Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry, North American Edition (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series) |  | Authors: Pamela C Champe, Richard A Harvey, Denise R Ferrier
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Edition: Fourth Edition
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0781769604
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.39
EAN: 9780781769600
ASIN: 0781769604
Publication Date: July 1, 2007
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Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry enables students to quickly review, assimilate, and integrate large amounts of complex information by utilizing powerful visual resources that deliver the focus and clarification needed for mastery of difficult biochemical concepts. Its signature outline format, full-color illustrations, and end-of-chapter summaries and USMLE-style review questions make it one of the most user-friendly books in the field.
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 Great resource, but a little pricey October 22, 2009
Logan J. Edmiston (Ohio)
I really like this text and found it to be a great supplement during the biochemistry course. It is also great for reviewing concepts for boards, expecially if it has been a while since you looked at biochem. My only problem is the price. When you start adding up board review sources, money flows from your pocket quite quickly. I did find a similar online resource at [...] that costs less than Lipincott's and offers access to good material. My advice would be to subscribe to the website I mentioned and use it in conjunction with a used (and thus cheaper) version of Lippincott's.
 The vividly illustrated biochemical processes relieve chemistry from its austere aura September 2, 2009
Mohamed F. El-Hewie (Hackensack, NJ USA)
After purchasing the biochemistry edition of Lippincott's series, I could not resist ordering the other two books, Pharmacology and Microbiology. The authors seem to get ahead of the game, by offering timely explanation when terminology gets obscure. For example, instead of footnoting the pages, notes are introduced within the paragraphs to complement the flow of thoughts.
The most impressive aspect of the book is the colorful illustrations that show the location of the various pathway reactions and involved reactants. The introduction of colorful graphics, bold font, and frequent notes did away with the austere feature of old teaching of biochemistry.
Great credit goes for the chapter summaries that were done in neat and outstanding design to aid the reader in grasping the main principals of each chapter.
Except of few typographic errors, the major draw back of the book is meager coloring of the atomic changing of molecules after reaction. In many instances, the reader is left to count and trace the new atoms that were added or removed from a molecule that made it different.
In addition, the book reliance on reactants' names, and not chemical formulas, in many spots of the book, challenges the reader's memory in figuring out what had taken place. Even though most of the named chemical reactants have their formulas in nearby pages, the dismissal of the chemical formulas of reactants in many pages, undermine the memorization process.
Do not count on finding extensive references or historical perspectives on how scientific discoveries led to such state of art of modern biochemistry. The authors merely portray an illustrated version of biochemistry for students, not researchers.
Keyword: Review August 30, 2009
Chris
Don't try to learn biochem off this book; it's just a review. But for review, it's good.
Helpful for the MCAT August 17, 2009
C. McLarty
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The chapter summaries, diagrams and figures make this a great study aid for the MCAT. Very clear explanations, with diagrams, of difficult material. The presentation is straight forward and the book is well organized.
Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry February 14, 2009
Avrina Radhanpuri (Temple City, CA)
It's a wonderful book to review Biochemistry especially for the National Board. It's amazing. This book makes all the confusion clears up.....
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