People have different perspectives about exotic inva-sive species, ranging from love to hate. Even thescientific literature has contrasting ideas on basicpremises, such as whether we need to worry about thegeographic origin of species or not (Davis et al. 2011;Simberloff et al. 2011). A book exploring humanperceptions of the issue must therefore be welcomed.The basic goal of this book—to analyze how societiesperceive exotic species, invasions, and methods ofcontrol—is clearly important and timely. However,two aspects of this book are unfulfilling and disap-pointing. First, the authors at times manifest a strongbias in favor of people who do not perceive invasivespecies as problematic. Second, the book focuses onissues related to exotic species in Europe (especiallyinthe UK), which makes it hard to extrapolate to otherregions.The book comprises four parts and 24 articleswritten by 25 authors. Most articles are in parts twoand three, which have 8 and 13 articles respectively.Part two explains attitudes and perceptions aboutexotic, native, and invasive species, and part threepresents case studies. Part one introduces the mainproblems and questions addressed in the book, andpart four is the editors’ opinion of what should be donenext, with perhaps not enough synthesis of theprevious parts of the book. There is great variabilityin the quality and depth of the different articles in thebook. Some chapters are remarkably interesting andwell researched, while others are not as educational orthought-provoking. The compilation lacks articlesfrom South and Central America and Asia, and thereis almost no mention of these regions, despite thepresence of many research groups working withinvasive species and management plans in all three.There is also a dearth of case studies from areasoutside Europe. There are no articles on the currentperception of invasions in Australia, New Zealand, orSouth Africa, three countries that have historically ledand continue to lead inresearch on andmanagement ofinvasions. For example, there is a notable absence of afull chapter on current perceptions and treatment ofinvasive species in South Africa (e.g., the Working forWater Program), and chapters with detailed informa-tion on perceptions and management strategies outsideEurope.Remarkably, of the 25 authors 14 (56%) are basedin Europe, and 8 (one-third) in the British islands. Thisproduces a clear bias towards European perceptions,and more specifically towards species problematic inGreat Britain. Examples of this bias are several