Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology 6th Edition

This book is the standard text for many Botany courses at university. It is seven hundred pages of meticulous detail that covers everything you could possibly need in an introduction to the subject. The illustrations are particularly helpful. Every chapter follows the same format which is both good for student familiarity but perhaps not ideal for every topic. There are many boxed topics that deal with subsidiary topics. These occasionally break up the flow of the text and some of the illustrations are oddly placed.The text is for an American audience and for non-Americans some of the topics seem a bit odd, e.g. they felt the need to include a gentle debunking of Creationism, repeated assertions about evolution, and a guide to the metric system.However, these are minor criticisms. The text is comprehensive, clearly stated and lavishly illustrated. It also comes with a password to further online resources. Overall it would be hard to name a better introductory text.

Amazing book. I thought I was buying a standard (aka, dull but thorough) text on a subject new to me; to my great surprise the book is wonderfully and entertainingly written, and brings botany to life. the author shows what real scientific thinking is: inquisitive, integrative, and fun. Expansive rather than narrow. Aided by math, physics and chemistry but not drowned by them.

Great Biology book and it great condition!

Excellent botany textbook with all the latest research and facts on current thinking on plant biology. It also has plenty of beautiful color photos of cell structure, plants, algae and everything related to the physiology of plants.

I got this book as an assigned text for an undergraduate course in general botany (which is a field new to me). After the first month, I am somewhat overwhelmed by the extensive detail and the large number of new terms. It is my job the build a framework to fit them all into but Dr. Mauseth's initial approach of cell structure to cell reproduction to tissue, to stems, leaves, roots, woody plants, and then flowers involves a lot of jumping forward and flashbacks. I appreciate his analogies to animal cells, structures, and functions. I applaud his repeated emphasis on the interplay between organisms and environment. I foresee keeping this book as a reference until the many plant terms and micro-structures become part of my longterm knowledge. Quibbles: the many illustrations and figures are often on a page following the text that refers to them, and botanists' use of "minerals" to mean inorganic, ionic solutes.

Brand new, great price, even the scratch off code for online materials was intact.

Excellent text. Use it in my class. Bought it for my Teaching Assistants.

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