Essential Cell Biology

THIS is my final book on Cell Biology. I'm retired, and still intellectually curious, so several years ago I bought Molecular Cell Biology by Harvey Lodish, et al. I got almost half-way through it before I discovered a newer and even more complete text, Microbiology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts, et al, and bought it. I got several chapters into it until age and decreased energy made it harder to get through. I should admit that I would never have been able to get through that entire book and remember most of it, as a microbiologist would have to do (I majored in engineering). So I looked for a simpler book on the same subject and found Essential Cell Biology by Bruce Alberts, et al (a very different one from the book by Alberts mentioned above). I got the 4th edition of it (cheaper but published in 2004), and enjoyed it. I got as far as how chloroplasts in plants generate energy, and decided I needed a more updated book, so I bought this book. Of course it's better than the 4th edition (19 years newer). I can understand all of it and feel like I've learned everything I wanted to, because it is written for someone like me (it's not simplistic like Biology for Dummies).

Imaging on Kindle version comes through even on iPhone, the essential info becomes accessible anywhere; companion to any study of microbiology