Author: AV Evans
By University of California Press

Truly stunning aesthetic photography!, 2001-12-02
Wow, this book is good enough to be bought for just the photographs alone! They are truly stunning-set with complementary backgrounds, and balanced lighting with high quality crisp graphic images. This book really shows the Beetle order to be one of the most amazing and diverse of all life on earth. But it's not just a pretty 'coffee table book', no, it's full of facts and scientific information about beetles, their varieties, habitats, importance in the world; anatomy, biology, relationships with human cultures, and their unending beauty and forms. It appears well researched and full of clear concise information, not to mention page after page of 'WOW' factor pictures. I think it would be good for any enthusiast or novice alike.

Author: B Holldobler
By Harvard University Press

Journey To The Ants, 2008-10-18
'Journey To The Ants' is an amazing book looking at the life and evolution of these incredible, tenacious little insects. It is well written, in clear, jargon-free language and has the most incredible illustrations and photography throughout. It covers most aspect of Ant life, from reproduction, inner colony conflict, external conflicts, parasites and a whole lot more. I love how each chapter is marked with an ant (chapter one, one ant, chapter two, two ants etc), rather than a number, to signify where you are in the book, a small but delightful touch. I also like the wide margins to one side on each page as I find myself filling them with notes and questions. I also find myself wanting to recount and share each fact and insight and soon realised that this book has them in such vast quantities that I'd be better off suggesting anyone read this book in it's entirety. It is thoroughly engrossing, mentally stimulating and leaves you in awe at the wonder of nature and the various aspects of Ant life. Truly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book all I can say is that it is a highly, highly recommended read

Author: Brian Parkinson
By New Holland Publishers (New Zealand) Ltd

Author: ML Winston
By Harvard University Press

Author: Andrew Ross
By The Natural History Museum

Author: Dorothy Gennard
By WileyBlackwell

The best introduction to the subject i have seen , 2007-05-03
As a student that recently compleated a masters in forensic science, in which my thesis was an entomology based practical, i have read most books on the subject from the memoirs of Dr Zak and Dr Goff, to Bryd and Castner, Greenberg and Kunich as well and Smiths "mannual" and Catts "procedural guide", and i must say that this is the best starting point for an undergraduate, it has a few major points i must highlight,
first is avalible in a cheaper paper back which can keep the cost down (compare this with all the other forensic entomology books), Second this book has worked examples of the maths involoved, as well as questions to test yourself, also how to use excel to do some of the work. Thirdly it includes lab protocals, which a lecturer could use to form the basis of a practical, (also the amateur entomologist could use them for taxonomic studies), the book i feel is lucid enough for the beginer (a problem that can vex the higher priced texts), and yet authorative enough that the more advanced can still find new infomation in,
Of course if you are very serious about the subject you will own all the books, but this is where i would recomend to start

Andy

Author: B Holldobler
By Harvard University Press

Journey To The Ants, 2008-10-18
'Journey To The Ants' is an amazing book looking at the life and evolution of these incredible, tenacious little insects. It is well written, in clear, jargon-free language and has the most incredible illustrations and photography throughout. It covers most aspect of Ant life, from reproduction, inner colony conflict, external conflicts, parasites and a whole lot more. I love how each chapter is marked with an ant (chapter one, one ant, chapter two, two ants etc), rather than a number, to signify where you are in the book, a small but delightful touch. I also like the wide margins to one side on each page as I find myself filling them with notes and questions. I also find myself wanting to recount and share each fact and insight and soon realised that this book has them in such vast quantities that I'd be better off suggesting anyone read this book in it's entirety. It is thoroughly engrossing, mentally stimulating and leaves you in awe at the wonder of nature and the various aspects of Ant life. Truly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book all I can say is that it is a highly, highly recommended read

Author: Hazel Davies, Carol A. Butler
By Rutgers University Press

Author: P. J. Gullan, Peter Cranston
By WileyBlackwell

Insects: An Outline of Entomology, 2007-06-08
This book explains difficult concepts with ease and makes complicated terminology a breeze. It should not only be considered essential reading for any zoology student (which it is), but ideal for anyone intrested in insects and wishes for a better understanding.

A truly pleasurable read.

Author: Andrew Spielman, Michael D'Antonio
By Faber and Faber

According to Andrew Spielman, a Harvard University specialist in tropical disease and his coauthor of Mosquito, award-winning science writer Michael D'Antonio, no animal on earth has touched so directly and profoundly the lives of so many human beings as the mosquito. Mosquito is their fascinating account for the general reader of the life story of this tiny insect and the havoc it has wrought over the millennia from the Roman soldiers that died of malaria in Scotland to the tens of thousands that died of yellow fever during the first attempt by the French to build the Panama canal at the end of the 19th century. Now the mosquito is back with a vengeance and her pathogens are apparently getting worse, making more people sick and claiming more lives, millions of lives, every year. Mosquito is full of fascinating facts and stories about the amazing variability of the insect. There are some 2500 species of mosquito compared with 4000 species for all mammals. Mosquitoes can survive almost anywhere on land from below sea level in the Californian desert up to 8000 ft in the Himalayas, and Spielman has found the common house mosquito from Harvard in the US to Confuciu...
Good mix of science and storytelling, 2006-07-27
I am sometimes wary of buying books with more that one author, worried that the narriative voice will be all jumbled. Mosquito is well written. It gives you enough gorey details and personal histories to keep you interested and includes some interesting science along the way. Some of the stastics are staggering - the mosquito is responsible for nearly half the deaths of all the people who have ever lived! For me this book embodies so much of what makes good science writing: compelling story telling, hard science and it leaves you with something to think about at the end.