This is a good example of the popular science books produced as an adjunct to television series during the 1980s and 1990s by leading media companies, here the BBC. These books were usually of very high production standards, and the text is authoritative, the photographs and illustrations outstanding (often pioneering for their time. This one is about the various species, from animals and plants to micro-organisms, that live with, in, and about human beings and human environments. They include both free-ranging or swmi-wild species and cultivated or domesticated ones. This is a sort of companion to the same author's 'Supersense', which describes the physical adaptations (hearing, sight, smell, etc.) that masrk many species as even superior to humans, with all their technology. ( )