Microscopes Books

THE WORLD OF THE MICROSCOPE had good information to help my daughter with her science project. The book arrived in less than 4 days.

I bought this and gave it as a gift with a microscope and prepared slides to a 9 year old boy. He loved the microscope and slides, and the book was a nice accompaniment that he could use for reference. The book wasn't used for very long though once he got to using the microscope.

The item arrived in condition as described and it got to me fast

While looking to educate my adopted Chinese son ... only in this country for two years, I noticed his interest in life sciences and chemestry. So, we bought him his first Microscope for this Christmas and were trying to figure out how we can teach him the many things/uses we had forgotten in 42 years since my school days. Well ..... this book is the perfect answer. Not only does it explain the microscope, but it gives great experiments and things to build from household items as tools to carry my son further than I could. The writting will be a little dense per page for his understanding, but any good parent that will use this to help their child will be able to take that child to high knowledge and functionality in the microscope realm.

Wonderful for my 10-yr-old niece's first experience with a microscope. Good pictures, colorful, understandable instructions, useful information. Probably good for any beginner, any age.

If you are like me and had to use a Scanning Electron Microscope or SEM, you want to start with the basics that everyone goes by. This book is a safe bet that most everyone knows about. Plus, it is written with very little background in the world of electron microscopy. Too many authors to list but it's wonderful that alot of experts got together to present this material in clear, concise manner. Before you grab your solid-state physics book or check Wikipedia, just relax and page through it since this book pretty much makes it easy for you.

Chapters are arranged by the following: What is SEM?, How SEM works?, and Why are we interested with SEM? That's the easiest way to explain rather than list all the chapters. If you have a specific question, you don't even have to read through the previous chapters (if you have rough understanding). The size of this book is a BIG PLUS. It's compact compared to the monsterous Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) book by Barry Carter which is another great reference. For this price, you would be lucky to find another good reference book under $100 with such relevant information.

This book is a comprehensible review of principles and methods of SEM and X-ray microanalysis write in a single and elegant language. The authors avoid using mathematical formulas in the description and demonstration which turn it an atractive book to all scientists and even the beginners.

This ought to be the dream book of those who do SEM imaging. The first half or say first five/six chapters are solely devoted to fundamentals of SEMs and the rest of the chapters are dealing generation of X-rays and concentrate on EDS. I have not yet finished reading this book. But certainly recommend to other SEM users to possess this book and read it as and when required.

The book is very good. I can learn a lot about the SEM from this book. The cd has also some interesting pictures, additional information.

This book is a great book for learning the Basics about Electron Microscopy and X-ray Analysis. You get a good overview!

I got this book for my husband who is studying virology. He loves it! The pictures are great, as are the descriptions! Its now his favorite non-scifi book.

Overall, if you are at all interested in microbiology and infectious things, you will love this book!

Very fast delivery, great condition. Reassuring since i tried to order this book from another seller and never recieved it. Thanks

Nice little reference book. I bought it first and foremost because it was nicely designed. It's brief but informative and has alot of nice images. The downfall of this book, as I noticed after reading it, is that the editor did an appalling job of ...well editing. This book has an insane amount of spelling and grammar errors (for a book in print I mean). I was a bit dissapointed by that, I guess they sacrificed clarity for image. Too bad, it could have been perfect. Anyway not to end on a sour note the graphics and the information make up for that one flaw.

The telescope's invention and advancement let the human world in on how tiny organisms looked, and helped to reveal pathogens and their dangers: now the images of these disease-producing microbes, from viruses to fungi, are accessible to non-scientists in MICROTERRORS, a gathering of microscope color images paired with a quick reference and health facts. Clinical notes on treatment and prevention round out a unique approach.

I have been looking for an informative book on microbes for a long time, and I've found exactly what I've been looking for with this book. The information in Microterrors is organized and easy to understand, especially for someone that's interested in finding out more about the germs they hear about everyday on the news. This book makes you want to learn more about these deadly terrors, and at the same time lock yourself away in a clean room. Definitely a must read for anyone interested in the genre.

this book contains a lot of information, but organized in such a way that is easy to find what you need.

The book was in perfect condition and was sent at time.
I will agree that my first experience with Amazon was an excellent one.

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I'm taking an organic spectroscopy course for my graduate program in Organic chemistry and my exams consist of MS, IR, proton NMR, and C13 NMR spectra.

This book is absolutely incredible. It gives you chemical shifts for nearly every conceivable structure for proton and C13 NMR and it also gives you absorptions for the IR frequencies of known functional groups. It has helped me many times in trying to determine the structure of an unknown compound.

Like the other reviewer said, this book is the bible of organic spectroscopy. I see it being used all the time in the organic research lab when graduate students are trying to figure out what they synthesized.

This is the best organic spectroscopy book I have ever found. If you have to take any kind of organic spec class, this is definitely a must.

If you are taking a class in organic spectroscopy or use NMR all the time in your lab, then this book is a must. Gives you table after table of chemical shifts for C-13 NMR, H1-NMR, IR, Mass Spec, and UV/Vis. It also comes with a very useful NMR Predictor CD.

There are a number of books on TEM, and many are good. However, this book provides a fresh angle for someone learning the subject for the first time because it focuses on what you need to know in order to carry out experiments. Obviously, there is a lot of theory about lenses and scattering. However, there are also dozens of "factoids" such as common lens settings, and most the frequent errors in field emission guns -- and how to handle those errors. My mixing the practical day to day technician's data with the more theoretical underpinning which is my wont, I found it got me up to speed and functional is a very short time. Now experieience with TEMs can carry me the rest of the way.

Great book and fast delivery.
Book is in very good condition and very good service.

Good for both beginners and advanced users. Easy to read and well organized. It looks like there are some mistakes in some equations but it is the best TEM book available.

This 4-volume set of paperback books provides a thorough and readable introduction to the science and practice of TEM (transmission electron microscopy). The text is divided into short, digestable sections, each accompanied by figures, graphs and plots. The equations are numerous, but well explained and presented with minimal derivations but full explanations. The books are divided into concise sections making it easy for the reader to find what he/she needs. Overall, a perfect textbook to learn about TEM, and as a reference for those more experienced in this field.

In the 70's and 80's the book by Hirsch et al. was the TEM reference tome, and Eddington's book the applications manual.

Time has marched on, and this book is the new replacement for both!

Carter and Williams wrote a very easy to read, yet well detailed, text and reference for TEM. They cover quite literally everything, in just the right level of detail for 1st or 2nd year grad students.

This book is the best way to get a quick grasp of TEM.

This well illustrated book covers the basics of microscopy for the younger reader in an atmosphere of fun and delight. The reader will learn more about their small world and have a good time with the many interesting projects. This book and it's cartoon-like illustrations and detailed photomicrographs are a wonderful example of a fine science book for young readers.

This larger format book contains a wonderful mix of colorful cartoon-like illustrations and full color photomicrographs of interesting projects for learning more about our small world. The book is entertaining, educational, and fun. Teenagers and adults will want to follow-up with the more detailed book "Exploring with the Microscope", by Werner Nachtigall.

This is an excellent book for kids learning about microscopes. It identifies the parts of a microscope and how to use one. It has a lot of well explained experiments (preparing all sorts of slides) for kids to do. There are photographs of what the slides should look like under magnification. The drawings and cartoons throughout the book make it fun and interesting.

My son wanted a microscope for his birthday. I had already bought some microscope books. This one was the best for beginners. On every page there are detailed but cute color pictures explaining all the technical stuff. ALSO, on each page that talks about viewing a particular object under the microscope, there's an ACTUAL PHOTO of the object under the microscop, so you don't have to guess if you're looking at the right thing. This is a really fun book. Before I looked at this book I was getting discouraged because the other two books seemed way too complicated and thus boring for my 8 year old son.

NOT ONLY are the pictures and experiments great, but this book talks about SAFETY, it tells you what overall SUPPLIES you will need, for each individual experiment what SUPPLIES you will need, it explains--in a FUN WAY--how the microscope and other lenses work. ALSO, in the authors own words, "THE MICROSCOPE BOOK is intended to teach children basic techniques and observation skills WITHOUT DESTROYING ANY LIFE FORMS."

I commend the authors Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone and the Illustrator David Sovka.

This is my favorite kids' microscpoe book. I wish that I had had it when I was a child, enraptured by my first microscope. The book uses clear directions, specific lists of materials needed, accessible drawings and actual photographs.

The first section, Lights, Lenses & Microscopes, explains the priciples of how a microscope works and why. It also covers how to measure and how to keep a journal of your findings. I wish that kids would read this section, but many may skip directly to the experiments in the next several sections. The book also has some safety tips, but parents should read those parts with the child so that they make sure that these are not skipped.

The biology section shows ways to view plants, fish scales and other items. I liked the section on how to build your own microtome using a wooden spool, a carrot and a screw. The geology section is shorter but has some good ideas about looking at crystals. There are also short sections on forensics and fibers. The section on food and the environment include fun activities using mould, yeast and mushrooms.

Each activitiy description is short enough to keep an older elementary-younger middle school kid entertained. The author puts in educational snippets that enlighten but do not overburden the young reader.

This book is a fun introduction to the microscope that will encourage kids to explore more.

I have found this book to be extremely comprehensive and detailed, great for anyone who wants to learn both the basic and advanced concepts of lasers. The book is definitely for the more advanced undergraduate students (and grad students, of course) who have a background in quantum mechanics, and higher-level calculus. The translation from Italian is perfect. Highly recommended.

P.S.: In reply to the review written by `A Reader' below, `newby' is spelt `newbie' (or `noob').

Very good. I recommend it for anyone who works with lasers. Very accurate and easy to read.

-KC, NRL

"...the student that is led into the laser field by this text is lucky. The text is excellent and filled with appropriate illustrations...Overall, this work will also be useful as a reference for the topics covered. The literature references are copious and appropriate. The text is well supplied with figures and graphs and for those areas considered in detail, the book is and will remain a very good reference volume."

Clearly written, without oversimplifying some of the
more subtle items (which are so often swept under the
carpet in simpler treatments of the field - such as
the QFT treatment of spontaneous emission). First a
clear and detailled discussion of all the aspects
of the working principles of a laser is presented,
and then specific lasertypes are described, all this
in a very readable style. Great book.

This book is extremely clear and even a completely newby can read it. At the same time, nothing is left halfway and the subject is covered with extreme care and depth. Congratualations to the author !

This book is excellent for beginners and advanced microscopists. It offers fine details and tricks about techniques as well as the theory behind it. There are lots of pictures and schematics for each descriptions. It is also useful for microscopist that want to learn more about different methods. I definitively recommend it!

This book is a very good technical introduction to the electron microscopy of biological samples. Good figures and schemes help to understand the text. Photos of different types of samples are also adequate to illustrate the methods. The book is an excellent manual for beginners and biologists find it useful and easy to read.

This is a great book for those entering the field of EM study. It takes you step by step through both SEM and TEM sample prep and analysis. It is packed with helpful pictures and diagrams. It will be a book you will refer to for methodology and protocal from fixation to sectioning...I really love this book.

I actually had the opportunity to receive instruction from Prof. Bozzola in both Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and acquired the book for those reasons. It is not common to find even a textbook with such well-detailed instructions from beginning level to advanced for a myriad of topics in the field. Of course, there is a very significant focus on biological applications, so some portions of the book are not entirely relevant to materials science folks like myself. This book covers the basics of optics, sample preparation, imaging, photography and film developing, and specifics about both TEMs and SEMs. This book is a very good investment for anyone intending to perform work with such instruments.

I had to buy this book for a Graduate level course that I took. We covered all of the material in the book in about 4 weeks. I didn't know anything about the class beforehand, but the book did help a lot. It was a little dull, but the content was good albeit a little outdated.

Dr. Murphy constructs a solid foundation on the basic concepts of geometrical optics, light, and color, and then provides excellent introductory reviews of important topics in light microscopy. The book is very well written and complex phenomena are clearly explained without the unnecessary math that often confuses students. Illustrations are numerous and help support the text very nicely, as do the suggested laboratory exercises that accompany each chapter. Discussions of digital cameras and image processing are timely and provide the essential concepts necessary to tackle more advanced treatises. In the opinion of the Molecular Expressions microscopy website team, this book is by far the best entry-level textbook in the field.

This is the book that tells you how to actually do effective microscopy. Keep a copy by the microscope.

"This well written text provides a clear, uncluttered overview of the principles and practice of modern light microscopy. It contains many helpful teaching exercises and diagrams. It should prove useful in a wide range of courses from the undergraduate to the postgraduate level."
-- Kenneth R. Spring, Ph.D., Author

This is an autobiography of a truly amazing woman. It is one that I wish everyone could read--especially those who think that they have overcome a hard life.

Mei Liu was born in the Hunan Province of China in 1929--also, coincidentally, the year of my own birth. She and her family lived through those tumultous years in China before the country was unified under Sun Yat Sen and warlords ruled, as well as before the Japanese invasion and afterward the war between The Kuomintang (Nationalists) and Mao Tse-Tung's Eighth Route Marchers (Communists).

No one who was not in China in those days can possibly appreciate the conditions that the brave, resilient Chinese people lived through. I was there--as it happens, at the same time and in the same town as was Mei (Tsingtao, on the Shantung Peninsula to which she refers to by the new name Qingdao; the English spelling preferred by the current Communist government). I was stationed with the U.S. Marine Corps there for all of 1948--the last year The Nationalists held the mainland--thanks largely to the support our State Department gave Mao. I left shortly before Dr. Liu,in 1949.

Mei Liu escaped the communist takeover and went to Taiwan, as did many of my Chinese acquaintances, where she studied medicine. Eventually, she came to the United States where she pursued a distinguished career in neuropathology, divorced and singlehandedly raised her family.

In her later life, she returned to both Taiwan and Hunan where she taught and was re-united with many of her relatives.

Now, she is retired and lives in Honolulu.

This is a heartwarming, deeply affecting story of a brave woman who has survived much and has contributed enormously to science, the communities she has lived in and to her family. And, of course, to me. Simply reading her story has altered my own viewpoint on many things.

Please, do yourself a favor and read this one!

Joseph (Joe) Pierre, USN (RET)

author of The Road to Damascus: Our Journey Through Eternity;
Handguns and Freedom...Their Care And Maintenance;
and other books

Though H. Mei Liu's book GRANDFATHER'S MICROSCOPE is written as an homage and a memoir, it is really so much more. Dr. Mei Liu has the novelist's gift in approaching her story and while all the elements are true, she blends them so well that that this relatively short book (just over 250 pages with photographs) is a page turner, a novel that contains a mélange of social history, medical history, political intrigue, and even a dip into the occult!

Dr. Mei Liu was born into wealth in the old China of 1929 when much of the grandeur of tradition and deep respect for cultural ties was still intact. But the characters who molded her childhood included a 'possessed' mother, a father whose behavior mirrored the caricatures of Chinese opera, an elegant aristocratic grandmother who just happened to be addicted to opium, and most important, a murdered grandfather who owned the microscope of the book's title and whose life was buried in secrecy. Swiftly but surely we are accompanied down the path of the changes that WW II wrought in China with first the Japanese occupation and then the Communist rule.

At the age of 20 our narrator was blacklisted by the Communist regime and was forced to flee China mainland, eventually departing the safe refuge of Taiwan for the unknown entity of life in the United States. Then after a successful career as a physician in the US she returned to China to quench her thirst for information about the secretive aspects of her family and childhood. Her reward? The discoveries about her grandfather that bring a resolution to her years of queries as to her own talents and feelings.

This is a warmly written book, full of excitement and insights and one that deserves a wide readership. Recommended. Grady Harp, March 06

Born in 1929 in Hunan Province, Mei Liu's childhood was filled with family secrets & plagued by Japanese occupation & Communist revolution...until she escaped to college on Taiwan & eventually to America.

This is not a memoir of great battles & political upheavel, rather it is of the intimate family details of how they all lived together, their illnesses & triumphs, the melange of religions within one household (Buddhism, Christianity, Islam & polytheism), the mixture of old ways & modern interests, of affection & civility, of herbal treatments, incantations & secret histories obliquely mentioned, & of children growing up in a dangerous world.

GRANDFATHER'S MICROSCOPE is a remarkable effort at the telling of a complex social, private & scientific history over the course of 70+ years of the cultures on both sides of a vast ocean. Now, in her wisdom years, Mei Liu leaves her children the legacy of her story well-written, entertaining & thought-provoking.

Very well done & a treasure.

Dr. Liu is the author of BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF NERVE GROWTH, a seminal work on neuroscience, read worldwide.

Born in 1929 in Hunan Province, Mei Liu's childhood was filled with family secrets & plagued by Japanese occupation & Communist revolution...until she escaped to college on Taiwan & eventually to America.

This is not a memoir of great battles & political upheavel, rather it is of the intimate family details of how they all lived together, their illnesses & triumphs, the melange of religions within one household (Buddhism, Christianity, Islam & polytheism), the mixture of old ways & modern interests, of affection & civility, of herbal treatments, incantations & secret histories obliquely mentioned, & of children growing up in a dangerous world.

GRANDFATHER'S MICROSCOPE is a remarkable effort at the telling of a complex social, private & scientific history over the course of 70+ years of the cultures on both sides of a vast ocean. Now, in her wisdom years, Mei Liu leaves her children the legacy of her story well-written, entertaining & thought-provoking.

Very well done & a treasure.

Dr. Liu is the author of BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF NERVE GROWTH, a seminal work on neuroscience, read worldwide.