REFERENCES

A running list of valuable references (books, articles, links).  Let's use the [author-year] convention for citing in our discussions.

[Alberts-2002] B Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition (note there is a later edition) "Fat Alberts" or "Big Alberts"
[Alberts-2004] B Alberts et al., Essential Cell Biology, 2nd edition (simplified but still excellent version of Fat Alberts) "Baby Alberts"
[Alon-2007] Uri Alon, An Introduction to Systems Biology
[Berg-2002] JM Berg, et al., Biochemistry, 5th edition
[Harold-2001] FM Harold, The way of the cell
[Harris-1995] DA Harris, Bioenergetics at a glance
[Hill-1989] TL Hill, "Free energy transduction and biochemical cycle kinetics," Chapter 1.  This is a classic book, and chapter 1 is essential reading, nicely presented.  The rest of the book is more opaque.  Available cheaply in Dover edition.
[Nicholls-1992] DG Nichools and SJ Ferguson, Bioenergetics3