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A World Without Bees by: Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum List Price: £9.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £6.99 You Save: £3.00 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780852650929 ISBN: 0852650922 Label: Guardian Newspapers Ltd Manufacturer: Guardian Newspapers Ltd Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: June 01, 2008 Publisher: Guardian Newspapers Ltd Studio: Guardian Newspapers Ltd Sales Rank: 1102 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Timely, persuasive and necessaryIf climate change doesn't get you, the disappearance of the honeybee will - this is the rather gloomy message of Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum's well researched and engagingly written new book on Colony Collapse Disorder - a honeybee `plague' which has already killed millions of bees worldwide. Some 90 commercial crops owe their continued existence to the pollination services provided free of charge by the honeybee so its fair to say that A World Without Bees is an important book. For it to succeed in its mission it has to put the fear of God into us without losing us to jargon. It does so admirably, taking us through the rather complicated but interesting world of honeybee health, politics and economics and delivering us to a conclusion ... Read More: Rating: - Unique, valuable, objective; a fantastically GOOD bookI read this wonderful book in one very long sitting; I really could not stop once I started. Having grown up surrounded, in my immediate family, by the 1950's acute nature-awareness of the early Soil Association days of Bob Waller and Harold Horne et al, it was like deja vu to me. The authors have been very disciplined in producing a really worthwhile book; it is almost perfectly objective, and therefore above cheap criticism. They have worked immensely hard to source a huge amount of sound material, and they have taken the trouble to understand it thoroughly before using it in their book. And the mystery at issue is no less than how terrifyingly detached from truth we are becoming, and how little we now understand our own misery and poverty ... Read More: |
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