What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics’

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Updated 23 June 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics’

Author: Terrence Lyons

The book offers insight into a political group, with its origins in a small insurgency in northern Ethiopia, which transformed itself into a party (the EPRDF) with a hierarchy that links even the smallest village in the country to the center.

“The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics” offers a study of legacies of protracted civil war and rebel victory over the government, which continue to shape Ethiopian politics.

Terrence Lyons argues that the very structures that enabled the ruling party to overcome the challenges of a war-to-peace transition are the source of the challenges that it faces now.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland’

Updated 16 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland’

Authors: Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash

Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland is the only comprehensive photographic field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of the region. 
Written by two of Britain’s foremost Dragonfly experts, this fully revised and updated fifth edition features hundreds of stunning images and identification charts covering all 58 resident, migrant and former breeding species, and seven potential vagrants.
The book focuses on the identification of both adults and larvae, highlighting the key features.
Detailed species profiles provide concise information on identification, status and trend.