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Title: Bees of the World (Of the World Series) by Christopher O'Toole, Anthony Raw ISBN: 0-8160-1992-4 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: good information, but. . . .
Comment: I like this book a fair amount. It's an overview of the bees of the world, with good no nonsense information about miners, masons, carpenters, and so on as well as the more social bees. I especially loved their effective use of diagrams for the shapes of various bees' nests.
The thing I didn't like was their intrusive and oftentimes nonsensical (and certainly slavish) adherence to the nonsensical notion that the natural world is based on strict competition. They bend over backwards to try to show that the activities of all bees are based on competition, and they strain to use crazy metaphors to support this view. Instead of perceiving bees and flowers as a wonderful example of the way that different members of natural communities work together for the benefit of the larger community, they actually resort to citing Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations as bee/plant interactions being a form of selfish capitalism!!![.] It's nonsense.
One other problem, and this is one reason I hate science. I'll just give a quote. Speaking of a bee being driven to extinction by logging, they say, "Recent reports of forestry activities on Bacan give rise to concern that the bee might become extinct before yielding up the secrets of its biology." If the authors weren't "free market scientists" they would be ashamed of this statement. It implies: Who cares if the creature goes extinct for its own sake? We just need to mine the knowledge before it does.
Once again, all this said, the book does provide some good information.
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Title: The Forgotten Pollinators by Stephen L. Buchmann, Gary Paul Nabhan, Paul Mirocha ISBN: 1559633530 Publisher: Shearwater Books Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Honey Bee (Scientific American Library, No 25) by James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould ISBN: 0716750236 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William Longgood, Pamela Johnson, William Longwood, Pam Johnson ISBN: 0393305287 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Natural History of Bumblebees: A Sourcebook of Investigations by Carol Ann Kearns, James D. Thomson ISBN: 0870816217 Publisher: University Press of Colorado Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Natural History of Pollination by Michael Proctor, Peter Yeo, Andrew Lack, Peter Yea ISBN: 0881923532 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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