Preview: University of California Press, Berkeley, Ca, 288 pp; Hardback, ISBN: 9780520261990, Price: Usd 29.95, £ 20.95 Dr. Alexander L. Wild, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il 61801, USA. E-mail: alexwild@illinois.edu Myrmecol. News 14: 20 (online 24 June 2010) Issn 1994-4136 (print), Issn 1997-3500 (online) Received 10 May 2010; accepted 11 May 2010 Let me start with the obvious: Adventures among ants is the most visually stunning ant book ever published. The physical product, from glossy paper to the tasteful font, is an aesthetic tour de force. The photographs are ... well, this is a Mark Moffett book, and unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past two decades – a reasonable place for a myrmecologist, I suppose – you'll know that Moffett is the National Geographic photographer responsible for much of that magazine's insect imagery from the 1980s onwards. The photographs are spectacular.…