At 9:59 AM 3/19/96 -0800, Patrick Elvander wrote:
>I am going to be teaching an intermediate college level course next year
>called Plants and Human Affairs.
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>If anyone teaches a similar course and can
>recommend a recent textbook, I would appreciate it.
Patrick,
I have used two books for my Plants and Human Affairs course.
My couse is a thinly disguised horticulture/plant physiology/botany
course. I do not do the "catalog" of ethnobotany bit. I also
don't do the "tiptoe through the divisions of plants" routine
either. It has been very difficult to find a decent book, but
here are my two choices (so far):
Brian Capon "Botany for Gardeners" Timber Press 1990.
W. R. Bienz "Why and How of Home Horticulture" Freeman 2ded.
I too am interested in what other people use for any similar
courses...
There are some newer ethnobotany books out that are very nice
(in color etc.) but are too "catalog" for me. There are
some nice watered-down botany books for non-majors, but
those tend to have a too-long sequence of "catalog" of the
phylogenetic type for me.
What I have been seeking is a really good introductory plant
physiology text. Salisbury & Ross, Taiz & Zeiger, Mohr & Schopfer
are too deep for my students. Hopkins has promise in the next
edition...too bad about the artwork in the 1st ed--the editor
needs to take the heat on that! Galston, Davies & Satter is
just about right but WAY WAY WAY too out of date. So I keep
looking...
ross
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