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The New Complete Guide to Beekeeping by Roger A Morse Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide will give beginners all they need to start and maintain a healthy bee colony, while experienced beekeepers will find advice on expanding into new areas of the business and how to refine their skills.<P>Subjects covered... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Honeybee: From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper by C. Marina Marchese Publisher Comments One woman's charming and personal account of abandoning the rat race to live blissfully as a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur-plus everything you'd ever want to know about bees. Ten years ago, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum Publisher Comments This book isnÆt only a guide to beekeeping or a honey cookbook; itÆs both. No other book on the market provides an in-depth review of beekeeping and what honey is good for and how to use it. Beautifully illustrated, The Backyard Beekeeper is... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey by Readicker Henderson, Publisher Comments There are around 16,000 species of bee. Only seven of these are responsible for creating the world's sweetest treat -- honey. Combining Ilona's gorgeous photography and E. Readicker-Henderson's engaging text, A Short History of the Honey Bee follows the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Beekeeper's Handbook: A Teaching Text for Beginner's to Advanced Beekeepers by Diana Sammataro Publisher Comments Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have revised and expanded their clear and comprehensive guide to cover changes in beekeeping. They discuss the crisis created by the parasitic bee mites. In less than a decade, for example, Varroa mites have... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-bee by L. L. Langstroth Publisher Comments This influential guide by "the father of modern beekeeping," originally published in 1853, constitutes the first descriptive treatise of modern bee management. Its innovations allowed people to engage in actual beekeeping, rather than simply handling bee... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Ross Conrad Publisher Comments National Review Attention, Off-the-Book-Page Coverage, Consumer Mail Campaign,... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Incomparable Honeybee & the Economics of Pollination (Rmb Manifestos) by Reese Halter Synopsis From Dr. Reese Halter comes a remarkable, concise account of the honeybees that have profoundly shaped our planet for the past 110 million years. Honeybees are the most important group of flower-visiting animals, pollinating more multi-billion-dollar... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Hardcover
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Fifty Years Among the Bees by C. C. Miller Publisher Comments Long a classic within the beekeeping community, this book is one of the greatest works on the ancient art and science of beekeeping. A practical, yet endlessly charming handbook on all aspects of this romantic, arcane pursuit, it offers advice... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beekeeping: A Practical Guide by Richard E Bonney Publisher Comments Whether you're a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Keeping Bees and Making Honey by Alison Benjamin Publisher Comments Bee-keeping isn't just for the country dweller-- hives can be found on many an urban rooftop, inner-city balcony or mounted on walls in the strangest of places. Keeping Bees and Making Honey is a comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to bee... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys (Backyard) by Kim Flottum Publisher Comments A truly lush, radiant enthusiast's guide, The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook goes beyond the scope of a cookbook to introduce to readers the literal cornucopia of honey varieties available. An intuitive follow-up to The Backyard Beekeeper, this book... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Flexible
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Beekeeping for Dummies (For Dummies) by Howland Blackiston Publisher Comments Now updated -- your guide to becoming a successful backyard beekeeper Interested in raising honey bees? This friendly, practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony.... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments How the disappearance of the worlds honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk. Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when “there was no pollination and there... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson Publisher Comments Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey: The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World by Holley Bishop Publisher Comments "Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography," writes Holley Bishop. Bees have been making this food on Earth for hundreds of millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand years... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments How the disappearance of the world's honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk. Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when there was no pollination and there would... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis Publisher Comments "We have chosen to ?ll our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." — Jonathan Swift (1667?1745) Sweetness and Light is the fascinating story of bees and honey from the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind by Stephen Buchmann Publisher Comments They work hard, are devoted to family, love sex, and know the importance of a good piece of real estate. Honey bees, and the daily workings of their close-knit colonies, are one of nature's great miracles. And they produce one of nature's greatest edible... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation by Tammy Horn Publisher Comments Honey bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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