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Honeybee DemocracyDiscover the fascinating world of honeybee behavior with 'Honeybee Democracy,' a groundbreaking book by esteemed animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley. This compelling trade bound title (ISBN: 9780691147215) offers an in depth exploration of how honeybees collectively make life altering decisions through democratic processes. Learn how these remarkable insects engage in collective fact finding, lively debates, and consensus building as they face the
Discover the fascinating world of honeybee behavior with 'Honeybee Democracy,' a groundbreaking book by esteemed animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley. This compelling trade-bound title (ISBN: 9780691147215) offers an in-depth exploration of how honeybees collectively make life-altering decisions through democratic processes. Learn how these remarkable insects engage in collective fact-finding, lively debates, and consensus-building as they face the critical challenge of finding a new home when their hive becomes overcrowded. In spring and summer, witness how a swarm of bees embarks on a meticulous house-hunting expedition, evaluating potential nest sites while communicating through intricate dances. This book illustrates the parallels between the decision-making strategies of honeybees and human groups, offering invaluable insights into collective wisdom, effective communication, and decision-making processes. Published by Princeton University Press in 2011, this brand-new edition is richly illustrated, revealing decades of pioneering research on the democratic nature of bee behavior. Perfect for entomology enthusiasts, nature lovers, and anyone interested in learning from nature's own democratic systems, 'Honeybee Democracy' is an essential read that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and informed decision-making in any community. Please note, shipping for this item is free, and delivery can take up to 6 weeks. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
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ISBN: 9780691147215
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, "Honeybee Democracy" brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together - as a swirling cloud of bees - to their new home.
Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority sho
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★★★★★ 5
Extraordinary Journey
Format: Paperback
Jesse Graves conducts the reader on an intimate journey from childhood to manhood. Rooted deep in the rich red clay of East Tennessee, the narrative provides fresh insights about the ties of land and family. "Johnson's Ground" describes an annual homecoming at the family cemetery: "they never let us go, even the ones/Laid under before our births continue to make their claims." The poems express both nostalgia for the past as well as forward-looking hopes for a fresh life in the future. Daughter, Chloe often becomes a bridge from present to past as in "Water Washing Away": "A fair price for the vision of a girl/ who has warped the ancient spell of time,/ who has turned back my eyes." Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine is an enchanting read for poet and non-poet alike.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2013
★★★★★ 1
Go Read Art Smith or Charles Wright
Format: Paperback
This book is clearly the case of someone steeped in a lyric tradition, but, rather than engaging in the self-reflexive structure of the tradition, is interested in describing ad nauseum, his southern experience. While there are moments in the book that tend toward the sublime, it rests largely as self-indulgent in a way antithetical to the form it chooses.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2013
★★★★★ 5
Dr. G.
Format: Paperback
Jesse Graves (a.k.a. "Dr. G.") is one of my professors at East Tennessee State University. Not only is he a great teacher, he is a very talented poet. I would recommend his work to anyone! Anyone that does not like his work probably just failed his class. :p
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Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014
★★★★★ 5
Incredibly Prescient -- Touches On The Major Trends Of Our Times
Format: Hardcover
I was blown away by the fact that the author started writing this book a couple of years ago, before artificial intelligence was in the news, and before the topic and trend of loneliness became so prevalent. The clairvoyance is uncanny and the storyline, while fictional, is totally believable given what's going on in our world today. This is why the novel almost reads like nonfiction, but the plotline carries you forward like a fictional thriller. I audibly gasped, "Holy crap" during the plot twist at the end of the book. Truly a work of art, there is no doubt that this will be adapted for either a movie or a series.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2024
★★★★★ 4
Deeply human, yet visionary
Format: Kindle
This book takes a thoughtful approach to the notion of loneliness in the faces of AI and the many robotic companions already in development or on the market.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
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