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1. Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds

BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?

1. Vernon Bailey

Animal Life of the Carlsbad Cavern

1. Vernon Bailey

Animal Life of the Carlsbad Cavern

1. Ray Reedman

The Vanishing Mew Gull

A rich and detailed consideration of the names and naming of the birds of the Western Palaearctic.

1. Tamara Surani Fernando

Shallow Blue Empire

Across the Indian Ocean, seafaring communities developed nuanced pearl-diving expertise in the centuries before European imperialism. Then, in the late nineteenth century, Western demand for pearls skyrocketed. Shallow Blue Empire explores the tensions that emerged when local lifeways clashed with British ambitions for profit maximization.

1. Jean , Vernon

Attracting Butterflies, Bees and Other Garden Pollinators

Attracting Garden Pollinators is a friendly, accessible, information packed guide to gardening for and with pollinators. Pollinators are in trouble, but our gardens can help. Gardens represent a vast, varied 'nature reserve' packed with plants rich in nectar and pollen to sustain these delicate creatures. This book explores the role that pollinators play and how gardeners and people with gardens can do something to help attract and support them. From butterflies (and their caterpillars - with host plant information) to surprising pollinators (moths, wasps, beetles flies and hornets) and of course including honeybees, hoverflies and bumblebees, this book will offer an insight into their fragile existence, lifecycles and their vital role in the food chain and the natural cycle.Jean Vernon is the Best-Selling author of The Secret Lives of Garden Bees.