Alexander N. Glazer and Hiroshi Nikaido. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 554 p., $75.

Some applied microbiology books we've come across typically contain information about prokaryotes with limited information about other organisms used for biotechnological purposes. However, we were very pleased when we opened the second edition of Alexander Glazer and Hiroshi Nikaido's Microbrobial Biotechnology: Fundamentals of Applied Microbiology, to discover that they not only provided information about prokaryote's roles in biotechnological research but also provided sufficient information about the use of fungi species. Glazer and Nikaido's book perfectly executes the difficult task of relating the vast information gathered about the practical application of bacteria, archaea, and fungi in a fluid and wellorganized manner.