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MICROBIOLOGY 2013
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NEW 10TH EDITION!
Fundamentals of MicrobiologyTENTH EDITIONJeffrey C. Pommerville, PhD, Glendale Community College ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-8861-5 • Hardcover • 944 pages • © 2014
Every new print copy of the text includes access to the Fundamentals of Microbiology Student Companion Website.
The tenth edition of Jeffrey Pommerville’s best-selling, award-winning text, Fundamentals of Microbiology, provides nursing and allied health students with a firm foundation in microbiology. Updated to reflect the Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Microbiology as recommended by the American Society for Microbiology, the fully revised tenth edition includes all-new pedagogical features and the most current research data. This edition incorporates updates on infectious diseases and the human microbiome, a revised discussion of the immune system, and an expanded Learning Design Concept feature that challenges students to develop critical-thinking skills.
Accessible enough for introductory students and comprehensive enough for more advanced learners, Fundamentals of Microbiology encourages students to synthesize information, think deeply, and develop a broad toolset for analysis and research. Real-life examples, actual published experiments, and engaging figures and tables ensure student success. The text’s design allows students to self-evaluate and build a solid platform of investigative skills. Enjoyable, lively, and challenging, Fundamentals of Microbiology is an essential text for students in the health sciences.
KEY FEATURES OF THE FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED TENTH EDITION INCLUDE:
■ All-new or updated discussions of the human microbiome, infectious diseases, the immune system, and evolution
■ Expanded and updated pedagogical features throughout■ Chapter Challenges and objectives emphasize key concepts
and promote material absorption■ Redesigned and updated figures and tables increase clarity
and student understanding■ Study Smart notes help ensure student success
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Alcamo’s Laboratory Fundamentals of MicrobiologyJeffrey C. Pommerville, PhD, Glendale Community College ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-9557-3 • Spiral • 356 pages • © 2011
This popular lab manual offers thirty-four multi-part lab exercises designed to provide students with basic training in the handling of microorganisms, while exploring microbial properties and uses. This lab manual can also be used independently of the main text. An instructor’s manual, downloadable from the Web, accompanies the lab manual and provides the principles of lab safety; research topic ideas, information on customizing laboratory programs with the manual; helpful suggestions for setting up and running each exercise; and lists of laboratory media, cultures, and special materials used in each exercise.
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The companion Website provides students with a number of tools that will help them navigate course material. Like a tutor, it can help increase the efficiency of their study time and condense the main ideas of the chapter.
■ Vivid animations allow students to see important concepts first-hand, and questions throughout each module test their understanding of the content presented.
■ Chapter Summaries focus on the key points to be absorbed. Students will be able to organize their learning into smaller pieces, making the chapter less overwhelming.
■ Flashcards, Crossword Puzzles, and an Interactive Glossary will allow them to master the necessary vocabulary. ■ The Study Quizzes test understanding of the material studied, and help students estimate how well they will do on the upcoming exams.■ The MicroFocus Links correlate to the MicroFocus Feature Boxes found within the text book, and allow for further examination of the topic. ■ Microbiology in the News explores interesting microbiology topics found in current events.
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Alcamo’s Fundamentals of MicrobiologyBody SystemsSECOND EDITIONJeffrey C. Pommerville, PhD, Glendale Community College ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-3597-8 • Hardcover • 944 pages • © 2013
Now Available with Navigate! Every new copy of the text includes access to the Alcamo’s Fundamentals of Microbiology: Body Systems Student Companion Website
Ideal for allied health and pre-nursing students, Alcamo’s Fundamentals of Microbiology: Body Systems, Second Edition, retains the engaging, student-friendly style and active learning approach for which award-winning author
and educator Jeffrey Pommerville is known. Thoroughly revised and updated, the Second Edition presents diseases, complete with new content on recent discoveries, in a manner that is directly applicable to students and organized by body system. A captivating art program includes more than 150 newly added and revised figures and tables, while new feature boxes, Textbook Cases, serve to better illuminate key concepts. Pommerville’s acclaimed “learning design” format enlightens and engages students right from the start, and new chapter conclusions round out each chapter, leaving readers with a clear understanding of key concepts.
KEY FEATURES OF THE SECOND EDITION:■ Updated and revised throughout to keep pace with this ever-changing field.■ New interactive animations are available online.■ MicroFocus boxes explore captivating topics concerning microbiology and microorganisms.■ MicroInquiry boxes allow students to interactively investigate a vital concept in the chapter.■ Concept and Reasoning Checks measure students comprehension and retention of section material through a series of questions.■ Textbook Case boxes describe and analyze contemporary disease outbreaks.■ Instructor and student resources, including a Student Companion Website and Instructor’s Media CDs are available. Contact your
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NEW 3RD EDITION!
The Microbial ChallengeA Public Health PerspectiveTHIRD EDITIONRobert I. Krasner, PhD, MPH, Providence College Teri Shors, University of Winsconsin, Oshkosh ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-7375-8 • Paperback • 475 pages • © 2014
Every new print copy includes access to the Student Companion Website!
Microbes play a highly significant role in our daily lives as agents of infectious disease and are a major public health concern. The third edition of The Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective addresses this topic and has been extensively revised and updated. It focuses on human-microbe interactions
and considers bacterial, viral, prion, protozoan, fungal, and helminthic (worm) diseases. A chapter on beneficial aspects of microbes makes it clear that not all microbes are disease producers and that microbes are necessary for sustaining life on Earth. Among the topics explored are the response of the immune system, concepts of epidemiology, and measures of control from the individual to the international level to thwart potentially life-threatening epidemics. Sections on fungi and fungal diseases are new and provide current information with modern case data. The Third Edition also includes new and contemporary information on vaccinations, antibiotic resistant microbes, practical disinfection information, virotherapy, and emerging diseases.
KEY FEATURES:■ New sections on fungi, fungal diseases and practical disinfection■ Updated and new topics including synthetic biology, probiotics, fecal transplants, flesh eating bacteria and genetically engineering
influenza viruses in the research laboratory■ New illustrations, photographs, tables, population and epidemiological statistics■ New information on public-private partnerships, including Doctors Without Borders, the World Bank, and the Global Fund for AIDS,
TB and Malaria ■ And much more!
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Alcamo’s Microbes and SocietyTHIRD EDITIONBenjamin S. Weeks, PhD, Adelphi Univeristy ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-9064-6 • Paperback • 550 pages • © 2012
The Third Edition is written for liberal arts students taking a foundation course in the life sciences. It discusses the role of microbes in our everyday lives, from food production to their role in biotechnology and the other ways microbes contribute to our world. It offers students a broad perspective of the extensive impact of various microbes, from both a positive and negative perspective.
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Encounters in VirologyTeri Shors, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-7349-6 • Paperback • 104 pages • © 2013
Encounters in Virology, by author and educator Teri Shors, engages readers with 14 fascinating and thought-provoking case studies pulled from headline news. Each account describes an individual viral disease, along with the signs and symptoms that accompany it, and asks students to become medical detectives as they move along to identify and diagnosis these potentially life-threatening viral diseases. An ideal supplement to any microbiology or virology course, as well as an entertaining and informative read, Encounters in Virology is sure to bring these realistic medical tales to life as readers race against time to solve these medical mysteries.
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Understanding VirusesSECOND EDITIONTeri Shors, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-4892-3 Paperback • 704 pages • © 2012
Written for undergraduate students majoring in biology, microbiology, medical technology, or pre-med, the second edition of Understanding Viruses provides a balanced approach to this fascinating discipline, combining the molecular, clinical, and historical aspects of virology. Updated throughout to keep pace with this fast-moving field, the text provides a strong, comprehensive introduction to human viral diseases. New material on molecular virology as well as new virus families presented, coupled with chapters on viral diseases of non-human animals; the history of clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotranplantation; prions and viroids; plant viruses; and bacteriophages add to the scope of the text. Chapters discussing specific viral diseases weave in an epidemiological and global
perspective and include treatment and prevention information. Contemporary case studies, Refresher Boxes, and Virus Files engage students in the learning process. With a wealth of student and instructor support tools, Understanding Viruses is an accessible, exciting, and engaging text for the modern virology course.
NEW AND KEY FEATURES OF THE SECOND EDITION:■ Contains new material on molecular virology as well as new virus families presented within the text.■ Provides a full-color design and rich pedagogy to help students understand and retain key concepts.■ Combines molecular, clinical, and historical aspects of virology.■ Includes new information on the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.■ Contains an introductory chapter on the history of medicine, clinical trials, xenotransplantation, and gene therapy.
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NEW 7TH EDITION!
AIDS Science & SocietySEVENTH EDITIONHung Y. Fan, Ross F. Conner, & Luis Villarreal, all of University of California, IrvineISBN-13: 978-1-284-02551-4 • Paperback with Access Code 250 pages • © 2014
Updated throughout with the latest findings on the AIDS virus, the Seventh Edition provides readers with the most current information available on the biology of the virus and the impact it has on society. It provides a solid overview of AIDS from both a biomedical and psychosocial perspective and covers the molecular and cellular aspects of the virus and the immune system’s response to it.
Guide to Infectious Disease by Body SystemSECOND EDITIONJeffrey C. Pommerville, PhD, Glendale Community College ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-0591-9 • Paperback • 32 pages • © 2012
The ideal accompaniment to any microbiology, virology, human biology, or allied health course, the Second Edition is a mini atlas of microbial diseases afflicting humans. Organized by body system, each unit presents a brief introduction to the anatomical system and the bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic organisms infecting it.
NEW 6TH EDITION!
AIDS The Biological BasisSIXTH EDITIONBenjamin S. Weeks, Adelphi University Teri Shors, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-1488-1 • Paperback • 370 pages • © 2014
The Sixth Edition of this award-winning text continues to educate readers about effectively controlling the spread of HIV and AIDS. It explores the history of AIDS, includes the latest information on HI testing, and provides background material to help students understand the biological basis of this continuing pandemic.
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