Download or read book Listening to the Bees written by Mark Winston and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world? Through the distinct but complementary lenses of science and poetry, Mark Winston and Renée Saklikar reflect on the tension of being an individual living in a society, and about the devastation wrought by overly intensive management of agricultural and urban habitats. Listening to the Bees takes readers into the laboratory and out to the field, into the worlds of scientists and beekeepers, and to meetings where the research community intersects with government policy and business. The result is an insiders’ view of the way research is conducted—its brilliant potential and its flaws—along with the personal insights and remarkable personalities experienced over a forty-year career that parallels the rise of industrial agriculture.

Download or read book British bee keeper s guide written by Thomas William Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bees in America written by Tammy Horn and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept” (Buffalo News). The tiny, industrious honey bee has become part of popular imagination—reflected in our art, our advertising, even our language itself with such terms as queen bee and busy as a bee. Honey bees—and the values associated with them—have influenced American culture for four centuries. Bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability throughout the changes, challenges, and expansions of a highly diverse country. Bees in America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first brought bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being trained by the American military to detect bombs. Horn shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees’ societal structures shaped our ideals about work, family, community, and leisure. This book is both a fascinating read and an “excellent example of the effects agriculture has on history” (Booklist). “A wealth of worthy material.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Honey Farming written by R O B Manley and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bee Book written by Daphne More and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Success in Bee Culture as Practiced and Advised written by James [From Old Catalog] Heddon and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Practical Handbook of Bee Culture written by Sherlock Holmes and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2016 retired broadcaster Paul Ashton made an astounding discovery at a car boot sale in Sussex. He found a copy of Sherlock Holmes's Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and bought it for £2. No other copy of this legendary volume – the only book Holmes wrote – has ever come to light. The Handbook is the journal kept by Holmes from 1904 to 1912. 1904 was the year he retired from active investigation and moved to a farmhouse in East Dean. In 1912 he came out of retirement and left East Dean in order to outwit the German spy network in Britain on the eve of World War I. The journal is, of course, principally the record of his bee-keeping activities, but Holmes has also included a wealth of astonishing information – some of it highly indiscreet – about the following: – his marriage to Mrs Hudson – their social life in Sussex – his meetings with Lenin, Pablo Picasso, Edward VII, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and Sigmund Freud, among other distinguished figures – two investigations that he carried out, even though officially retired – two attempts that were made on his life – his involvement in the Jack the Ripper murders, the Dr Crippen affair, the theft of the Mona Lisa, and the Siege of Sidney Street – his correspondence with some of the famous scientists of the day – his active support of the Suffragette movement – the regular updating of his casebooks of famous criminals of the nineteenth century – a number of photographs, some taken by him and four actually showing him – the steady deterioration of his health over the period. Both the owner of the Handbook and the publisher are honoured to be able to make this unique treasure available to the general public.

Download or read book Queen rearing in England written by Frederick William Lambert Sladen and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book First Lessons in Beekeeping written by Camille Pierre Dadant and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Bee Journal and Bee Keeper s Adviser written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Lecture on Bees and Bee keeping written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The ABC of Bee Culture written by Amos Ives Root and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bee culture written by Isaac Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Bee Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Economico philosophical Discourse on Bee Culture written by Frank Vernon and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little booklet was acquired by Mrs. Daphne Perrett (More) at a bookshop in Southampton c. 1980. It had been rejected by a Bee Book dealer as 'of no interest'. Did the Latin text make it difficuIt to selI? The book, printed by the Academic Press of the University of Erfurt in 1770, appears to be a thesis presented by J. F. E. Albrecht for his doctorate examination. One of Erfurt University's earlier students was Martin Luther. The principal dedicatee, the King of Great Britain in 1770 was George III of Hanover, elector of Brunswick etc. (Albrecht describes himself as "of Stade, Hannover") Albrecht published, in 1775, in German, at Gotha, a treatise on beekeeping under the title "Zootomische und Physikalische Entdeckung von der innern Einrichtung der Bienen, besonders der Art ihrer Begattung" (Anatomical and Physical discovery of the correct management of bees as well as the manner of their generation) by J. F. E. Albrecht. What changes were made in the intervening five years I cannot judge, as I have not yet seen the later work.

Download or read book The Quest for the Perfect Hive written by Gene Kritsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year business. But the invaluable honey bee now faces severe threats from diseases, mites, pesticides, and overwork, not to mention the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes seemingly healthy bees to abandon their hives en masse, never to return. In The Quest for the Perfect Hive, entomologist Gene Kritsky offers a concise, beautifully illustrated history of beekeeping, tracing the evolution of hive design from ancient Egypt to the present. Not simply a descriptive account, the book suggests that beekeeping's long history may in fact contain clues to help beekeepers fight the decline in honey bee numbers. Kritsky guides us through the progression from early mud-based horizontal hives to the ascent of the simple straw skep (the inverted basket which has been in use for over 1,500 years), from hive design's Golden Age in Victorian England up through the present. He discusses what worked, what did not, and what we have forgotten about past hives that might help counter the menace to beekeeping today. Indeed, while we have sequenced the honey bee genome and advanced our knowledge of the insects themselves, we still keep our bees in hives that have changed little during the past century. If beekeeping is to survive, Kritsky argues, we must start inventing again. We must find the perfect hive for our times. For thousands of years, the honey bee has been a vital part of human culture. The Quest for the Perfect Hive not only offers a colorful account of this long history, but also provides a guide for ensuring its continuation into the future.

Download or read book The Bee keeper s Directory Or the Theory and Practice of Bee Culture with an Introductory Essay by O C Wheeler written by J. S. HARBISON and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: