Echinostomes as Experimental Models for Biological Research, edited by Bernard Fried and Thaddeus K. Graczyk. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 2000. ISBN 0-7923-6156-3.
The goal of this book is to discuss, summarize, and (mostly) condense the information available on echinostomatid trematodes in order to provide a single reference work for research on these critters. There is a good deal of information-squeezing, primarily in the form of extensive tables on a variety of subjects that list, at a minimum, the literature references from which a reader would obtain the indicated information. There are advantages and disadvantages to this approach. The most notable advantage is that the echinostome literature is nicely compacted and easy to access; the largest disadvantage is that, with some notable exceptions, the prose of the book often is less a discussion than it is an outline. This is not to say that a reader cannot learn about...