News — Book review

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a new book review of: An Illustrated History of Butterflies of the Afrotropical Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, Reunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues and Socotra by James M. Lawrence and Mark C. Williams. The review, in Metamorphosis (Official Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa) Volume 32 (2021), Editorial content: 20 - 20 by Jeremy C.H. Dobson is available online here) and reads as follows:I remember paging through Bernard d’Abrera’s Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region for the first time: my eye would frequently be drawn to some image of an extraordinary butterfly...

We are pleased to announce a new review of our recent title: Why Nature Conservation Isn't Working: Understanding Wildlife in the Modern World by Dr Adrian Spalding has just been published in the latest volume of Atropos (2021: 69, 70-71). Snippets: "British species are the central focus, their recorded history and their relationship with human beings.  Extensive and numerous examples are succinctly outlined, demonstrating the commonest, and some of the rarer, origins of species that currently inhabit the UK, and sometimes places further afield. There is frequent reference to both naturally arising means of establishment and various people-assisted pathways. …...

We are pleased to announce that our latest title: Why Nature Conservation Isn't Working: Understanding Wildlife in the Modern World by Dr Adrian Spalding is now available (click the cover below to go to the product page for more info or to order a copy). Synopsis: Species are central to nature conservation, but we see wildlife as adjuncts to people without connection with their authentic habitats. With this limited view, we cannot save wildlife from extinction. Concentration on iconic species achieves brilliant publicity but looks after the icing whilst the cake crumbles beneath. What people are saying This thought-provoking new...

We are very pleased to announce that two new reviews of our recent titles have been published in Antenna, the newsletter of the Royal Entomological Society. The first concerns our RES award winning title: True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) (Second Edition) and the second our recent title on Butterflies of the Afrotropical Indian Ocean Islands.   For more details on these reviews visit the RES website by clicking their logo below or to see more info about the titles and order copies please click the relevant image above.

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a new book review by Everything Dinosaur of our recent title: A guide to fossil collecting on the East Dorset coast, by Steve Snowball and Craig Chivers. Click cover for more info, contents etc. or to order your copy Edited snippets from the review: This highly acclaimed guidebook is beautifully illustrated with more than 200 colour photographs not only showing fossil finds but also highlighting the stunning landscape and geology of this part of the southern coast of England. It is aimed at amateur as well as the more serious fossil...