CHEMISTRY – THE CENTRAL SCIENCE 11TH EDITION

From the book title Chemistry as the Central of Science, we know that chemistry is vital in our daily life. This book covers the chemistry of life, particularly the Organic and Biological Chemistry. If you are a student from SAS, this book will be useful to you.  That’s because Chemistry is a must in SAS and a lot of modules will be related to it. As long as your career prospect is in science we need to excel in chemistry.

I recommend this book because it is a new edition available in RP library. So a lot of facts are being updated in this editon, and they also include some interesting and up to date facts about science and technology, thus it will help us in understanding the applications of chemistry in our daily life. From the very basic of how the little particles make up our life, to how compounds with different shapes will somehow affect their properties.  I read a very interesting part about the buffer solution with both alkaline and acid that prevent changes in the pH of the solution.

Immunology by Ivan Roitt, Jonathan Brostoff, David Male

This book is mainly about Immunology and includes topics like immune responses, antibodies and inflammation and etc. In my opinion, this book is really informative as it includes most of the topics that are essential for Immunology module which I studied in year 2 semester 2. For instance, chapters like immune responses that includes inflammation, interaction of MHC molecules with antigenic peptides and etc which all this book provides useful information in understanding these topics. In addition, the information in this book is well organized and is easy to understand.  Moreover, it provides a guides in the understanding of the topics related to Immunology which also helps in UTs. All in all, this book is really suitable for those who are going to take or are already taking the module for Immunology in courses like Biomedical Sciences, Biotechnology, etc. You will be sure no regret in reading this book which can help a lot in understanding the module for Immunology.

Publisher             : Mosby

Call Number       : QR 181 ROI 20091

Location               : West

Reviewed by      : Wong Wai Chun

 

Beginning Ruby on Rails by Steven Holzner

Are you a fan of web development? Do you like developing dynamic websites? Have you been coping well with C203 Web Development module and are prepared to learn something more?  If you have answered “yes” to all the above questions, this book is just for you. “Ruby on Rails” is considered one of the most powerful tools in the area of web development, therefore, even though it is not taught in RP, it is worth learning. “Ruby on Rails” is the combination of a programming language, Ruby, and a framework, Rail. As Rail framework makes use of Model-Viewer-Controller approach, the files are therefore well structured and requires less codes. Moreover, the codes written are neat compared to PHP which is taught in RP.

With this book, students will get to learn Ruby programming language. Learning Ruby is useful not only for “Ruby on Rails” but also  for other areas of IT. The book will give specific instructions on how to install “Ruby on Rails”. After mastering all the basic concepts of Ruby, students will be able to have hands on practice with the simple Rails application. In the end, students will learn the concepts of each component Model, Viewer and Controller.