Biochemistry Explained: A Practical Guide to Learning Biochemistry. Thomas Millar. Newark, NJ: Gordon and Breach Publishing (Harwood Academic Publishers), 2000, 211 pp., $58.00. ISBN 90-5702-474-8.

This book is intended for students of biochemistry and designed to be used in conjunction with a traditional biochemistry textbook rather than to serve as a stand-alone text. The motivation for preparing this book came from the author’s experience. As a student, he found that traditional textbooks, although comprehensive in their content, too often failed to identify core concepts and relationships. Without this framework, the undergraduate student dutifully learns facts, but does not integrate them into a relational framework. This book is designed to help set up that framework and, according to the author, to help make the learning of this subject fun. The 15 chapters are …