Basic Methods in MicroscopyProtocols and Concepts from Cells: A Laboratory Manual

This is a book covering the principles of all kinds of microscopes with structure figures. There many good color photos and graphs. The protocols of tissue preparations are very useful, but maybe duplicate in other books. If you just want to know how to use the microscopes instead of understanding them, it should be a good book for you. It is more like a lab manual collection.The problem of this book is that it distracts a little bit from microscopes to cell culture and immunohistochemistry.

This is good but it's really more geared towards non-optical scopes. I was expecting from what I managed to read of this book, more than a paragraph or two on optical microscopes. It refers to companion books which I will have to now buy to get what I needed. Oh well, another book read and information in my head I'll never use ... but interesting stuff!