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Try The Machinery of Life, by David S. Goodsell. 2nd ed 2010. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/product-description/0387849246?t=heritonlin-21 It has great colour illustrations. Frank At 18:19 18/12/2011, Zara wrote: >Hi all, > >Does anyone have suggestions for a book that I could recommend to an A-level student interested in pursuing a career in Biochemistry? I really enjoy reading but sadly my reading interests seem not to have streched to non-fiction science books! > >So far I have: > > The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Lewis Thomas > >How We Live and Why We Die: the secret lives of cells - Lewis Wolpert > > The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot > > >Would love to hear of any more additions to this list - having been thinking of putting it up the list on my website so it is accessible to all. > >Thanks, >Zara > > > >-- ><http://zara-mahmoud.com>zara-mahmoud.com ><http://sciencebuz.com>sciencebuz.com > >********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. > >Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html > >Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to <mailto:mailto:[log in to unmask]>mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: > >set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] > >2. To resume email from the list, send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] with the message: > >set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] > >3. To leave psci-com, send an email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] with the message: > >leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] > >Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] > >********************************************************************** Frank Norman Librarian, MRC National Institute for Medical Research The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK tel 020 8816 2227 fax 020 8816 2230 email [log in to unmask] twitter @franknorman ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************