This book is designed to be used as textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses of microbial physiology and biochemistry, with a specific focus on the physiological processes in bacteria and archaea. This emphasis provides for the basis to explore bacterial and archaeal growth, as well as the response of these cells to the environment and to evaluate the enzymology used to support life at the cellular level. Building on the success of the first edition, the topics have been strengthened by the addition of new information and a reorganization which has resulted in condensed chapters to enable instructors to more readily adapt the various units of this book to their class schedules. A set of questions is provided for each chapter and these questions can serve as in-class discussions or homework projects. Through an extensive use of references, the reader is able to readily identify the source for material presented and this approach enables the book to also serve as a reference for research scientists. Through the use of updated figures and tables, details in the text are provided for the reader. It is the hope that this book will summarize the current understanding of structure-function relationships in prokaryotes and to serve as a bridge to future developments in this area of microbiology.

Here is a second book of engaging, creative, and theologically astute poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days based on the texts for Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms. With the conviction that Scripture always proclaims something new about God, each of these 107 poems reveal a surprise, often with humor, like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. There are five new hymn texts with suggested tunes, and another poem can be a light-hearted choir anthem. For preachers, study groups, and personal devotions, the index of 128 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “Kind of Disturbed by Some of These Scriptures,” “Does Jesus Still Thumb His Nose?” and “From the KJV to Shazam!” these poems will provoke, amuse, inform, and inspire anyone who suspects the Bible’s purpose is to proclaim grace for our lives.

In this concise book, an international panel of experts provide a succinct, up-to-date, evidence-based reference to the neurological consequences of infectious diseases and immunodeficiency syndromes in children in one readily accessible volume. Within each of its conveniently structured chapters, readers will find a general description of the disease or disorder. Finally a volume for pediatricians, neurologists, infectious disease specialists and all who care for children.