A fat reference for serious students who want to learn about the behavior and ecology of a group of large predatory invertebrates and for people in any profession with affection and respect for dragonflies themselves. Corbet (U. of Edinburgh, Scotland) has largely rewritten his 1962 Biology of Dragonflies , but the arrangement of chapters is similar and he continues the same effort to systematize information about tropical and temperate representatives of the order Odonata. Habitat selection and oviposition, respiration and foraging of the larva, spatial displacement by flight, reproductive behavior, and dragonflies and people are among his topics. He includes a battery of color plates. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)