Biochemistry is a major new textbook designed and created specifically for briefer courses in the subject. Written by Prof. Terry Brown of the University of Manchester (author of
Genomes and
Gene Cloning), the book provides the necessary detail and rigour expected for these courses, but without the extraneous material found in the larger textbooks.
With an increasing number of students taking a short course in biochemistry there is a growing need for a book that covers the subject concisely and succinctly.
Biochemistry has been designed from the outset for these shorter courses; it is not a cut-down version of one of the larger books that dominate the market.
Although it is shorter, there is no compromise in content, style and coverage. The book is attractively designed in full colour throughout with all the pedagogical features expected in a major textbook. It covers what students should be expected to know and is written in the clear and accurate writing style for which Terry Brown is widely lauded.
With its competitive price and resources for adopting lecturers (all of the illustrations and diagrams from the book, and answers to the end of chapter questions),
Biochemistry will become the textbook of choice for any brief biochemistry course.
Confirmed adoptions
Biochemistry is already the recommended text at the following institutions:
- Becker College, USA
- Bishop Burton College, UK
- Bournemouth University, UK
- Charleston Southern University, USA
- Colorado State University – Pueblo, USA
- Liverpool John Moores University, UK
- Newcastle University, UK
- Rivier University, USA
- Staffordshire University, UK
- Stephen S Austin State University, USA
- Texas Christian University, USA
- Umeå University, Sweden
- University of Aberdeen, UK
- University of Bedfordshire, UK
- University of Brighton, UK
- University of the Incarnate Word, USA
- University of Kansas, USA
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA
- University of Nottingham, UK
- University of Roehampton, UK
- University of Salford, UK
- University of the West of England, UK
- University of Tulsa, USA
- Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Contents
Chapter 1 Biochemistry in the modern world
PART I CELLS, ORGANISMS AND BIOMOLECULES Chapter 2 Cells and organisms
Chapter 3 Proteins
Chapter 4 Nucleic acids
Chapter 5 Lipids and biological membranes
Chapter 6 Carbohydrates
PART II ENERGY GENERATION AND METABOLISM Chapter 7 Enzymes
Chapter 8 Energy generation: glycolysis
Chapter 9 Energy generation: the TCA cycle and electron transport chain
Chapter 10 Photosynthesis
Chapter 11 Carbohydrate metabolism
Chapter 12 Lipid metabolism
Chapter 13 Nitrogen metabolism
PART III STORAGE OF BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION AND SYNTHESIS OF PROTEINS Chapter 14 DNA replication and repair
Chapter 15 RNA synthesis
Chapter 16 Protein synthesis
Chapter 17 Control of gene expression
PART IV STUDYING BIOMOLECULES Chapter 18 Studying proteins, lipids and carbohydrates
Chapter 19 Studying DNA and RNA
Professor Terry Brown graduated from Queen Elizabeth College, London with a BSc Hons in Microbiology in 1974, and from University College London with a PhD in 1977. He joined the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology as a postdoctoral researcher in 1981, and has remained in Manchester ever since, becoming the UK's first Professor of Biomolecular Archaeology in 2000. He was Head of Biomolecular Sciences from 2002–2004 and has been Associate Dean in Life Sciences since 2004.
