Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments

I bought this book for my Cell biology class. As a kid I remember seeing a really early edition of this book at home because my dad took some classes at UF with Gerald Karp. It's great that he has followed the field for so many years and keeps his editions up to date to reflect the latest evidence and new models. All in all a great book, wonderfully written with great figures and beautiful experiments.although it could be cheaper!

Surprisingly well written and easy to read. Save yourself from the outrageous cost of new books, and get the old edition. While new discoveries are always being made, it shouldn't make a difference for school. By the time you need this book, you should be far enough along the way to be required to use peer reviewed articles for new developments anyway.

Amazon estimated the delivery date to be much further off than it turned out to be. The person I ordered it from shipped it right away so I got it under a week of ordering. It was in good condition as promised.

I purchased this book, but ended up returning it because I didn't need it. The shipping was fast and I had no trouble whatsoever shipping the item back and receiving a credit. There was a fee of 3.99 (taken from the total refund) for shipping because there was no mistake made on Amazon's part. But it was well worth it considering the money saved opposed to keeping it.

Good book. It has more information than you will be able to digest. It does not guarantee you an A in the class or even a C. It was just too expensive and they dont give you the answers to the super complicated questions at the end of each chapter!It is more like an encyclopedia of cell biology. It is not very student friendly. This is more like for a grad student class where you already know all these concepts and just need a quick refresher.My professor idolizes the book author and all the scientists that won the nobel for comming up with these concepts, but that does not help me understand the material.Book author: Please write more clear and with less jargon. I am an undergrad for god sakes! Im not a cell biologist or biochemist yet.Pictures are nice but the professor did not tested us on the pictures. My class exams were more like 6 multiple chioce(very hard and the professor never took responsibility for correcting his wrong answers!) 4 short answer questions, and 4 big essay questions that were 2 pages long each and you had to answer them all.If I were a newby on this, I would just buy the older edition for a buck and use it instead.Good luck on cell bio, will be the hardest bio class you will ever take!

the real book is way easier to use, unless weight or space is your main concern. No link to the table of contents. You have to go to the front page and scroll through to it, Graphics are good but it makes page loads very slow, so paging through looking for something takes forever. There are no links to the chapters in the table of contents so you must try to scroll to the right page and same thing for the index in the back. Also they will not let you view the books from the kindle web browser or my iPhone, only a kindle or my table, which greatly reduced it's usefulness. Ebooks should be better than paperbooks, they have the opportunity. But I have yet to find a single one that I was satisfied with and this one is no different. Its just a really big, slow to load pdf file.

Exactly what I ordered. The book came with a little kink in one of the corners of the textbook cover but that is alright with me.

Extremely informative and thorough. The figures in the book really help you grasp the concepts that are being explained.