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BOOK REVIEWS: POST SECONDARY
Timothy E. Secott, Minnesota State University
Karen A. Reiner, Andrews University
David Wessner, Davidson College
Nighat P. Kokan, Cardinal Stritch University
Jeffrey Lee, Essex County College
Alexandra Kurtz, Georgia Gwinnett College
Nighat P. Kokan, Cardinal Stritch University
Kimberly A. Murphy, Waldorf College
Joanne J. Dobbins, Bellarmine University
Milind Deshpande, University of Iowa
Timothy E. Secott, Minnesota State University
Edward S. Morrow Jr. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Kim Risley, Mount Union College
BOOK REVIEWS: K - 12
Germ Proof Your Kids-The Complete Guide to Protecting (without Overprotecting) Your Family from Infections
Kathryn Sutton, Clarke College
BOOK REVIEWS: LABORATORY MANUALS
Elaine O. Hardwick, University of Wisconsin—River Falls
Karen E. Russo, Bayer HealthCare, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
Karen E. Russo, Bayer HealthCare, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
SOFTWARE REVIEW
VIDEO REVIEWS
Jeffrey Lee, Essex County College
Karen Dalton, Community College of Baltimore County
Jeffrey Lee, Essex County College
Mary N. Boyle, Vermont Technical College
Jeffrey Lee, Essex County College
WEBSITE REVIEWS
Deborah V. Harbour, College of Southern Nevada
From the Editor
Pull up a chair, open your laptop, and click on to the Fifth Annual Educational Materials Issue of Focus on Microbiology Education. The offerings this summer include 28 reviews of 27 books, six reviews of four videos (DVDs), as well as reviews of a CD-ROM and two websites.
Works range from those that highlight twenty-first century technology, genomics (Accessing Uncultivated Microorganisms—Zengler), and quorum sensing—two reviews of Chemical Communication among Bacteria (Winans and Bassler), two reviews of the DVDs from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration and The Double Life of RNA, to a historical video (Semmelweis: Hope Was in His Hands—Museum of the Moving Image) and book (Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World—Sherman).
If you teach evolution, look at the reviews of Science, Evolution, and Creationism (National Academy of Sciences), as well as the DVD from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads. Consider revisiting the spring 2007 issue—on evolution—of Focus on Microbiology Education: http://www.microbelibrary.org/edzine/Newsletter/2007/Spring07Screen.pdf. Ross Nehm’s article has an excellent bibliography.
Two books relating to food microbiology are reviewed: Food Microbiology: an Introduction (Montville and Matthews), and for kids, Eating Safe With Ace and Mace! (Jackson). While we’re talking about children, consider Germ Proof Your Kids (Rotbart).
If fungi are your favorites, be sure to read the review of the MycoAlbum CD-ROM, and enjoy the many annotated images on the CD-ROM.
New this year is a direct comparison of two laboratory manuals: Laboratory Exercises in Microbiology, 7th edition (Harley), and Microbiology, a Laboratory Manual, 8th edition (Cappuccino and Sherman). In addition, Science in the Real World: Microbes in Action Curriculum Manual (May and Thiel) provides additional laboratory exercises for your consideration.
Think about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) if you haven’t already, and enjoy the review of Enhancing Learning through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: the Challenges and Joys of Juggling (McKinney).
Textbooks are the mainstay of the summer reviews issue, and there are plenty, including new books by Kim and Gadd, Slonczewski and Foster, and Wheelis. Many new editions of old favorites are reviewed, along with supplemental materials, even medical mysteries. Look for your favorites.
Once again thanks are due to Ruth Gyure for her very capable shepherding of this issue. Enjoy!
Lucy W. Kluckhohn Jones
Editor—Focus on Microbiology Education
Newsmagazine Editorial Committee
Lucy W. Kluckhohn Jones, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Monica College
Brad Goodner, Hiram College
Ruth Gyure, Western Connecticut State University
Jennifer Herzog, Herkimer County Community College
Gary Kaiser, The Community College of Baltimore County
Marie Panec, Moorpark College
Michelle Parent, University of Delaware
Jean Kayira, Production Editor, ASM Staff
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