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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...

We are very pleased to announce the latest title that is currently in the early stages of preparation, so probably will not be ready for release until late 2018 or early 2019. The title is: Fossils of the Milwaukee Formation: A Middle Devonian Paleoecosystem from Wisconsin, USA by Kenneth (Chris) Gass. This will be a pictorial guide to the animals and plants that lived during the Devonian Period in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over 380 million years ago, as told by the fossils they left behind. This heavily illustrated book (600 colour photos and line drawings) is supported by the author’s more...

We are pleased to announce that our forthcoming title Field Guide to Butterflies of The Philippines by Peter B. Hardy and James M. Lawrence is now close to completion and we are expecting to release this magnificent 488-page volume within the next few months. From the back cover The need for a comprehensive field guide to the butterflies of the Philippines has long been apparent. Interest in the butterflies in this country is rapidly moving away from the museum and commercial collector approach towards appreciating them as living organisms with a significant role in the ecosystem.All the 947 known Philippine...

We are very pleased to announce that our latest title: A Guide to Fossil Collecting in England and Wales by Steve Snowball and Craig Chapman of UKAFH (UK Amateur Fossil Hunters) has been formally released today. We have had advance copies available for some time now and the book has already been very well received by young and old alike. We expect that this year you will see more people rummaging around in the shingle looking for fossils than you may have done previously ... maybe you will be one of them. Our friend Gabs has already found her local...

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new invited review paper concerning the application of new imaging techniques in the study of fossil spiders. The paper, written by Dr Paul Selden (University of Kansas) and Dr David Penney (Siri Scientific Press and University of Manchester) was published in the high impact journal Earth-Science Reviews and can be accessed by clicking the link at the end of this short article. These authors have a long history or working together on fossil spiders, which occur as both fossils preserved in amber and as compression fossils in rock. In 2002 they...