Reviews for Essential Cell Biology

The average rating for Essential Cell Biology based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-07 00:00:00 ERnest GOnzales I'm slightly conflicted as to what to say about this book? I'll start with the positives though. Firstly, it's a great book with a lot of information and it's extremely easy to understand. It doesn't need anyone with any background knowledge to any of the subjects though basic scientific knowledge is preferred or else you will spend some extra time going through everything so you can comprehend it. It was recommended by my university course as the primary source book for the Cell Biology course. A+ for the diagrams and illustrations. Okay, here is where I only give it the 4 starts instead of 5 (a 4.5 would be more fair to be honest, but this is why I don't like giving specific ratings...). There is a lot of missing information that can be essential depending on your course material. It does not cover everything in general. There is always something here or there that can be important and you don't understand the second paragraph because there is no further explanation nor can you look it up in the glossary. You end up having a certain idea but cannot grasp it fully because you weren't able to. My issue with that is, despite that you can look it up on the internet, you did not get the book to use another source to retrieve such information. Because it already has so much in-depth details about non-essentials, so why not use some of the energy on that on other things? Maybe the differences can be in the editions, or maybe it simply comes down to subjective impressions of the authors of the book. I will still recommend the book though. It does something, a lot of other educational books cannot do.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-09 00:00:00 Russ Hubler An extensive read that starts from the basics and goes into some more in depth information. You can get a solid foundation to pass your exam in cell biology. I would reccommend it to anyone who is interested in learning how cells function.