What We Are Reading Today: Dragonflies of Britain and Ireland

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Updated 06 September 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 updated fifth edition features hundreds of stunning images and identification charts covering all 58 resident, migrant and former breeding species.

Detailed species profiles provide concise information on identification, status and trend, distribution, flight period, behavior, breeding habitat, and population and conservation. 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Python Practice Lab’

Updated 07 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Python Practice Lab’

Authors: Angelica Lim and Victor Cheung

This classroom-tested, workbook-style text teaches basic programming by guiding readers to write Python programs that mimic interactive chatbots. 

Unlike textbooks with opaque examples explained in dry, monotonous code, Python Practice Lab engages readers immediately, with more than thirty motivating and hands-on examples. 

Readers learn by writing fun, working programs that gradually become more difficult as new concepts are introduced.