From Where I Sit : : Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science / / Mark L. Winston.
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 broad...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One.Thinking About Bees
- 1. Bees In The City
- 2. Feral Bees
- 3. Feral Bees II
- 4. Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
- 5. Bee Bruins
- 6. Division Of Labor
- 7. Bee Metaphysics And Mr. Spook
- Part Two.In Sickness And In Health
- 8. Hybrid Bees
- 9. Let'S Do Lunch
- 10. Pesticide Resistance
- 11. Billions Of Pounds
- 12. Semiochemicals And Varroa
- 13. Killer Bee Killers
- 14. Bee Nutrition: A Dead Science?
- 15. Tracheal Mite Research: The Next Generation
- 16. Mite Load
- 17. Beekeeping And Snake Oil
- 18. Bee Flu
- Part Three Industry Politics
- 19. Finding Dirty Honey
- 20. Border Closure
- 21. Government, Queens, And Brother Adam
- 22. Positions
- Part Four .Life In The Research Lane
- 23. Payback Time
- 24. The Bottom Line
- 25. Peer Review
- 26. Behavioral Ecology
- 27. Things I'll Never See
- 28. Recombined Bees
- 29. The Business Of Research
- 30. How Do We Know That?
- 31. Consulting