A Photographic Atlas for the Microbiology Laboratory 4th Edition

This book is a fantastic resource for the microbiology student. The plates are beautiful and the captions are fantastically detailed. Especially important and impressive is the background text and the plates that describe the metabolic pathways that the various tests and growth media exploit to bring about their results. This book is actually as much of a chemistry refresher as it is a microbiology textbook and lab book all in one. Seeing the chemical plates really makes you appreciate your chemistry courses again.Also very important are the clear and concise test result tables and captions under the plates. These provide a simple and easy-to-understand means of interpreting the various tests that you will perform in your microbiology lab. In a sense, I could say that a textbook isn't really needed for a microbiology course. If your instructor provides good presentations in your lectures, all you really need is this product for your lab assignments.I highly recommend this text both to professors and students.

Came brand new in plastic wrapping. No bent corners or missing pages. It is loose leaf so you will need a binder. Turned out to be incredibly helpful for my microbiology class, it actually has a lot of useful information without being wordy. Thought this would be another useful purchase required by a teacher but i found myself referencing it for the majority of our assignments.

Good book at a good price.

Our lab was not very organized and I ended up providing a lot of the reference and guidance with this atlas, even though I didn't expect to be doing so at all. Thank God, because at least my lab group did our experiments correctly and also managed to avoid haphazardly infecting other people in the process (other students seemed a bit too cavalier about knocking over petri dishes of E. coli or a Clostridium bacterium). Be the superstar of your micro lab and get this book.

This product arrived within the stated time frame in what appears to be perfect shape as advertised. I have yet to take the plastic encasing off. I do like to be able to track the item, so I make sure to either be home around delivery day, or know specific day it is arriving. The tracking information was not available. Other than that personal preference, the product is great and I will be using it very soon.

Excellent atlas of microbiology! This book does a great job illustrating many microbes that you would otherwise be unable to see. I thought this manual was a good compliment to the required textbook for the course, and it was very handy for use in lab. This is a loose-leaf book, so you will need to purchase a three-ring binder to house this manual. Not a big deal, just wanted to make a note of it for potential future buyers. :)

I just bought this for my microbiology lab because it is a requirement. It is a lot cheaper to buy from Amazon then to buy from the college bookstore. It arrived in brand new condition but shipping cause minor bends in the corner. It is not noticeable though. The pages are very colorful and very detailed in the pictures and explanations. All the pages can fit in a 1 inch 3 ring binder.

It's really a good deal! Atlas came in a very good condition. Pages are clean, still look pretty new. It's a loose leaf edition, so might need to buy a binder. Overall, I'm very happy. Will continue buying used book for school.