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2002–2022
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📕 Cell Biology — Alberts Molecular Biology of the Cell 7e (2022)

Status: ✓ Complete · 56 MB · authentic

Authors: Bruce Alberts, Rebecca Heald, Alexander Johnson, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter · W.W. Norton · 1648 pp · ISBN 9780393884821

C:\Users\johnn\Downloads\unomaha-textbooks\Alberts_MBoC_7e_2022.pdf
Verified content: "GENOME DIVERSIFICATION AND THE TREE OF LIFE" • "The Tree of Life Has Three Major Domains" • PDB codes for protein structures • COVID-19 + mRNA vaccines coverage (Ch 23-24) • biomolecular condensates (Ch 3, 6, 7, 12, 14) • cell junctions (Ch 19) — JOHNSON FOCUS.

This is THE upper-division cell biology textbook for BIOL 4140. Latest 7e (2022) with COVID-19 + cryo-EM updates.

🧠 Neuroscience — Bear Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain 4e (2015)

Status: ✓ Complete · 42 MB · authentic

Authors: Mark F. Bear · Barry W. Connors · Michael A. Paradiso · Wolters Kluwer · 1008 pp · ISBN 9781451109542

C:\Users\johnn\Downloads\unomaha-textbooks\Bear_Neuroscience_4e_2015.pdf
Verified content: "CHAPTER EIGHT The Chemical Senses" • "CHAPTER NINE The Eye" • "BOX OF SPECIAL INTEREST: Strange Tastes" • cAMP-Gated Channels • Olfactory Population Coding • PART TWO Sensory and Motor Systems. Full 25-chapter intro neuro textbook.

Standard intro neuroscience textbook for NEUR 1520. Pair with MIT OCW 9.01 — taught by Mark Bear (this textbook's author). 5e (2025) exists but is harder to find as a complete PDF.

🦠 Microbiology — Moat/Foster/Spector Microbial Physiology 4e (2002)

Status: ✓ Complete · 19 MB · authentic · matches BIOL 4640 catalog name exactly

Authors: Albert G. Moat · John W. Foster · Michael P. Spector · Wiley-Liss · 715 pp · ISBN 9780471394839

C:\Users\johnn\Downloads\unomaha-textbooks\Moat_Microbial_Physiology_4e_2002.pdf
Verified content (Ch 2 TOC): Macromolecular Synthesis (DNA/RNA/Protein) • DNA Replication (bidirectional, semiconservative) • RNA Synthesis + Processing • Protein Folding + Chaperones • Antibiotics affecting Nucleic Acid + Protein Synthesis (ROWEN FOCUS) • Bacterial Genetics (DNA exchange, recombination, mutagenesis, repair) • Microbial Stress Responses + Extremophiles.

This is the exact textbook BIOL 4640 "Microbial Physiology" is named after. Topic order matches Rowen's syllabus better than Brock — bacterial physiology + pathogenesis + antibiotic resistance focus. Brock 16e (the alternative) is 219 MB which libgen.li can't reliably deliver in one session.

🌿 Ecology — Smith Elements of Ecology 9e Global (2015)

Status: ✓ Complete · 3 MB compressed · authentic · text-only

Authors: Thomas M. & Robert Leo Smith · Pearson · 9th Edition Global · ISBN 978-1-292-07740-6

C:\Users\johnn\Downloads\unomaha-textbooks\Smith_Elements_of_Ecology_9e_2015.pdf
Verified: "ELEMENTS OF Ecology" • Thomas M. Smith (UVA) + Robert Leo Smith (WVU Emeritus) • Ninth Edition Global • 395 pages of text extracted • Pearson 2015. Compressed PDF — text content + structure preserved, fewer figures than the full 67MB version.

Most-cited intro ecology textbook in the US. Topic order matches Bragg's lecture sequence almost exactly. Bragg uses no required textbook (open-note exams) so this is supplementary. For images-rich version, see books.html for Anna's Archive link to the full 67MB original.

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