microbiology books

	Microbiology and Biotechnology (Cambridge Advanced Sciences)
	By: Pauline Lowrie, Susan Wells ISBN: 0521787238 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 12 October, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 1745942
	Nitrification and Denitrification in the Activated Sludge Process (Wastewater Microbiology Series)
	By: UNKNOWN ISBN: Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Release Date: Bioscience book rank: 27071	Good discussion of the biological nitrification and denitrification process. The book is somewhat somewhat repetitive, but if you are only reading one or two chapters, it is a good reference book.
	Ground-Water Microbiology and Geochemistry
	By: Francis H. Chapelle ISBN: 047134852X Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 26 October, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 722996	This second edition is just as full of typos as the first, an average of 1/page, from misuse of "it's" to alternation of the spelling of Monod (Monad), to slipping the superscript so 10^5 becomes 105. The illustrations are fine and clear, and subject to the same mispelling.<br>The author is with the USGeological Survey, which at least used to be a paragon of critical editing, and one had hoped for better proofing in this expansion of the widely used and acclaimed text. A book at this price that stands to be a long-lived authority should have received better. <br>The expansion is welcome, since geomicrobiology is advancing so fast that the first edition was already out of date. Much of the expansion is given to petroleum hydrocarbons (with a couple of pages on MTBE) and chlorinated solvents, some of which has again become dated since the second edition, already, some of which appears catering to school classes.<br>Some of the more mysterious questions of geomicrobiology are still avoided (e.g. how do microbes get into clayey deposits where pores are smaller than average bugs and pore throats are much smaller? did individuals get buried with the sediment and adapt to survive millions of years in virtual dormancy?). And Chapelle cannot quite bring himself to adopt the new divisions of Archaea and Bacteria, using the term bacteria to refer to both, in the old style, although he acknowledges the newer thinking.<br>Unfortunately, in such a small specialty, the existence of an authoritative edition discourages challengers, and we will no doubt wait another or ten years for another geomicrobiology text. <br>If you are thinking about this book as a reference, rather than a required text, you might look instead at the American Society for Microbiology's Manual of Environmental Microbiology, ed. Hurst, 1997, ASM Press. This is a collection of articles by 90 or so microbiologists that you can probably get used, is 900 p with considerably more breadth and depth than Chapelle, and is a bibliophile's delight. Chapelle has a section in Envir Microbio, which seems to be typo-free.<br>Envir Microbio also contains, for instance in a section on landfill processes, relatively extensive material on fermentation, which gets about a paragraph in Chapelle's book. Fermentation is very important in groundwater bioremediation, but typically gets short shrift because it is complicated and inefficient, and hard to track because it does not consume electron acceptors, and many of its products (typically acids) do not show up in traditional chemical analyses. Landfill engineers know a lot more about fermentation than geomicrobiologists.<br>Chapelle is also disappointing in not having stretched this edition to cover the budding discipline of isotopic fractionation in documenting microbial attenuation processes. To be sure, most of the published work using GC IRMS to separate and measure isotope ratios of individual organic compounds post-dates this second edition, but he must have been aware of these developments. He mentions some traditional isotopes to evidence evolution of some systems.<br><br>Chapelle's index is also skimpy. No page reference, for instance, for iron reducing bacteria, although he discusses them at some length, mentioning Geobacter chapelleii, named, deservedly, after himself. <br>But no scientific book goes as far as we would like down our special interests. Science literature is a work in progress, not a bible, and it is silly to expect The Book of Geomicrobiology & Geochemistry. I am not sending my Chapelle back.
	Louis Pasteur: And the Founding of Microbiology (Renaissance Scientists)
	By: Jane Ackerman ISBN: 1931798133 Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing Release Date: January, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 1527486	This is the true story of how a stubborn, compassionate, patriotic genius saves France -- and the world -- from disease and disaster time and again. <p>Louis Pasteur developed the vaccine for rabies and discovered the mystery of how anthrax was spread. These discoveries saved countless lives. He also saved the world an unknowable fortune with his discoveries that saved the French silk and wine industries. His method of heating food to prevent spoilage, pasteurization, revolutionized nearly every aspect of growing, shipping, and preparing food and drink.<p>The science involved in these profound discoveries can be complicated, but Ackerman presents them clearly and in an interesting, readable way. <p>We get to know the many sides of Pastuer, the driven scientist, the struggling student (who is also courting his future wife, Marie) the grief-strickn father, (He loses three of his children to disease)and the great and honored hero-scientist.<p>We come away from the book with a new understanding of microbiology and the man who founded it.
	Meat and Meat Products: Technology, Chemistry and Microbiology (Food Products Series)
	By: A. Varnam, J.M. Sutherland ISBN: 0412495600 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 31 December, 1995 Bioscience book rank: 1777414	i would like to have more informations about the book, e.g is the book contains meat chart, the parts of meats and etc.. your informations much appreciated. The book has been used at the school for higher education in Food Science and Technology: The Van Hall Institute Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. The good things of the book are: It is easy to find your way in the book. The book is not too simple. It is really meat-technology in the book no butchery. It is a pitty that the book is difficult to read, and that the topics are typical brittish. Waterbinding does not get any attention at all. Addition of experiments would be good.
	Microbiology : An Introduction, 8th Edition 812970417x Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke & Christine L. Case
	By: Berdell R. Funke & Christine L. Case Gerard J. Tortora ISBN: 812970417X Publisher: Pearson Education, Release Date: 2004 Bioscience book rank: 958057
	Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases
	By: Gabriel T Virella ISBN: 0683307126 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 15 April, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 1229107
	Pharmaceutical Quality Control Microbiology: A Guidebook to the Basics
	By: Scott Sutton ISBN: 1933722088 Publisher: Parenteral Drug Assn Release Date: June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1994711
	Wastewater Bacteria (Wastewater Microbiology)
	By: Michael H. Gerardi ISBN: 0471206911 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Release Date: 14 April, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 485532
	Microbiology in Patient Care
	By: Josephine A. Morello, Helen Eckel Mizer, Marion E. Wilson, Paul A. Granato ISBN: 0697257630 Publisher: William C. Brown Release Date: August, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 1883021