Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0674368398
ISBN 13
9780674368392
Category
630-649 Agriculture, Home & Family Living
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
296
Subject
Bee culture -- Social aspects. Honeybee -- Social aspects. Honeybee -- Behavior.
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Abstract
Bee Time presents Winston's reflections on three decades spent studying these creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world. Like us, honeybees represent a pinnacle of animal sociality. How they submerge individual needs into the colony collective provides a lens through which to ponder human so
Description
Named Person: Biene
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark L Winston
ISBN: 9780674368392 0674368398
OCLC Number: 875999934
Awards: Winner of Governor General's Literary Awards 2015
Description: 283 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Prologue: Walking into the apiary --
Beginning with bees --
Honey --
Killer bees --
A thousand little cuts --
Valuing nature --
Bees in the city --
There's something bigger than Phil --
Art and culture --
Being social --
Conversing --
Lessons learned from the hive --
Epilogue: Walking out of the apiary.
Responsibility: Mark L. Winston.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark L Winston
ISBN: 9780674368392 0674368398
OCLC Number: 875999934
Awards: Winner of Governor General's Literary Awards 2015
Description: 283 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Prologue: Walking into the apiary --
Beginning with bees --
Honey --
Killer bees --
A thousand little cuts --
Valuing nature --
Bees in the city --
There's something bigger than Phil --
Art and culture --
Being social --
Conversing --
Lessons learned from the hive --
Epilogue: Walking out of the apiary.
Responsibility: Mark L. Winston.
Number of Copies
1
