Innovative and up-to-date€”the number one Introduction to Geology textbook.The Fourth Edition of Earth: Portrait of a Planet provides the perfect balance between an authoritative, yet accessible text and a stunning narrative art program. This makes it the book of choice for instructors and students, who all have their own diverse styles of both teaching and learning. The Fourth Edition of this best-selling text constitutes a major revision, packed with recent updates and new features such as beautiful and innovative narrative figures, stimulating inquiry-based pedagogy, a tightened core narrative, hundreds of new photographs, and coverage of hot topics, like the March 2011 earthquake/tsunami that devastated Japan, the rare element crisis, the shifting price of oil, and the recent tornado outbreaks.

Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology

Science & Math

Manuselis Jr. MA MT(ASCP), George

Mahon,Connie

Astronomy & Space Science

Saunders

This 2nd Edition offers students a comprehensive approach to the essential information they need in identifying etiologic agents of infectious diseases. New content has been added on emerging viral pathogens, newly recognized parasitic agents, emerging resistance, and emerging technologies. Pedagogical features include tables, procedures, case studies, and illustrations. Information is presented to beginning level students in a logical approach to microbiology progressing from core principles and concepts to systematic identification of etiologic agents of infectious disease. A saleable instructor's CD-ROM is also available.
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Student-friendly approach- Illustrations and Procedures clarify information and show students what to expect in the laboratory. Tables and Boxes pull key information out of the text and put it in a more memorable format</li>
Level of Content - Carefully written chapters are not cluttered with esoteric information that might overwhelm students<li>
The chapters on using Gram Stain and colonial morphology are unique to this text - This text provides all the background necessary for assimilation and recall of difficult information</li>
Organ-System Approach to Diagnosis - This approach makes the text come alive for students, because they can immediately fit their laboratory work into the larger picture<li>Emerging viral pathogens, newly recognized parasitic agents, emerging resistance, and emerging technologies - This important field is constantly changing, and the authors have provided up-to-the minute content</li>

Biological Sciences

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Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology

Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology