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Textbook of Biochemistry With Clinical Correlations (Textbook of Biochemistry w/ Clinical Correlations)
by: Thomas M. Devlin |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 612.015 EAN: 9780471678083 Edition: 6 ISBN: 0471678082 Label: Wiley-Liss Manufacturer: Wiley-Liss Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1240 Publication Date: December 16, 2005 Publisher: Wiley-Liss Studio: Wiley-Liss |
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  - Good text for grad level courseI am currently teaching my first year of medical biochemistry and this book is a nice balance. Not as "hard core" on the chemistry as Voet & Voet, but more comprehensive than Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews or Baynes and Dominiczak's Medical Biochemistry. Similar in depth to Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry but slightly less emphasis on the medical aspects. Decent illustrations and the clinical coorelations boxed seperately within the text is a nice feature. Rating:  - ReviewI ordered the 6th edition of this textbook and I received the 5th edition. I have tried to contact the seller and she has not gotten back with me. I would not buy anything from this seller. BEWARE Rating: - Good - in partsI wanted to get a textbook that allows me to get up to speed again with mammalian biochemistry and I bought this book in preference to more general textbooks. And on the whole I am impressed - the writing and the diagrams are clear and accurate. There is one issue however that has made a serious black mark: units. I would expect a modern textbook to use SI units throughout. The problem here is that the book skips between Calories and Joules almost at random depending upon the particular author involved. The chapter on Bioenergetics gloriously uses both - but in different parts of the chapter (for example Free-Energy Change for hexokinase is in kcals whereas the section on Free-Energy Changes in redox reactions is in joules! - without the other unit in both cases). I have an elderly copy of Lehninger from the 1970's that exclusively uses SI units and so to see a modern (2005) book still using Calories is deeply disappointing. Yes it's an irritant (even I can convert between joules and calories - 4.18) and shouldn't detract from the book but thats not the point. It just shouldn't happen and it reflects badly on the general editor Rating:  - A MESS of a bookI had to use this book for my Biochemistry class. My major is Nutrition & Dietetics, and I already graduated. This book is just awful. Like someone else wrote, if you need to find a term or a figure, you have to look in almost the whole book, and you may still won't understand what you were looking for, or even worse, you'll get more confused. Devlin finds the hardest way to explain an easy term or fact you can explain a lot easier. This is just not worth it. Do not buy this book, there are other books a lot better. Rating: - A new low......Devlin redefines our concept of confusionSenior in college, double major Biology and Chemistry. This is the worst book I have ever used. Two brief examples.. looking for a figure? On the previous (or next) page or 100pages further down the book. Thought Marcel Proust could write endless sentences? Hold on! devlin can spend four to five lines, with "bold term" to explain something you won't understand the 10th time around. Don't waste your time, don't waste your money....stay away from this mess of a book. |
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