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Plant Biology (Non-InfoTrac Version) (Wadsworth Biology Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas L. Rost, Michael G. Barbour, C. Ralph Stocking, Terence M. Murphy
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Category: Book
List Price: $114.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 657717
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 568
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0534249302
Dewey Decimal Number: 580
EAN: 9780534249304
ASIN: 0534249302
Publication Date: January 23, 1998
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Product Description
This complete introduction to the science of plant biology gives you and your students the best of both worlds: a text that thoroughly covers all the content of a typical first course in botany with just the right amount of detail to keep the text at a desirable and manageable length. The text focuses on clarity, efficiency of presentation, and pedagogy to facilitate student understanding.
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 Very helpful December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was extremely useful in my plant science class. The prof. taught from it and the images inside are great. Everything is well laid out and I like the chapter summaries and information. This book was expensive, but for me it was worth it!
ignore that bitter student April 28, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I too used this book for my introductory botany class and actually worked for Tom Rost several years later (as my both interest and understanding of the subject grew, neither were affected in anyway but a posistive one from the use of this text). I used an older version which included a rudimentary section on fungi (I'm not sure if this edition does) as the book was written to mirror the original content of course taught a UCD but other than that it has just what you'd want to know to get you feet wet in botany. I have this book in paper back - the binding is cracking and I have officallly had pages fall out but I still pull this book out occasionally for use.
This book is a great visual help to botany October 25, 2004
I bought this book as a additional resource to a basic plant science course that I was taking. It has great pictures, and explanations on the basic proceses in plants. This is not a book that a begining self taught person could learn from easily. This is a textbook, not a home gardener's type book. The only drawback is the binding. All the books that I have seen have been falling apart. I would recommend the spiral bound edition or just live with the binding
 This book is junk April 4, 2002
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm a UC Davis student who took the plant biology course that uses this book. The professor doesn't even follow the book because it's so bad. It's unorganized, confusing, and useless for my class. Even some of the illustrations in the book are wrong. Don't buy this book if you just plan to learn plant biology. If you have to buy this book because course requirement, good luck
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