The Immune System | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Parham
Publisher: Garland Science
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 40133
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 456
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0815340931
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.079
EAN: 9780815340935
ASIN: 0815340931
Publication Date: May 25, 2004
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Condition: Still in original plastic wrapping
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Product Description
The Immune System, Second Edition has been designed for use in immunology courses for undergraduate, medical, dental, and pharmacy students. This class-tested and successful textbook synthesizes the established facts of immunology into a comprehensible, coherent, and up-to-date account of how the immune system works, rather than presenting immunology as a chronology of experiments and discoveries. Emphasizing the human immune system the text has been designed to break down the barriers which often divide basic and clinical immunology. The reader-friendly text, section and chapter summaries, and full-color illustrations make the book accessible and easily understandable to students. The Immune System is adapted from Immunobiology by Janeway, Travers & Walport.
New in the Second Edition:
-Inclusion of end-of-chapter questions throughout the book. Questions consist of a mix of clinical and basic science. Detailed answers to all questions are provided in the back of the book.
-Completely updated throughout.
-Even greater emphasis on human immunity.
-Enhanced and revised treatment of the complement system, including new figures and icons to clarify concepts.
-Increased emphasis on human genetics throughout the book.
-Expanded and updated treatment of innate immunity, particularly the mucosal system.
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 Concise and accessible August 27, 2008
This is a superb textbook. The prose is easy to read, somehow managing to be concise without sacrificing accessibility. Important concepts are explained very lucidly, and then repeatedly touched on throughout the book, ensuring that they stick with the reader. Also worthy of mention are the book's many figures, which illustrate mechanisms and processes very clearly. This stands out as one of my favorite texts from my medical education; I wish all my books were so easy to read. A great resource for anyone studying the immune system.
 Is it really all that great? August 15, 2008
Here is the deal, this is not a quick read. I heard so many good things about this book that I was convinced it would be a piece of cake to read. Lets all get real. Immunology is not a simple subject for any book, and this one doesn't make things any different. The author doesn't have the magical touch to explain things in a clear many any more than another author does. It reads just like a molecular biology textbook would. However, it does have its strong points. The book is only about 450pg long, which is slim for a text. All of the main ideas can be understood by looking at the pictures and reading the captions to the picture. The author also has summary paragraphs, most of the time there are two per chapter with a full chapter summary at the end. Every chapter ends with good questions that make you think. Overall, however, the real power of this book is the pictures with captions. The entire book can be understood from these alone. For this reason I recommend having the book, but it isn't going to be the key to success for everyone.
 This book is quick to the point June 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hate most of my bio books because they aren't very quick to the point that we need to understand and know; however, this book is not bad at all. It could've been better and it's not as specific as my Prof but it's good enough to use for the couple next years.
Very good, clear written and easy to read! June 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Shalom everyone, I am a 4th year medicine student in Italy.
I have bought this book since I was about to start a rheumatology and clinical immunology course.
I found that "The Immune System by Peter Parham" is a very clear written book, filled with colorful diagrams and very simple to understand pictures.
Every paragraph starts with a subtitle, a preview and very slowly, it proceeds from the most simple and general descriptions to the deepest. Important are the short phrases it's made of, there almost no long complex phrases. Brick after brick.
The book is very easy to understand, yet very comprehensive. I read a third of the book in less than a week, and I found I remembered most of it, without even repeating it too much.
At the end of every chapter there are open questions with full answers at the end of the book.
One of the important qualities this book have is that it made me curious about immunology! I have already a B.A. degree from the Hebrew university and I have already studied immunology, but now, for the first time I find it interesting and complex, yet Peter Parham explains it in a very clear way.
I wish I had more books written by this author... I know I should write something negative about the book, for the balance or integrity, but tell you the truth, I find none. It's not cheap, but worth every euro.
Yehuda Malul, Italy.
Good Book August 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a good basic immunology book. Easy to understand (even if your background in immunology is minimal). I will definitely hold on to this book for reference.
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