Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77866 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 944 pages

Customer Reviews

Bio of Plants
This book is great. It has detailed descriptions, good questions, and great photographs to reinforce the topics. I use this book for a college course and it is extremely helpful in filling in the details or gaps of what the professor glosses over. I highly recommend using this book.

The book was in mint condition
I made sure it was the exact book the bio teacher required for her class. No scratches, defects, etc. Make sure you order the book with enough time in advance so you're not stuck without it the first week or two of class.

The Bible of Plant Biology
You know, Raven's Biology of Plants is the Bible of plant biologists, but I'm just not a great fan of it. Campbell's Biology (anything over the 5th edition) does a better job of explaining photosynthesis and if a book ON plant biology is trumped on perhaps THE most important aspect of plant biology by a book of general biology, I find that quite sad. Descriptions and examples were not always the best choices. There is nothing in here that excited me about plant biology and I'm a plant biologist. The text is flat.

Good coverage on all the major plant lineages. A bit weak in the evolution department. Not that it is absent, just thin. Putting the ecology chapters online and still trying to sell this as part of the text is ...ahem...borderline dishonest. If I wanted an eBook, I'd buy an eBook. When I want a text in my hand, I expect it to be all there. What am I to do should I need to reference those chapters in the field? Not that I would ever take this text into the field. It's just not all that.