By David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox
- Publisher: W. H. Freeman
- Number Of Pages: 1100
- Publication Date: 2004-04-23
- ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0716743396
- ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780716743392
- Binding: Hardcover
Summary: This book is good for non-medical professions
Rating: 3
When I took this book for the first time I thought – wow they probably made the well-known Leninger book more illustrated, maybe added something new – let’s read it. But from the first chapters I realized – there is nothing left from the original book. There is too much water in this book. You can for example read like 30 pages and then stop and ask yourself – Ok what have I’ve learned. And the answer is “not too much”, because what was written in 30 pages in fact can be written in 5. I recommend the editors to change the name “Leninger – Principles of biochemistry” for something like – “Very general principles of biochemistry”. Though I can not tell that the entire book is bad – starting with metabolic pathways I found some new details and information I didn’t know about, but in general it was a waste of time and money to buy and read this book.