BOOK REVIEWS

Nature Strange and Beautiful: How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

Egbert Giles Leigh Jr and Christian Ziegler
Yale University Press, £21.50

The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild

Thomas D Seeley
Princeton University Press, £25.00

Saving the Dammed: Why We Need Beaver-Modified Ecosystems

Ellen Wohl
Oxford University Press, £22.99

Cowen’s History of Life (Sixth Edition)

Michael J Benton (Ed)
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, £55.00

Film Review: Human Nature

Directed by Adam Bolt

In cinemas from Dec 2019

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

John W. Wilson and Richard B. Primack
OpenBook Publishers, £57.00

Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir

Callum Roberts
Profile books, £16.99

Ahab’s Rolling Sea: a Natural History of Moby-Dick

Richard J King
University of Chicago Press, £20.70