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|author=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey

|title=The Hunt

|rating=4

|genre=Animals and Wildlife

|summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how it's all about the capture and killing of one animal by another. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

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|author= Kima Cargill

|summary=''Much of what passes for invasion biology is poorly supported hype.'' So says our author, and you can easily fall into agreeing with him after reading his book. In much the same way the ''Daily Mail'' et al have their own attitudes to immigrants of the human kind, so it would appear do many people have similar notions about immigrant species. And the end results might be much more damaging.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251746</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe~~

~~|title=Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Popular Science~~

|summary=I'm fascinated by volcanoes, by their uncontrollability and potential to disrupt way beyond their immediate environment and for years to come, but I've always struggled to find books which were accessible to someone without specialist knowledge - or at least more behind them than my very basic qualifications. Like many people my attention was drawn to Iceland when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in the spring of 2010, not because of the plight of the Icelanders and their livestock, but because of the disruption it caused over much of Europe, I'm afraid. I began to look at other volcanoes in Iceland - particularly Katla, reputed historically to erupt in conjunction with Eyjafjallajokull. It's likely that a full-scale eruption of Katla would cause even more disruption than its little sister - and then I started to look back at other eruptions in Iceland. The one which few people seem to know about is Laki - which might have been one of the triggers of the French Revolution.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250049</amazonuk>~~

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