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The Immune System
by: Peter Parham |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 616.079 EAN: 9780815330431 Edition: 1 ISBN: 081533043X Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 372 Publication Date: January 15, 2000 Publisher: Routledge Studio: Routledge |
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  - Pretty goodIt gets the information across and I haven't fallen asleep yet. I'm only on chapter two and I can tell its going to get much harder but its not bad and it has helpful pictures contrary to what my professor thinks. They get the point across very well and any undergraduate should be able to understand them. I would keep this book and thanks to Amazon it isn't too expensive. Rating:  - Concise and accessibleThis is a superb textbook. The prose is easy to read, somehow managing to be concise without sacrificing accessibility. Important concepts are explained very lucidly, and then repeatedly touched on throughout the book, ensuring that they stick with the reader. Also worthy of mention are the book's many figures, which illustrate mechanisms and processes very clearly. This stands out as one of my favorite texts from my medical education; I wish all my books were so easy to read. A great resource for anyone studying the immune system. Rating:  - Is it really all that great?Here is the deal, this is not a quick read. I heard so many good things about this book that I was convinced it would be a piece of cake to read. Lets all get real. Immunology is not a simple subject for any book, and this one doesn't make things any different. The author doesn't have the magical touch to explain things in a clear many any more than another author does. It reads just like a molecular biology textbook would. However, it does have its strong points. The book is only about 450pg long, which is slim for a text. All of the main ideas can be understood by looking at the pictures and reading the captions to the picture. The author also has summary paragraphs, most of the time there are two per chapter with a full chapter summary at the end. Every chapter ends with good questions that make you think. Overall, however, the real power of this book is the pictures with captions. The entire book can be understood from these alone. For this reason I recommend having the book, but it isn't going to be the key to success for everyone. Rating: - This book is quick to the pointI hate most of my bio books because they aren't very quick to the point that we need to understand and know; however, this book is not bad at all. It could've been better and it's not as specific as my Prof but it's good enough to use for the couple next years. Rating: - Very good, clear written and easy to read!Shalom everyone, I am a 4th year medicine student in Italy. I have bought this book since I was about to start a rheumatology and clinical immunology course. I found that "The Immune System by Peter Parham" is a very clear written book, filled with colorful diagrams and very simple to understand pictures. Every paragraph starts with a subtitle, a preview and very slowly, it proceeds from the most simple and general descriptions to the deepest. Important are the short phrases it's made of, there almost no long complex phrases. Brick after brick. The book is very easy to understand, yet very comprehensive. I read a third of the book in less than a week, and I found I remembered most of it, without even repeating it too much. At the end of every chapter there are open questions with full answers at the end of the book. One of the important qualities this book have is that it made me curious about immunology! I have already a B.A. degree from the Hebrew university and I have already studied immunology, but now, for the first time I find it interesting and complex, yet Peter Parham explains it in a very clear way. I wish I had more books written by this author... I know I should write something negative about the book, for the balance or integrity, but tell you the truth, I find none. It's not cheap, but worth every euro. Yehuda Malul, Italy. |
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