{"product_id":"where-honeybees-thrive-stories-from-the-field-animalibus-10-animalibus-of-animals-and-cultures-9780271077413","title":"Where Honeybees Thrive Stories from the Field","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn interdisciplinary exploration of responses to honeybee decline. Features the innovative projects of beekeepers, farmers, artists, entomologists, biologists, and ecologists in the movement to save the bees and work toward a more sustainable co-existence for all creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Honeybees and humans are tightly linked, and the global demise of these keystone insects is both alarming and very bad news for the bees, humans, and numerous other nonhuman animals. Heather Swan's book—the compelling text and beautiful artwork—makes it clear that bees and humans will suffer immeasurably as we try to endure ‘the rage of inhumanity’ and political ecology that characterize the Anthropocene unless we change our behavior right now. Coexistence is mandatory and time is not on our side. \u003ci\u003eWhere Honeybees Thrive\u003c\/i\u003e is a reading experience reminiscent of Rachel Carson's classic \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Marc Bekoff,co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Animals’ Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is pure gold. To understand the life around us is perhaps the most important thing we can do for our planet, and \u003ci\u003eWhere Honeybees Thrive\u003c\/i\u003e is a huge step forward. We are too inclined to think that the tiny animals don’t matter, or that they’re dispensable because there seems to be so many of them. If you know people with that opinion, please give them this book because it can change their minds.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Life of Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhere Honeybees Thrive\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t a book for people only interested in the practice of beekeeping, nor for left-brain theorists or right-brain dreamers. It is for readers who find themselves adrift in the middle space, never entirely here nor there, searching for tranquility amid the hum.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Joe Phillips \u003ci\u003eMinding Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A beautifully written and original approach to the crucially important and still underappreciated problem of bee decline in the modern world. With a lyrical, searching style that recalls the best of Annie Dillard, Swan argues eloquently and persuasively both for the urgent need to intervene in this global crisis and for the myriad ways in which mindfulness about bees can help human beings understand themselves more deeply.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Eric C. Brown,editor of \u003ci\u003eInsect Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anyone who likes honeybees, or is even afraid of honeybees, will find this book fascinating and infectious. The author carries us on a glorious journey into the lives of honeybees and the people who keep and cherish them. The story is woven with passion and a lively blend of prose, poetry, art, and philosophy—it is part love song, part lament, part quest, and entirely engaging. Just as Rachel Carson dramatized the plight of our environment in the face of modern chemicals, Heather Swan portrays the plight of bees in light of modern agricultural practices and insecticides. \u003ci\u003eWhere Honeybees Thrive\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for lovers of nature, bees, and books.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Justin O. Schmidt,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sting of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A very special and encouraging book—a great gift for anyone with concern for bees.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBees for Development Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I suggest you kick back with a glass of mead as you savor the storytelling of master beekeeper and bee lover Heather Swan. This is a unique and worthwhile book, a new twist on honey bees that you are not likely to find anywhere else.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Stephen Buchmann \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly Review of Biology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Bees as Indicator Species\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Honey Business\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 1 Child Mind: The Art of Sibylle Peretti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Searching for the Bees of Guangxi and Sichuan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 2 The Microscopic Sublime: The Art of Rose-Lynn Fisher \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Bullroarers, Elephants, and Honeybees\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 3Making Sense of Bees: The Art of Kim Gurney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Killing Bees to Save Them: The Heartbreak of Experimental Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 4 Mourning the Dead: The Art of Sarah Hatton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Farmer, the Blueberry, and the Bee: An Unusual Love Triangle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 5 Techno Bees: The Art of Elizabeth Goluch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 For the Love of Lawns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 6 Trespass: The Art of Aganetha Dyck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Guard Bee: Storying Resilience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 7 The Art of Resistance: The Beehive Design Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 A Different Kind of Buzz: Mirth as a Form of Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery 8 Bee Renaissance: The Art of Lea Bradovich \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCredits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400796578135,"sku":"9780271077413","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/where-honeybees-thrive-stories-from-the-field-animalibus-10-animalibus-of-animals-and-cultures-9780271077413","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}