Robert E Page

Art of the Bee

Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

This book combines biological information with sociological and philosophical frameworks to draw connections between the sociability of bees and their relation to humans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780197504147
• ISBN-10: 0197504140
• Artikelnr.: 59584905

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Page, Jr., is Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He has published more than 230 research papers and articles and authored two other books, The Spirit of the Hive (Harvard University Press, 2013) and Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding, with Harry H. Laidlaw (Wicwas Press, 1997). In 2009, he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin. In 2009, he was a Fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin. Page is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Science, Leopoldina (the German National Academyof Science), and the California Academy of Science. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Humboldt Prize, 1995), the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellowship (2018), James W. Creasman Award of Excellence at ASU (2018), and the Distinguished Emeritus Award at UCD (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Environmental Artists
Chapter 2: How Bees "Paint" Their Local Environment
Chapter 3: Environmental Engineering
Chapter 4: The Social Contract
Chapter 5: The Superorganism
Chapter 6: Reproductive Competition
Chapter 7: How to Make a Superorganism
Chapter 8: How a Superorganism Evolves
Chapter 9: The Song of the Queen
Epilogue
Resources
Index