Books Received for Review
Books for review are available to members of the Botanical Society of America. If you are a BSA member and would like to review a book or books for PSB, the easiest way to do so is to: highlight and copy the book details, click on the Reviewer Requested link to the right of the book's details and paste the information into the email form that pops up. Remember to include your name, University/Department, all of your mailing details and the date by which the book will be reviewed. Book reviews should not exceed 800-1000 words. Alternatively, e-mail Mackenzie Taylor, the editor-in-chief, at psb@botany.org, including the details noted above, as soon as you notice the book of interest in this list, because they go quickly!
Legume of Arizona: An Illustrated Flora and Reference. Sida, Bot. Misc. 64.
McMahon, Michelle M. Matthew B. Johnson, Kirsten N. Lake, Martin F. Wojciechowski, and Mark W. Bierner. 2024. ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-77-5 (flex-binding; US$45). 540 pp. BRIT Press.
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Illustrated Genera of Rust Fungi of Brazil
de Carvalho Jr., Anibal Alves and Joe Fleetwood Hennen. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-889878-72-0. (hardback; US$40. 148 pp. BRIT Press.
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Introduction to Plants in Central Somaliland. 2nd edition
Awake, Ahmed Ibrahim, Faisal Jana Gelle, and Helen Pickering. 2024. ISBN: 978-1-889878-76-8 (Paperback; US$29). 148 pp. BRIT Press
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A Little Queer Natural History
Davis, Josh L. 2024. ISBN: 9780226837031. (paper; US$16). 128 pp. University of Chicago Press
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Saving the World: How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change from 1770 to the Present.
Bennett, Brett M. and Gregory A. Barton. 2024. ISBN: 9781789148749. (Cloth US$25). 256 pp. Reaction Books
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Living with the Trees of Life 2nd edition: a practical guide to rebooting the planet through tropical agriculture adn putting farmers first
Leaky, Roger R.B. 2024. ISBN: 9781800624986. (Paperback US$40) 280pp. CABI
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Max and the Milkweed
Grand, Auggie. 2024. (paper US$32.52). 31 pp. Auggie Grand Books. (for readers 2-5).
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From Seed to Seed: A Pictorial Study Showing How a Bean Plant Grows
Paparozzi, Ellen, M. Elizabeth Conley, and Christian G. Elowsky. 2024. ebook. Plant and Soil Science eLibrary. (with associated lessons for class use).
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Sustainability for the Forgotten
Machlis, Gary E. 2024. ISBN: 9781647691677 (Paper US$24.95) 262 pp. The University of Utah Press.
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Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics
Thaler, Gregory. 2024. ISBN: 978-0-300-27248-2. (paper US$40) 312 pp. Yale University Press
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Frustrating Flowers & Puzzling Plants: Identifying the difficult species of Britain and Ireland.
Warren, John M. 2024. ISBN: 978-1-78427-331-6. (paper US$40). 290 pp. Pelagic
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Botánicos: A novel
Meerow, Alan. 2023. ISBN: 979-8-9891677-0-82. (Paper US$14.99) 92 pp. Griffinia Press.
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Edible Alliums: Botany, Production, and Uses
Rabinowitch, Haim D. and Brian Thomas (eds.). 2023. ISBN: 9781789249972. (Hardback US$155). 307 pp. CABI
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A Splendor of Succulents and Cacti
Ball, Caroline. 2023. ISBN: 9781851245970 (cloth, US$25). 144 pp. Bodleian Library Publishing
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A guide to the Flora of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir | Una guía a la de de la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir
Harper, Alan, Sula Vanderplank, and Jon Rebman. 2021. ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-64-5 (flex-binding US$35). 320 pp. BRIT Press.
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Plant Guide: Geology, Archaeology, Tide Pools, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals, Channel Islands, California. (Sida, Bot. Misc. 61)
Riley, Jim and editors. 2023. ISBN 13: 978-1-889878-70-6 (Flex-binding US$55). 290 pp. BRIT Press.
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Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition
Lesica, Peter with Contributions by Matt Lavin and Peter F. Stickney. 2022. ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-87-4. (flex binding US$65). 729 pp. BRIT Press.
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Tidal Marshes of Long Island, New York.
Potente, John E (ed). 2022. ISSN: 22380 128x. (Hardback) Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Society Vol 26. 4th edition. 171 pp. Torrey Botanical Society.
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Grasses of the Northern Forest: Quick Guides
Jenkins, Jerry. 2022. ISBN: 9781501764318. (digital; US$11.95) 4 pp. Cornell University Press (physical copy available by request).
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Field Guide to Manzanitas: California, North America, and Mexico
Kauffmann, Michael, Tom Parker, and Michael Vasey. Photography by Jeff Bisbee. 2021. ISBN: 978-1-941624-15-9. (Paper US$27.95). 175 pp. Backcountry Press.
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Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
McElwain, Jennifer C., Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian J. Glasspool. 2021. ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5. (Cloth US$30). 144 pp. University of Chicago Press
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Flora of Oregon. Volume 2: Dicots A-F
Meyers, Stephen, Thea Jaster, Katie E. Mitchell, Tanya Harvey, and Linda K. Hardison (eds.). 2020. 978-1-889878-61-4 (Hardback US$85). 880 pp. BRIT Press.
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Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes: A California Study in Rebalancing the Needs of People and Nature
Butterfield, H. Scott, T. Rodd Kelsey, and Abigail K. Hart (eds). 2021. ISBN: 9781642831269. (Paper US$39). 252 pp. Island Press
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