!!!

By buckyball59 - May 15, 2012

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... read more