Bee time : lessons from the hive / Mark L. Winston

By: Winston, Mark L [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback editionDescription: 283 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674970853; 9780674970854Subject(s): Bees -- Social aspects | Bees -- Behavior | Honeybee | Bee cultureDDC classification: 638/.1 | 595.799 LOC classification: SF523.3 | .W547 2016QL563 | .W547 2016
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 from the hive -- Epilogue: Walking out of the apiary.
Summary: Bee time presents Mark Winston's reflections on three decades spent studying bees, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world.--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 247-261) and index.

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 from the hive -- Epilogue: Walking out of the apiary.

Bee time presents Mark Winston's reflections on three decades spent studying bees, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world.--Publisher description.

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