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View our FAQsThe print books listed below may help with learning concepts covered in BIOL 2420 or with completing your class research project. If a book you want is not at your campus, you can have it transferred through the request option in the library catalog.
Drawing on extensive new interviews with dozens of world-renowned scientists, An Elegant Defense is equally an investigation into the deepest riddles of survival and a profoundly human tale that is movingly brought to life through the eyes of the four main characters, each of whom illuminates an essential facet of our "elegant defense."
Jason Tetro, author of The Germ Code, is back with a very different book but the same message: microbes are amazing, they deserve our respect and we should learn to live with them in harmony. The Germ Files is a series of brief, brilliant essays, arranged into themes such as health, child care, sex and the environment.
In fifteen easy-to-read chapters, featuring the humorous style and engaging analogies developed by Dr. Sompayrac, How the Immune System Works explains how the immune system players work together to protect us from disease - and, most importantly, why they do it this way.
Meet Your Bacteria covers bacteria from all angles, including: the different bacteria that live on and in various parts of your body (not just in the gut), what these bacteria do, and why some are beneficial and some are harmful.
In The New Microbiology, Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology. This story has wide-ranging implications for human health and medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and our understanding of evolution.
Microbiology For Dummies is your guide to understanding the fundamentals of this vast and complex field.
Concise and easy to read, Murray's Basic Medical Microbiology: Foundations and Clinical Cases, 2nd Edition, provides a solid foundation in the principles of microbiology, preparing you not only for examinations but also for the transition to clinical application.
Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, 15th Edition is known as the #1 bench reference for practicing microbiologists and as the preeminent text for students in clinical laboratory science programs. With hundreds of full-color illustrations and step-by-step methods for procedures, this text provides a solid, basic understanding of diagnostic microbiology.
Talaro’s Foundations in Microbiology: Basic Principles is an allied health microbiology text with a taxonomic approach to the disease chapters. It offers an engaging and accessible writing style through the use of case studies and analogies to thoroughly explain difficult microbiology concepts.
In Planet of Microbes, Ted Anton takes readers through the most recent discoveries about microbes, revealing their unexpected potential to reshape the future of the planet.
1. Begin on the Library homepage at https://library.tccd.edu/. Look for the TCC Library Catalog Box on the left side of the page.
2. Select the "In the Library" box and then select your home campus or leave the selection as Any Campus
3. Type what you want to find in the search box, such as "genetics 101" and click the Search button.
4. Check the location of your chosen book (Southeast) and use the call number (Ex: QH437 .S59 2018) to find it on the shelf.
The TCC Libraries share their collections, and you can have any eligible book sent to your home campus for free.