Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess

Foundations in Microbiology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional Approach is an alternate version of Wardlaw-Smith's Contemporary Nutrition 8e. While Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional Approach shares the recognized strengths of the eighth edition, it offers a unique approach to the coverage of vitamins and minerals. It departs from a traditional presentation by instead organizing vitamins and minerals within the context of physiological functions and the health conditions they influence. The text will provide students who lack a strong science background the ideal balance of reliable nutrition information and practical consumer-oriented knowledge. With their friendly writing style, the authors act as the student's personal guide to dispelling common misconceptions and to gaining a solid foundation for making informed nutrition choices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 828
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 231mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 2177g
• ISBN-13: 9780073375298
• ISBN-10: 0073375292
• Artikelnr.: 32463591

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Park Talaro is a microbiologist, educator, author, and artist. She has been nurturing her love of microbiology since her youth growing up on an Idaho farm where she was first fascinated by tiny creatures she could just barely see swimming in a pond. This interest in the microbial world led to a biology major at Idaho State University, where she worked as a teaching assistant and scientific illustrator for one of her professors. This was the beginning of an avocation that she continues today-that of lending her artistic hand to interpretation of scientific concepts. She continued her education at Arizona State University, Occidental College, California Institute of Technology, and California State University. She has taught microbiology and major's biology courses at Pasadena City College for 30 years, during which time she developed new curricula and refined laboratory experiments. She has been an author of, and contributor to, several publications of the William C. Brown Company and McGraw-Hill Publishers since the early 1980s, first illustrating and writing for laboratory manuals and later developing this textbook. She has also served as a coauthor with Kelly Cowan on the first two editions of Microbiology: A Systems Approach. Kathy continues to make microbiology a major focus of her life and is passionate about conveying the significance and practical knowledge of the subject to students, colleagues, family, friends, and practically anyone who shows interest. In addition to her writing and illustration, she keeps current attending conferences and participating in the American Society for Microbiology and its undergraduate educational programs. She is gratified by the many supportive notes and letters she has received over the years from devotees of microbiology and users of her book. She lives in Altadena, California, with husband Dave Bedrosian, and son David. Whenever she can, she visits her family in Idaho. In her spare time, she enjoys photography, reading true crime books, music, crossword puzzles, and playing with her rescued kitties.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Main Themes of Microbiology2. The Chemistry of Biology3. Tools of
the Laboratory: Methods of Studying Microorganisms4. A Survey of
Prokaryotic Cells and Microorganisms5. A Survey of Eukaryotic Cells and
Microorganisms 6. An Introduction to Viruses7. Microbial Nutrition,
Ecology, and Growth8. An Introduction to Microbial Metabolism: The Chemical
Crossroads of Life 9. Microbial Genetics10. Genetic Engineering: A
Revolution in Molecular Biology11. Physical and Chemical Agents for
Microbial Control12. Drugs, Microbes, Host--The Elements of Chemotherapy13.
Microbe-Human Interactions: Infection and Disease14. An Introduction to
Host Defenses and Innate Immunities 15. Adaptive, Specific Immunity and
Immunization16. Disorders in Immunity17. Procedures for Identifying
Pathogens and Diagnosing Infections18. The Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative
Cocci of Medical Importance19. The Gram-Positive Bacilli of Medical
Importance20. The Gram-Negative Bacilli of Medical Importance21.
Miscellaneous Bacterial Agents of Disease22. The Fungi of Medical
Importance23. The Parasites of Medical Importance24. Introduction to
Viruses That Infect Humans: The DNA Viruses25. The RNA Viruses That Infect
Humans26. Environmental Microbiology27. Applied and Industrial Microbiology