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This jewel of a guide is backed by the Maine Butterfly Survey--a voucher-based project executed by citizen-scientist volunteers--and written by five expert authors. It opens with a preface, followed by a section on the history of butterfly studies in Maine and in its neighbors in Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. This area, also called the Acadian region, boasts some 120-plus species of butterflies, and these are presented next. This section includes their distinguishing characteristics, status in the area, habitat, biology, behavior, current threats to each, and other interesting details. The species are grouped by family (Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, and Nymphalidae), and each group can be quickly located by the color of the border of the pages on which they appear. Twenty species of possible occurrence are included, followed by a list of 23 taxa credited to the area but questionable or invalid. The handbook concludes with three appendixes (a checklist table, conservation status definitions, community scientists involved in the project) as well as references.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.

Linden and her coeditors of The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis have produced an indispensable volume not only for practitioners but also for those who want to follow recent developments in this field. This volume covers definitions, history, neurology, phenomenology, research, significant personages (such as Barber and Erickson), theories, and unscrupulous exploitation. Especially provocative are the discussions of hypnotic treatment for traumatized young people, the ecology of hypnosis, and the role of accessing and utilizing one's unconscious potentials. Several authors pay well-deserved attention to the connections of hypnosis to art, dissociation, meditation, neuroplasticity, placebo and nocebo effects, self-care, self-regulation, and the ongoing puzzles of its complexity. Many chapters are accompanied by excellent tables and diagrams, which are especially useful when states of consciousness, neurochemical correlates, and "hidden observers" are discussed. First and foremost are the chapters by an international team of writers from a variety of perspectives who provide detailed accounts of hypnotically facilitated psychotherapy and medicine, and why hypnosis needs to be an essential part of health care in the 21st century, a vision that this marvelous compendium will help to incarnate.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.