Global Hive

Author: Horst Kornberger
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782505784
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
In a world all too familiar with environmental disasters, Horst Kornberger argues that the bee crisis is a more significant problem than deforestation, pollution and global warming put together, as it points to the causes behind all these. Global Hive is a rallying cry for a new understanding of world ecology. More than a study of bees, this book offers both an entirely new way of thinking about the bee crisis and its causes, and a way to use the crisis to explore wider social and ecological issues. Kornberger challenges the dominant scientific worldview that reduces everything to minute detail and fails to see the larger holistic picture. He argues that we urgently need to start thinking about ecology in a different way – by developing a new science which draws on empathy and imagination – if we want to mend our relationship with the natural world. From this perspective, the worldwide threat of the bee crisis becomes a starting point for global change. Global Hive is a thought-provoking treatise on what colony collapse teaches us about our society, our choices and how we can build a more sustainable world.

Global Hive

Author: Horst Kornberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980293135
Category : Bee culture
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
In this book I explore the reasons behind the bee crisis and suggest a new way of thinking about it. My aim is to establish communication between different ways of seeing the world. I believe that the gap that separates these ways of seeing is the same into which species after species disappear.

Adversary

Author: Janet Edwards
Publisher: Wallam-Crane Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
Being a telepath means being a warrior. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. As her city celebrates the start of a New Year, one of the other telepaths must stop work to have lifesaving surgery. Amber is already worried how she and her unit will cope with the increased workload, but then she finds herself facing twin enemies as well. Inside her city, Keith takes advantage of his increasingly powerful position as one of only four working telepaths. Outside her city, Hive Genex sends the devious Adversary Aura to lead their defence against charges of attempting to kidnap Amber. (Cover depicts Adversary Aura of Hive Genex.)

Manuka

Author: Cliff Van Eaton
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
ISBN: 1775592006
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most peculiar honey. It was much darker than the clover honey everyone put on their toast in the morning, and it tasted very different. In fact, the honey was a problem: it was hard to get out of the combs, and even harder for beekeepers to sell. Today that honey, manuka from New Zealand, is known around the world. It fetches high prices, and beekeepers do everything in their power to produce as much of it as possible. Wound dressings containing manuka honey are used in leading hospitals, and it has saved the lives of patients infected with disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to standard antibiotic drugs. In so doing it has forced the medical profession to rethink its position on the therapeutic properties of natural products. This book chronicles the remarkable ‘rags-to-riches’ story of manuka honey, as seen through the eyes of a New Zealand beekeeping specialist who watched it unfold from the very beginning. It’s a great tale of science, in which an inquisitive university lecturer found something totally unexpected in a product everyone had written off. It’s also an entertaining account of the way that seemingly simple discovery caught the international media’s attention, helping enterprising New Zealanders to develop manuka honey-based products and take them all around the globe. But above all else it’s a story of hope for the future, sounding a note of optimism in a world that for good reason feels saddened and sometimes even afraid about the future of the special relationship we humans have always had with those marvellous creatures, the honey bees.

Hive Mind

Author: Garett Jones
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804797056
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Over the last few decades, economists and psychologists have quietly documented the many ways in which a person's IQ matters. But, research suggests that a nation's IQ matters so much more. As Garett Jones argues in Hive Mind, modest differences in national IQ can explain most cross-country inequalities. Whereas IQ scores do a moderately good job of predicting individual wages, information processing power, and brain size, a country's average score is a much stronger bellwether of its overall prosperity. Drawing on an expansive array of research from psychology, economics, management, and political science, Jones argues that intelligence and cognitive skill are significantly more important on a national level than on an individual one because they have "positive spillovers." On average, people who do better on standardized tests are more patient, more cooperative, and have better memories. As a result, these qualities—and others necessary to take on the complexity of a modern economy—become more prevalent in a society as national test scores rise. What's more, when we are surrounded by slightly more patient, informed, and cooperative neighbors we take on these qualities a bit more ourselves. In other words, the worker bees in every nation create a "hive mind" with a power all its own. Once the hive is established, each individual has only a tiny impact on his or her own life. Jones makes the case that, through better nutrition and schooling, we can raise IQ, thereby fostering higher savings rates, more productive teams, and more effective bureaucracies. After demonstrating how test scores that matter little for individuals can mean a world of difference for nations, the book leaves readers with policy-oriented conclusions and hopeful speculation: Whether we lift up the bottom through changing the nature of work, institutional improvements, or freer immigration, it is possible that this period of massive global inequality will be a short season by the standards of human history if we raise our global IQ.

Gastronomie!

Author: E. Thomas Hughes
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593730291
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Written by the founders of The Food Museum in Albuquerque, NM, this book explores the fascinating regional ingredients that make up the heritage of French food.

Decentralised Education

Author: Theo Dounas
Publisher: Machine Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
In this essay, a new, global architecture school is imagined by Theo Dounas. The academic and architect describes a decentralised network of institutions, free from the constraints of the past, communicating via new technology which can encode and regulate new relationships of information. An education system of the future.

Information Services Today

Author: Sandra Hirsh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144223959X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515

Book Description
This essential overview of what it means to be a library and information professional today provides a broad overview of the transformation of libraries as information organizations, why these organizations are more important today than ever before, the technological influence on how we provide information resources and services in today’s digital and global environment, and the various career opportunities available for information professionals. The book begins with a historical overview of libraries and their transformation as information and technology hubs within their communities. It also covers the various specializations within the field emphasizing the exciting yet complex roles and opportunities for information professionals. With that foundation in place, it presents how libraries serve different kinds of communities, highlighting the unique needs of users across all ages and how libraries fulfill those needs through a variety of services, and addresses key issues facing information organizations as they meet user needs in the Digital Age. The book then concludes with career management strategies to guide library and information science professionals in building not only vibrant careers but vibrant information organizations for the future as well.

Human Resource Development

Author: Francesco Sofo
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781875680740
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
An examination of the field of human resource development with a focus on Australia while maintaining an awareness of the international scene. The book shows how this development can help people, groups, teams, departments, public and private organizations develop their full potential.

THE SEEDERS

Author: Elena Danaan
Publisher: Elena Danaan
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description
The Seeders is a must-read book that is full of shock and awe moments that awakens the reader to the true extent of our suppressed history and the incredible future that lies before us as a fully liberated species destined to take our rightful place in the galactic community -Michael Salla, Ph.D. This looks like a book, but in truth its an historical document. It takes Humanity on an incredible journey from the beginning of advanced soul groups wondering the universe looking for a cause to the liberation and acknowledging of a humanity blessed and suppressed throughout the ages. It will be difficult to put this book down. -Alex Collier, Andromedan Contactee. Extraterrestrial Contactee, Archaeologist, Druid, Shaman and Best-Selling Author Elena Danaan takes us on a journey to meet the Intergalactic Confederation, the legendary Pa-Taal and the mysterious Nine, troughout an epic quest for the true history of humans of Terra.