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From Where I Sit : Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science
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From Where I Sit : Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science Paperback - 1998

by Winston, Mark L

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  • Title From Where I Sit : Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science
  • Author Winston, Mark L
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-06-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4227735-6
  • ISBN 9780801484780 / 0801484782
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.51 x 0.49 in (21.67 x 14.00 x 1.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Honeybee, Bee culture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-41016
  • Dewey Decimal Code 638.1

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From the publisher

A scientist before he was a beekeeper, Mark L. Winston found in his new hobby a paradigm for understanding the role science should play in society. In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee Culture, the leading professional journal, Winston uses beekeeping as a starting point to discuss broader issues, such as how agriculture functions under increasingly complex social and environmental restraints, how scientists grapple with issues of accountability, and how people struggle to maintain contact with the natural world. Winston's reflections on bees, beekeeping, and science cover a period of tumultuous change in North America, a time when new parasites, reduced research funding, and changing economic conditions have disrupted the livelihoods of bee farmers."Managed honeybees in the city provide a major public service by pollinating gardens, fruit trees, and berry bushes, and should be encouraged rather than legislated out of existence. Our cities, groomed and cosmopolitan as they appear, still obey the basic rules of nature, and our gardens and yards are no exception. Homegrown squashes, apple trees, raspberries, peas, beans, and other garden crops require bees to move the pollen from one flower to another, no matter how urbanized or sophisticated the neighborhood."

About the author

Mark L. Winston is Professor of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of three books, most recently Nature Wars: People vs. Pests. Eva Crane is a former director of the International Bee Research Association. Her books include The Archaeology of Beekeeping and Bees and Beekeeping from Cornell.

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