Reviews (7)

Native Plants of NE
Excellent book for those of us in the NE States and are gardeners. This book is particularly good for people moving into the area.

great resource
A local nursery owner had recommended this bood as a guide in helping me landscape my new yard. The information is great and the pictures are extremely helpful. It offers a lot of variety and not your everday-popular plants/shrubs. I'm looking forward to having things my neighbors don't even know about!

Well worth buying for native plant enthusiasts
This is alot more than a seed catalog read.I enjoyed the Professor's introduction, in which he shares a great deal about many plants in the book, his favorites, why, and how they work in his own garden.Not particularly applicable to me personally was a good deal of information on ecosystem types in the Northeast and wetland information.
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Subjects:  1. Gardening / Horticulture    2. Native plant gardening    3. Native plants for cultivation    4. Nature    5. Nature/Ecology    6. Northeastern States    7. Plants - General    8. Regional - Canada    9. Regional - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)    10. Nature / Plants    11. Nature   

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Absolutely fascinating work
This book took me into the grassroots level work of the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner.I was glad to get a glimpse into what the world is just recognizing as the new frontier - the hope that comes from action at the local level which makes real course changes in our world as a whole.I enjoyed the very practical outline of this movement's accomplishments and connections to the growing consciousness for earth's slow, steady salvation.

GREEN BELT MOVEMENT
I found this book to be an enlightening and educating account of the background and work of the current Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Wangari Maathai.THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT is currently the only volume that provides as much insight on this topic.
Depressed about the environment?Read this book!!
The Green Belt Movement by Wangari Maathai is a wonderful, informative and user-friendly book that gives a good sense of the movement's history and the person behind it. Just as Maathai in her work likes to keep her hands in the dirt planting trees, in her book she cuts directly to the meat and bones of what the Green Belt Movement is about and how it functions practically on the ground.
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Subjects:  1. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    2. Environmental Studies    3. Green Belt Movement (Society :    4. Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)    5. Kenya    6. Natural Resources    7. Nature    8. Nature/Ecology    9. Tree planting    10. Trees & Forests - General    11. Africa    12. Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations   

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Less than stellar
I was disappointed to find that there was no useful information contained therein. While the pictures were very well done there were no colloquial names to help identify species.

Good supplemental book
I own about a dozen mushroom books and have recently added this one to my collection. "Shooming" can be a dangerous pursuit and, like almost all are aware, absolute identification is required. I don't think I would personally feel competent with this book alone, nor any other for that matter. I feel there are better books but these are very heavy monstrosities. This one, like a few, can be carried into the field while the larger, more definitive guides await at home, or in the car. The pictures are good but I prefer a "Peterson Guide" type approach to indicate what, exactly, I should be looking for. My only other personal objection is that I prefer a guide that uses their Latin name since this knowledge will be more easily transferable from one book to another.
A poor choice
I purchased this book becase it said Audubon.Thus I expected much more than I received. I was hoping to identify a few mushrooms I had found in my area.After spending a great deal of time, I was able to identify none.There are far better pictures available in other books.For instance the picture of the Shaggy Mane does not look at all like the Shags I have collected and eaten.All in all, a waste of money. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Canada    2. Fungi    3. Identification    4. Mushrooms    5. Nature    6. Nature/Ecology    7. United States    8. Botany & plant sciences    9. Nature / Mushrooms    10. North America    11. Trees & wildflowers   

Reviews (6)

A must have
This book is excellent to keep in the car during forays and cross reference with mushroom field guides. The pictures are almost 3 dimensional and most of them show the various stages of the fruit bodies. The photos also show with clarity, every part of the mushroom in detail in their true colors and variations. This affordable reissue of this highly regarded tome caused quite a clamor in my mycolgist club.

Excellent mycological guide
The photographs and descriptions are among the most useful we have in our collection of mushroom guides.Marvellousfor amateur mycologists and veteran mushroom hunters alike.

a required text!!!!
As a long time schromer this book is used all the time. It is not a complete guide to wild mushrooms no book is since there a thousands of different species in the U. S..The pictures are the highpoint of this book, although the text describing what a mushroom is and how to use the book is also a value. I have the 1st edition and it is getting dogeared from heavy use ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fungi    2. Identification    3. Mushrooms    4. Nature    5. Nature/Ecology    6. North America    7. Pictorial works    8. Reference    9. Reference And Information Services    10. Fungi - North America - Identification    11. Mushrooms - North America - Identification    12. Mushrooms - North America - Pictorial works    13. Nature / Mushrooms   

Reviews (4)

Know Your Fungi
A lot of this book is about fungi reproduction, and therefore, fungi sex -- although a lot of reproduction is anamorphic (asexual). Currently, there are over 100,000 fungi described scientifically (over 10,000 species of mushrooms), but Dr. Kendrik estimates that this is less than one tenth of the Earth's mycota (fungi). This book, of course, does not discuss all 100,000 fungi. It discusses fungi classifications, and some of the most important fungi. 3rd Editon The Fifth Kingdom 2001
The Fifth Kingdom is indeed an excellent treatment on the fungi kingdom. A lively text makes this topic approachable to most. I would also highly recommend the CDROM Dr. Kendrick has produced to go with the text. Over 3000 colour images and animations have been included which really brings the topic to life. He has placed many of these chapters online at his site mycolog com . I would recommend a visit there to anyone who would like to learn more about either the text or CD.

Please reprint!
I too have read this text and found it excellent. Alas, I now want to buyit (and use it as a text in my class) but it is no longer in print. I hopeit is reprinted soon and if it is-BUY IT! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fiction    2. General    3. History - General History    4. Mycology, fungi (non-medical)    5. Popular science   

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An excellent reference on native perennials
This A-Z encyclopedia features over 600 species of native plants for the American gardener. All of the plants included here are perennials which are available to purchase in nurseries and mail-order catalogs. This was the author's major criteria for inclusion and some popular plants were omitted because they are not easily obtainable in the trade.
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Subjects:  1. Flowering Plants (Angiospermae)    2. Flowers - Annuals    3. Flowers - Perennials    4. Gardening    5. Gardening / Horticulture    6. Gardening/Plants    7. Home Gardening    8. Native plant gardening    9. Native plants for cultivation    10. North America    11. Ornamental Plants    12. Plants - General    13. Reference    14. Botany & plant sciences    15. Gardening / Flowers / Perennials    16. Gardening: plants   

Subjects:  1. Floriculture    2. Flowering Plants (Angiospermae)    3. Life Sciences - Botany    4. Life Sciences - Horticulture    5. Nature    6. Nature/Ecology    7. Plants - General    8. Science    9. Botany & plant sciences    10. Gardening: plants    11. Science / Botany   

Subjects:  1. Life Sciences - Biology - General    2. Life Sciences - Botany    3. Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology    4. Reference    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Insects (entomology)    8. Plant reproduction & propagation    9. Reference works    10. Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates   

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Good book for setting up grow area
5 different gardens, from small to large, are profiled here.Many great ideas.Highly recommended.

Small book with some garden designs
Five easy gardens is what you are buying here and is exactly what you get to see. This book is suitable for anyone who wants to see how some other growers do it. Cervantes goes to Europe to interview and photograph growers. He then uses the information they give him to write a book about how they grow. Interesting.

Great for the small timer
Jorge Cervantes, Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal to the literate (not quite stoned out of thier head smoker) these names should mean something, these three guys have not only writen books that have recieved international recognition but have grown crops that have won yearly at the Cannibis Cups, all you people who say you read and review High Times, please take a break from your swag stuff and do some reading.This book is full of info for the first timer and those who want to start and stay on a small scale, if you just want to know how to start this will get you there, but if you are going to hang with the big boys get off the porch and start studying. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Gardening    2. Gardening / Horticulture    3. Gardening/Plants    4. House Plants & Indoor    5. Plants - General    6. Techniques    7. Drugs    8. Marijuana   

Subjects:  1. Identification    2. Nature    3. Nature/Ecology    4. New York (State)    5. Pictorial works    6. Trees    7. Trees & Forests - General    8. Botany & plant sciences    9. Northeastern & North Atlantic states    10. Reference works    11. Trees & wildflowers   

Subjects:  1. Botany (Specific Aspects)    2. General    3. Life Sciences - Botany    4. Plants - General    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Science / Botany    8. Seeds   

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The moss "bible"
This is a very comprehensive set.This is a very useful key with invaluable drawings. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Canada    2. East (U.S.)    3. Life Sciences - Botany    4. Mosses    5. Mosses (Musci)    6. Nature    7. Plants - General    8. Botany & plant sciences    9. North America    10. Plant life: general    11. Reference works    12. Science / Botany   

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An Orchid Education
This book is the best book I have read about Orchids. You will receive an education about types, care, repotting and growing all types of Orchids. I highly recommend this book for the beginner to the advanced grower and hobbiest.

Orchids for Dummies
Great Book for folks that are beginners with Orchids.Well Organized and easy to undestand!
Great Book!
This is a great book for beginners growing Orchids.The only drawback I saw was whether or not to prune after the blooms fall. I still don't have the answer to that question.But this book does cover a lot of other areas and was easy to follow and understand. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Floriculture    2. Flowering Plants (Angiospermae)    3. Flowers - Orchids    4. Gardening    5. Gardening / Horticulture    6. Gardening/Plants    7. Gardening / Flowers / Orchids   

Reviews (16)

Southeast Blues
Despite at least one other reviewer's remarks, I insist that this volume is greatly diminished for those of us in very different locations than the book's initial, (and I would say continued), focus area -the west coast.The titling and promotion of this book fail to make clear what it is truly about.
Love of Mushrooms
I always appreciate reading something by a person who loves what they are writing about. It seems like all too often a book is written by someone who seems to know what they are talking about, but don't LOVE what they are talking about.
Gettin' My Own Copy
I borrowed the book from a co-worker and have found it to be an invaluable and extremely handy and easy to use field reference guide.The information is excellent and the photos are just as helpful. The Quick Key in the front and back of the book help the Identification process go quicker. I am hooked and have to get my own copy now!!Great for beginners like me!
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Subjects:  1. Fungi    2. Identification    3. Mushrooms    4. Nature    5. Nature/Ecology    6. Pictorial works    7. West (U.S.)    8. Applied ecology   

Reviews (5)

A cute guide to trees for kids and parents alike...
My kids find the Fandex format easy to use, and the information on them accessible. We have several, and they're fun for all of us to use together. Disappointment
I was very disappointed with this "book."I felt the variety of trees found in this collection to be far too minimal.If you plan on learning about trees in the winter, good luck.The primary method for identification is based on leaves.Although you can identify trees based on bark, etc. it would take hours with this manual. Also, it is far to bulky and awkward to comfortably carry along on a hike.

a stroke of genius
I read a lot of field guides, and the format of this one is a stroke ofgenius.You match the leaf to the die cut leaves at the top of the"book" and you're well on your way.My kids also adore it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 4-6    3. Identification    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Nature/Ecology    6. North America    7. Pictorial works    8. Science & Nature - Trees & Forests    9. Trees    10. Juvenile Nonfiction / Nature / Forests & Trees   

Subjects:  1. 1830-1886    2. Botany    3. Catalogs and collections    4. Dickinson, Emily,    5. Flowers    6. Gardening    7. Knowledge    8. Nature    9. Nature/Ecology    10. Plants    11. Plants - General    12. Type specimens    13. Botany & plant sciences    14. English    15. Nature / Plants    16. Plant life: general    17. Poetry & poets: 19th century    18. USA   

Reviews (8)

an excellent text
This is an excellent introduction to plant pathology and the kind of book one tends to hold onto to use as a reference after finishing their coursework.I have known plenty of graduate students who've held onto their copies, and I've really never heard any serious criticisms of this book.The coverage is broad, and it will serve as a useful, interesting and highly readable reference for those with interests in bacteriology, virology, mycology, botany and a variety of other fields that overlap with aspects of plant pathology.Typically when I rate textbooks I am fairly harsh because the cost is generally high while contents often leave much to be desired.In my opinion this book is an exception, and I think the cost reasonably reflects the value of the information contained.

Gold standard for general phytopathology.
I have been out of Phytopathology since the fall of 1971.Over the years I have; from time to time; skimmed journals like Mycologia and Phytopathology.So the old urge came back and I bought this text on the recommendation of a friend.
Besttextbook on Plant Pathology
This is by far the best reference on the subject of Plant Pathology.It will be useful not only to plant pathologists, but to other plant scientists and biologists as well.George has done an excellent job in bringing his now famous textbook up to date.I have many books on Plant Pathology; this is by far the best.The fifth edition includes many new pictures and drawings to illustrate the concepts relating to diseases of plants.Plus many new sections dealing with the state-of-art of this science.George says this will probably be the last edition he will write.What a way to cap such an illustrious career! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Agriculture - General    2. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    3. Life Sciences - Botany    4. Plant diseases    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Trees & Forests - General    8. Plant pathology & diseases    9. Science / Botany   

Subjects:  1. Acetic acid    2. Acetylcoenzyme A    3. Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology    4. Metabolism    5. Microbial metabolism    6. Microorganisms    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Microbiology (non-medical)    10. Science / Zoology    11. Zoology & animal sciences   

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Awesome
Thsi book was a perfect bookb for someone who wants to know the straight facts about Botany. For example, a college student might enjoy useing this book because it is packed with so much information.

Excellent Introduction to Botany
This book is a must for anyone seriously interested in learning about plants and their relation to the other living kingdoms. It is richly illustrated and covers material clearly and in-depth. I have used the first edition for over eight years as 1) a good read and 2) a reference thatcontinues to inform me as a serious gardener as well as an educated layman.The book emphasizes the evolutionary adaptative aspects of plants to theirenvironment. Starting from the basics of chemistry, it covers plantanatomy, physiology, genetics, and taxonomy. It is a wonderful resource.

U.C.Student
This was our text for Bis. 1C (Winter 98)at U.C. Davis.The book was well illustrated, but was far too in-depth for an intro course.I foundlecture notes more useful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Botany    2. Botany (General)    3. Flowers    4. Life Sciences - Biology - General    5. Life Sciences - Botany    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Textbooks    9. Botany & plant sciences    10. Science / Biology   

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Good reference book and learning tool
I haven't found many good books on algae that have come out in the pastfew years.This book is a great one with lots of information and pictures. It would be better if some of the pictures were in color, instead of allof them being in black and white.Some algae are indentified by color socolor pictures would be helpful.It has really good information on diatomsalso which is nice. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Algae    2. Algology    3. Fish    4. Life Sciences - Biology - General    5. Life Sciences - Botany    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Mycology, fungi (non-medical)    9. Science / Botany