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Microbiology: Diversity, Disease, and the Environment
Abigail A. Salyers,
Univ. of Illinois, USA
Dixie D. Whitt,
Univ. of Illinois, USA
ISBN: 978-1-891786-01-3
©2000
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Hallmark Features
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Authoritative coverage and authors. Abigail Salyers and Dixie Whitt are renowned as scientists and educators. The authors' first book, Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach (ASM Press, 1994) was widely hailed as a landmark text in microbial pathogenesis and has been used at hundreds of colleges and universities around the world.
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A lean, mean, pedagogical machine for students. Each chapter contains detailed study outlines and thought provoking review questions (with detailed, suggested answers). Boxed elements in all chapters recount fascinating historical highlights and point out provocative public policy issues. A complete glossary is in the back of the book, and a list of important Web sites is listed at the end of each chapter.
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New update chapter on Bioterrorism. This timely chapter helps students understand the science and implications behind this area of Microbiology. This chapter is available for download through the text website.
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A complete package that instructors can adopt without hassle. All of the art figures in the book are available to instructors in PowerPoint? format to ease lecture and lab presentations. A complete test bank with over 300 multiple-choice test questions is also provided on the Instructor's Digital Resource that is available free in CD-ROM format to all adopters. A Web site for the book contains a new chapter on Bioterrorism that can be downloaded and used in classes free of charge.
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A tremendous value for faculty and students. The book is approx. 600 pages, paperback, large trim size, with approx. 240 figures in two and four colors. This text is priced at a little more than half the cost of other introductory microbiology texts.
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