A timely, instructive and controversial book, which delivers unexpected answers.
Dr Ken Thompson was for twenty years a lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He writes regularly on gardening for the Daily Telegraph. His previous book was Do We Need Pandas? The uncomfortable truth about biodiversity.
Thompson makes his case in a lively, readable style, spiced with a
healthy dose of sarcasm towards "aliens = bad" fundamentalists.
Better yet, he bolsters his argument with plenty of citations from
the scientific literature, which adds welcome heft. -- Bob Holmes *
New Scientist *
Lively and punchy...You walk away from this book feeling flushed
and a bit bruised. -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times *
Ken Thompson...challenges us to look at the issue dispassionately
and logically...a well put together book about the science and the
philosophy surrounding invasive species. -- Simon Barnes * Times
*
An important and thought provoking book that deserves widespread
exposure. At risk of hyperbole, I'd say it is to ecology what
Darwin's Origin of Species was to evolution. -- Brian Clegg *
popularscience.co.uk *
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