The Machinery of Life Volume 14 || Introduction

✍ Scribed by Goodsell, David S.

• Book ID: 115530232
• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 504 KB
• Edition: 2nd ed., corrected
• Category: Article
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0387849254
• DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84925-6_1

✦ Synopsis

I purchased this book because I wanted to know more about the subject. It was described as written for the general public. I found the author's style to be excellent. The book starts out with discussions of the E. Coli, a cell with a single compartment. When the explanation of this cell type is done, it goes into a discussion of a yeast cell, a type having multiple compartments. In the process one becomes familiar with amino acids, enzymes, viruses and the like. I read and enjoyed the book thoroughly, and found another book by David Goodsell, "Our Molecular Nature", which is written in the same style.