Inanimate Life, an open textbook considering non-animal organisms by George Briggs, will soon be released by Milne Open Textbooks. “This book is both traditional and non-traditional. Although the kinds of organisms this text studies is similar to most botany texts of the last hundred years, the approach to study is very different. This book is focused on organismal biology, not phylogeny/taxonomy. It considers most of the groups that were covered in traditional botany texts, that is, ‘EBA = everything but animals’: plants, fungi, bacteria/archaebacteria, and most of the organisms that used to be placed in the protist category. But the approach to these groups is ‘organismal’ and comparative. It attempts to define the organism level of life (not as easy as you might assume) and then comparatively examines four features that define organisms: their structure, their means of reproduction, their acquisition of matter and energy, and their interactions with conditions and with other organisms.”