Metabolism at a Glance is a complete review course of metabolism in health and disease and offers a unique approach to the study of this difficult discipline.

Metabolism is a complicated subject involving complex molecules and interrelated pathways. These metabolic pathways are usually taught separately with the result that the student develops a detailed but compartmentalised approach to metabolism and frequently fails to see the overall picture and its physiological significance.

Using the at a Glance format, the book takes the student through a complete course in intermediary metabolism in an integrated manner. The same chart is repeated throughout the book with the individual pathway under study highlighted.

The book is an ideal text for introductory biochemistry courses and has established itself as an enormously popular book amongst lecturers and students alike. This third edition is fully updated and includes five new chapters to mirror those topics currently taught at undergraduate level:

1. Metabolic Channelling

2. Glucose homeostasis and Reye's Disease

3. Pentose phosphate pathway and the prodcution of NADPH

4. Tryptophan metabolism in health and disease

5. Tyrosine metabolism in health and disease

I wish I'd known about this book during paramedic class. At first glance, it looks just as complicated as all other treatises on metabolism, once you start walking through the chapters everything unfolds brilliantly.

Though this book is *not* a substitute for the normal course of learning metabolism, it is an excellent adjunct. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to gain insight into how the process of metabolism works.

This is a great book that I highly suggest if you are a student of metabolism, or just have a general interest in metabolic pathways. It uses visual representations of certain structures, and helps to remember them. Also very nice how it highlights certain metabolic pathways while not excluding other closely-related pathways, which I think too many texts do when teaching this material. I bought it a great price, and am very happy that I did. Highly recommended.

This book is saving me as I take my medical biochemistry class now. This book maps many of the pathways on one page (the book has large pages) so you can see how different pathways are interconnected and where in the cell various processes occur. I learn things visually and like to see the big picture. So, learning different pathways and parts of pathways spread on several lecture notes don't help me much as this book does. This book is a major reason why I have a solid A in the class so far. I highly recommend it for metabolic or medical biochemistry classes.

Though I would not use this as my primary source of knowledge, it presents the material in a VERY supporting way and was great at clarifying/clearing up issues I had with other sources concerning metabolism. Bottom line: a worthwhile purchase for the price!

Metabolism at a Glance helped me in an advanced metabolism class: it shows all the inter-relationships between the different metabolic pathways, and overall is very complete. I purchased it on recommendation by one of my professors. I imagine that this book will be helpful to anyone in fields such as nutrition, exercise physiology, biochemistry, and at the very least is a good companion to any graduate level biochemistry/physiology textbook or class. The text can be small despite the oversized nature of the book, but then again, there's not much that can be done to resolve that given the number of enzymes, substrates, etc. involved in these pathways. I highly recommend this book.