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Harper's Biochemistry
by: Robert K. Murray, Daryl K. Granner, Peter A. Mayes, Victor W. Rodwell |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780838536841 Edition: 25th ISBN: 0838536840 Label: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 927 Publication Date: August 28, 1999 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co Studio: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co |
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  - worse than tlephone bookHarper's biochemistry book is even worse than ordinary telephone book. It does not contain properly built chapters. Knowledge presented in this book is too simplistic. This is only the list of known biochemical facts without any further analysis. This book contains too many errors in given compounds formulas, what cannot be explained by ordinary mistakes in printing. I would recommend to use Stryer's book instead of this one. This book is a disaster. Rating:  - Biochemistry for DummiesI am a medical school professor and am familiar with the different biochemistry textbooks. Harper's is a simplified text book that does not have the detail of depth of information one finds in the gold-standard texts of Lehninger or Stryer. There is a reason why these texts and not Harper's are much more commonly found in the undergraduate, graduate and medical school classrooms. Harper's is ok for the educated layperson or for the non-biologist who wants an overview of biochemistry. Rating:  - ComplicatedI'm a second year med student and this is the most difficult book I have to read. No so much because of the difficulty of the subject but cause it's written in so complicated way. Also to fully understand the contents I think one must have somewhat biochemical background. Which alot of people don't have. I find myself reading more from wikipeadia then from the book! Rating:  - great for reviewWhile this book may not give quite the same level of detail found in some of the more massive and expensive intro to biochem texts, it is nevertheless a valuable reference. The fundamentals are all here, in an admirably clear and concise form. That makes going back to review much easier than with the fat books. In that way, this book fills an important gap in the field of available texts. If however one comes across a particularly difficult concept, the concise explanations may leave them wanting or needing more. In fairness though, I think a lot of the fatter books have the same drawback despite their longwindedness. Afterall, biochemistry can be pretty tough no matter what book you're looking at. If you are using the book as part of a class, then theoretically that is why there is an instructor, lectures and tutorial sessions. Admittedly, and to the student's detriment, the system doesn't always work out that way. I've found the book to be excellent for review because of its brevity and clarity. This book also gets high marks for attempting to point out the clinical relevance of the material, something that cannot be said for the majority of the big textbooks. Rating: - Way better than the others I tried to read.I tried reading two other books, and found this book is much easier to read. It is shorter, which is perhaps why I found it more accessible. Its illustrations and descriptions are clear and understandable. It's well organized and it doesn't waste the reader's time by going on and on about trivial, irrelevant stuff (part of being well organized: one flaw I found in chemistry books of all types was a tendency to go on and on about some totally minute and irrelevant example, so that it was hard to separate core principles from time-wasting detail.) The depth of coverage is no doubt not so deep as those great big monstrous books, but I feel I learned more even if all I learned were general principles. I really like this book. |
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