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Photographic Atlas For The Botany Lab

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This book has been a great help to me for Botany, especially Botany labs. It has pictures on the micro- and macroscopic levels of plants with captions that label and describe function. A great book to have because it increases course comprehension.

Trying to learn a little botany, I bought this book (actually a looseleaf collection of 198 9" x 11" slick pages) and Graham's Plant Biology. This book is color photographs and micrographs and also color illustrations of many botanical concepts with some explanatory or descriptive text. It almost stands alone; when I opened it I sat down and spent an hour just browsing it. Now I pick it up to browse at irregular intervals and also when I hit a new topic in Graham. An excellent purchase.

This atlas has been VERY helpful as an additional study tool in my botany/fungi/algae class! Highly Recommended.

This book was a tremendous help in identifying plants for my Botany class. The pictures are clear and accurate. I would recommend buying for any plant course!

The three book deal (textbook, lab book, and photography reference book) all new- all less than $200.
Great buy. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

We found this collection of images to be a good resource and study guide. And although it is not a bound-book in the traditional sense (it is a nice collection of finely detailed photos and drawings you can keep in a three-hole binder) I especially like it b'cuz it is easy to remove just single page to examine more closely - you dont have to carry an extra book around. This is more a supplemental study guide than a stand alone text. The images are beautiful and I'm Glad to have it!

Great guide book to have with you during a botany lab. The color photos and the brief descriptions get you on your way to understanding what you're dealing with while working on dissection or looking at slides.

The book has great pictures and hold a lot of information. Shipping was fast.

This is an item I would recommend for anyone taking a botany class with a lab section and to anyone very interested in botany. The photographs in this book are spectacular, sharp, and glossy, and important features of the organism being viewed are pointed out. The reason this is so necessary for the botany lab is that it provides a record of plants and their features one simply cant get in a lecture text book. Since many professors expect students to know the plants and their features due to having shown and discussed them in lab, this presents a problem to the dedicated student. It means that review of concepts or studying for tests is limited to whatever amateur drawing the student managed to make of the structures they observed under the microscope, and whatever notes they put alongside it. However this book gives full photos of what one is likely to see in the lab as well as pointing out the structures a teacher is likely to hit on. So This book coupled with written notes from lab about what the instructor expects their students to know provides the student with an essential studying tool.

Ok. That was my official review, on a more personal note: I got this for my botany class and I'm so happy I did, it can be hard to remember which unusual looking cell is a heterocyst and which is an aknite from a few hours of looking at cyanobacterium, some of which don't have either, and without this book I would have totally gotten them switched around. (Yes my professor said he expects us to know the difference between those things for an exam.) After only a few weeks of class I am already using this book to study from and to supplement my lab notes and lab book. One additional thing, I was surprised when I got this in the mail and it was an inch thick loose-leaf book. However after looking inside it and actually using it, I am now thrilled that I don't have to carry a large heavy bound text book around, and the quality of the pages and photos is far superior to many good text books. So while I bought the loose leaf edition by mistake, its one I'm glad I made.

Buying textbooks through this seller instead of the college bookstore saved a substantial amount of money. The book was exactly the one needed for the class. Thanks.