The Cell: A Molecular Approach

I got my book before expected time and in good condition. I have read previous edition of this book and found it helpful because of its diagrams and easy explanation. This paperback also has 3 holes in margin if in case reader wish to put book in ring binder. Thank you

Good reference book

Beautiful book!And Yes , in good condition :-)Great content for cell biology.Thankyou Amazon

This was a satisfactory purchase. Book was delivered in a good condition, earlier than expected.

Fentastic book for cell and molecula biology. Picture quality is superb.

Its good that we can have such a good book in low price

Intially i thought paper will not be that good,but it comes with kind of photo paper.i just loved it!

Comprehensive

As an inveterate geek my curiosity about the workings of the world is as voracious now, in my middle fifties, as it was when i was given my first microscope at the age of eight. My teenage passion for astronomy, led to a degree course in astrophysics. My eventual arrival at a career in programming led to an absorption with computer science and the nature of intelligence, both artificial and human. Immersion in the philosophy of mind and a search for the roots and connections between consciousness, intelligence and computation, ultimately necessitated a firmer grounding in the state of the art in neuroscience. This I acquired through the reading of the most excellent  Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (**) . Here in particular I kept running into references to genes, genetics and gene expression, and it became clear that I needed to firm up my relatively fuzzy comprehension of the whole rigmarole of DNA and RNA and their supporting molecular cast. The first step here was the superb introductory  Genetics For Dummies . I wasn't intending at that point for the biology to become too big a diversion from my path through the mind sciences, but my interest was severely piqued by the end when I realised that genetics was only the start of the story, that genes were the blueprints for proteins, and that to really understand life was to understand proteins and the multitude of functions they perform. So now the golden thread has led me here, to this book, and a breathtakingly mind-transfiguring tome it has turned out to be. I feel like I see the world afresh, even to the point that my residual squeamishness about meat and animal organs seems to have been replaced by a spangled fascination. It has taken me around six weeks to read, and I have enjoyed reading it in parallel with two higher-level books on the same subject matter by the talented David Goodsell; These were  The Machinery of Life , a wonderfully illustrated molecular-biological miniature coffee-table book that presents an eagle-eye view of the world of the molecular machines inside the cell, and  Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature (Life Sciences)  (I managed to find it cheap on the Marketplace), which is an an analysis of the evolutionary 'design' principles that can drawn from cellular protein machinery with a view to their incorporation into nanotechnology research.To be able to grasp in one's mind's-eye the three dimensional, moving image of the cyclic processes of the living cell's mechanism is, in many ways, to contemplate the ultimate mandala. It is to form an endlessly deepening acquaintance with the actual meaning of the word 'organic'. If physics is the facilitator of the journey on the dimensions of space and time, from the totality of the macrocosm to the ultimate microcosm, then molecular biology is the journey into the dimension of complexity, a fathoming of the inherent potential within the motorised lego set that is the elements of the periodic table, and the particularly interesting permutations they can enter into in certain rare energy regimes, like the one that briefly prevailed on earth just a few hundred million years after it had formed and cooled enough to sustain permanent bodies of liquid water. In this amazing and best of all possible times to be alive the details of these processes are being opened up to us with astonishing rapidity, and presented for us to learn from, to emulate, and perhaps one day to extend to new domains as yet unexplored by random evolution. Call me a geek, but the vision vouchsafed is as beautiful, if not more so than any flower or face or sunset. Science is just amazing. Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (**)Genetics For DummiesThe Machinery of LifeBionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature (Life Sciences)

The cell a molecular approach is a textbook anyone in the field of Molecular Biology should have in handy.. When it comes to cell communication ie cell signalling it holds the perfect explanation. I call it a first class Biological tool for modern day scientists. Pretty cool in good state and condition as described by the seller.. My parcel arrived in good time and condition. Thanks ETCbooks. Thanks to Amazon for making life easier.. ciao.

A MUST for anybody interested in cellular biology. Very clear, well explained, and well supported with colour drawings, diagrams and pictures and website animatios that make this science accessible to anybody! For scientists and beginners. Really excellent!!

Good condition

Great book for those studying biosciences