BOOK REVIEWS

Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae

Kelly B Miller and Johannes Bergsten
Johns Hopkins University Press, £111.00

The Inner Workings of Life: Vignettes in Systems Biology

Eberhard O Voit
Cambridge University Press, £16.99

Insects: evolutionary success, unrivaled diversity and world domination

David B Rivers
Johns Hopkins University Press, £74.00

Life in the Dark: Illuminating biodiversity in the shadowy haunts of planet earth

Danté Fenolio

Johns Hopkins University, £26.00

Danté Fenolio is a biologist and a superlative photographer who has travelled the world capturing amazingly beautiful images. The theme running through this collection of photographs is the biodiversity of life in dark places. The book includes chapters on life in the deep sea, dark freshwater habitats, subterranean

Natural Defense: Enlisting bugs and germs to protect our food and health

Emily Monosson
Island Press, £22.99

The Sensory Ecology of Birds

Graham R Martin
Oxford University Press, £70.00 (paperback £31.49)

North Atlantic Right Whales: from Hunted Leviathan to Conservation Icon

David W Laist
Johns Hopkins University Press, £33.50

Deep Homology? Uncanny Similarities of Humans and Flies Uncovered by Evo-Devo

Lewis I Held Jr

Cambridge University Press, £59.99 (paperback £26.99)