News — Book review

We are very pleased to announce a nice new review of our title by David Penney, Amber Palaeobiology: Research Trends and Perspectives for the 21st Century, just published in the latest edition (Fall 2017) of Priscum, the newsletter of the Palaeontological Society. Here is a brief snippet from the review: "Amber studies is a niche even in paleontology and when I picked up this book I assumed that it was going to be targeted at that small community of researchers or enthusiastic collectors (with the hope of some neat photos). I am glad I was so wrong! ... The book...

We are very pleased to announce a nice new review of our title by Phillip A. Isotalo (with a foreword by David M. Rudkin), Ordovician Trilobites of Southern Ontario, Canada and the Surrounding Region, just published in the latest edition (Fall 2017) of Priscum, the newsletter of the Palaeontological Society. Here is a brief snippet from the review: "The book is written to accommodate non-academics, but is still scholarly and fully referenced. With its reasonable price, the book will be a must-have for trilobite aficionados.... The meat of the book is the trilobite descriptions and pictures, fully accounting for half...

We are very pleased to announce a nice new review of our title by Kenneth (Chris) Gass, Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land - The fossils of Blackberry Hill, just published in the latest edition (Fall 2017) of Priscum, the newsletter of the Palaeontological Society. Here is a brief snippet from the review: "The photographs of the traces are extraordinary in their definition and clarity, and bring to life most vividly the activities of the animals. These trace fossils are of the greatest importance, as they are direct evidence that the beginnings of animal life leaving the...

We are very pleased to announce that a nice new review of our recent title: British Polacanthid Dinosaurs by William T. Blows, has just been published in the latest Newsletter of the Palaeontological Association (March 2017, number 94: 97-98) and are pleased to offer a further reduction of £5.00 on our already discounted price using the code: PALASS17 until Sunday. The following is taken from the review (slightly edited): The bulk of the monograph, chapters 3 to 7, are a description of the skeleton as preserved in individual specimens in museum collections. These chapters are richly illustrated with photographs, mostly...

We are very pleased to announce a new review of our title: Western Indian Ocean Tortoises: Ecology, Diversity, Evolution, Conservation, Palaeontology edited by J. Gerlach, which was published in the latest edition of Copeia 104(4):965-976 (December, 2016). From the review: "... a masterful account of the extinct and extant tortoises of these islands. It deserves a place in any herpetologists' or natural historian's library and we highly recommend it. The extensive references alone are worth the price of the book, as they compile a wealth of scattered, difficult-to-access literature. Eminent turtle and primate conservationist Russ Mittermeier wrote a short but...