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New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity. Some fields like basic biochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, and chemical thermody#65533; namics are well represented by many excellent texts, and new or revised editions are published sufficiently often to keep up with progress in research. However, some areas of chemistry, especially many of those taught at the graduate level, suffer from a real lack of up-to-date textbooks. The most serious needs occur in fields that are rapidly changing. Textbooks in these subjects usually have to be written by scientists actually involved in the research which is advancing the field. It is not often easy to persuade such individuals to set time aside to help spread the knowledge they have accumulated. Our goal, in this series, is to pinpoint areas of chemistry where recent progress has outpaced what is covered in any available textbooks, and then seek out and persuade experts in these fields to produce relatively concise but instructive introductions to their fields. These should serve the needs of one semester or one quarter graduate courses in chemistry and biochemistry. In some cases, the availability of texts in active research areas should help stimulate the creation of new courses.
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A timely work; introductory biology books are devoting chapters to biomembranes whereas membranes were previously considered mainly as a subdivision of the structure-function discussion in cell biology. The extensive 90-page reference list as an appendix rather than at chapter ends is extremely useful: the majority of entries are from l980 on. The expected topics are covered: structure and composition of membranes, membrane lipids, membrane proteins, protein-lipid interactions, asymmetry across membranes, enzymology, transport phenomena, and biogenesis. Nine of the ten chapters contain boxed essays, generally less than a page length, on specialized and important topics (e.g., "Genetics and Site-Directed Mutagenesis Are Powerful Techniques in Studying Lactose Permease"). The usefulness of this as a textbook for graduate courses is obvious: in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a wide range of membrane topics and a current reference list for the primary research literature. Undergraduate programs will use it as a reference book. Undergraduate students in cell biology, biochemistry/molecular biology, or genetics courses will find many topics covered in relation to their area of study, such as hydropathy plots, melittin, rhodopsin, photosynthetic reaction centers, porins, signal sequences, G proteins, and membrane fusion/recycling. Highly recommended for both graduate and undergraduate libraries. -T. A. Cole, Wabash College
