Seldin and Giebisch’s The Kidney: Physiology and Pathophysiology, 4th ed.

edited by Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine and Ensign Professor of Medicine (nephrology), and the late Steven C. Hebert, M.D., former C.N.H. Long Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and professor of medicine (nephrology) (Academic Press) This edition has more than 40 new chapters and 1,000 illustrations, providing comprehensive coverage of renal physiology and pathophysiology. The topics move from the molecular biology of the kidney and its cell physiology to clinical issues surrounding renal function and dysfunction.