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. You get the latest on honey bee medication & treatments harvesting & marketing your honey & the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment & economy. To bee or not to bee? -- understand the benefits of beekeeping & whether its right for you Build your first hive -- gather the right equipment obtain your bees & transfer them safely to their new home Get up-close & personal -- see how to open & close the hive inspect your bees at the right times & know what to look for Handle common problems -- from swarming to robbing to pesticide poisoning find simple solutions Understand Colony Collapse Syndrome -- learn what you can do to help save the honey bees Gear up for the golden harvest -- use the tools of the trade to extract honey store it & sell it Praise for Beekeeping For Dummies The information a beginner needs to keep bees with complete confidence." -- Kim Flottum Bee Culture Magazine "A reader-friendly guide to beekeeping for novices or beginners." -- Dewey M. Caron Professor of Entomology University of Delaware Open the book & find: The various types of honey bees & the role each plays in a colony Hands-on instruction in building a hive How to keep bees healthier & more productive Guidelines for all phases of honey production New information on raising your own queens Plenty of helpful illustrative pictures to guide you The safest ways to inspect & enjoy your bees A Beekeepers Calendar organized by climate zones" ...

The fast & easy way to start & maintain a hive Beekeeping For Dummies is a practical step-by-step beginners guide to beekeeping. It gives you plain-English guidance on everything you need to know to start your own beehive from buying the right equipment sourcing bees & locating your hive to maintaining a healthy colony & harvesting honey. Plus youll get the latest information on the causes & effects of bee disease colony collapse disorder & the impact the sudden disappearance of the honeybee has on our environment & economy. Here youll get trusted information on beekeeping in the UK specifically written to address climate buying equipment locating hives the local impact of colony collapse disorder & ways to avoid or minimise the risk to your hive seasonal beekeeping tasks local beekeeping associations & updated content on urban beekeeping. Understand the anatomy of your bees Learn techniques & tips for harvesting bottling packaging & selling honey Discover the benefits of beekeeping Learn techniques on obtaining & hiving your bees If youre a beginner beekeeper taking a beekeeping course or just have an interest in the plight of the honeybee Beekeeping For Dummies has you covered! ...

Beelzebubs Tales to His Grandson" is Gurdjieffs world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world led by the all-wise Beelzebub. Through this cosmological allegory
- rich in humour anecdote & linguistic elaboration
- Gurdjieff demonstrates a methodology for the spiritual growth of all mankind."

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Told from the viewpoint of a child whose Grandpa is a beekeeper this rhyming text offers an accessible & engaging introduction to the behaviour of bees including: where they live how honey is made & what a beekeeper does
- now in paperback! Bees play a vital role in pollinating plants & this simple book is a perfect way of discussing the interdependent relationship of insects plants & people. It is very appealing to educators & parents seeking to inspire children to appreciate nature & its fragile ecosystems. It features informative notes with helpful & interesting facts about bees beekeeping & honey. It even

Includes:: a delicious recipe for muffins! The key markets will include science museums beekeeping organizations nature parks & garden centres & stores.


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What would happen if you were to combine the culinary expertise of two connoisseurs who are specialists in their fields? Beer sommelier Ben Vinken presents 50 top Belgian beers to cheese master Michel Van Tricht who in turn pairs them with the most appropriate cheeses. Their many years of experience in beer & cheese tasting result in 50 mouthwatering combinations that make the classic wine-cheese pairing pale in comparison. All of the major styles of beer & types of cheese are represented. ' Beer & Cheese' is a book for the true bon vivant. ...

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffys first collection of new poems as Poet Laureate & the much-anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs love poems poems to the weather poems of political anger; her celebrated Last Post (written for the last surviving soldiers to fight in the First World War) showed that powerful public poetry still has a central place in our culture. There are elegies too for beloved friends & -- most movingly -- the poets own mother. As Duffys voice rises in this collection her music intensifies & every poem patterns itself into song. Woven & weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffys subject sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge -- & the reader soon begins to anticipate its appearance. In the end Duffys point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world & what is most precious & necessary for us to protect. The Bees is a work of great ecological & spiritual power & Duffys clearest affirmation yet of her belief in the poem as secular prayer as the means by which we remind ourselves what is most worthy of our attention & concern our passion & our praise. ...

Beautiful & moving poetry for the real world Jeanette Winterson Guardian Wonderful.. .a poet alert to every sound & shape of language Sunday Telegraph The Bees is Carol Ann Duffys first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs love poems poems of political anger; there are elegies too for beloved friends & -- most movingly -- the poets own mother. Woven & weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffys subject sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge. In the end Duffys point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world & what is most precious & necessary for us to protect. The Bees at once intimate & public is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets. Swooningly glorious The Times Indisputably her best volume Sunday Times Duffy is magnificent grounded heartfelt dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself Scotsman ...

An intriguing introduction to the fascinating world of bees & wasps with a specially written easy-to-read text amazing & extraordinary photographs & step-by-step visual explanations. A slim & unintimidating book which belies its contents
- a wealth of information much of which will be new even to adults.
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From the Belgian coast across the fields of Flanders over the valley of the Somme & down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War
- Ypres Arras Cambrai Amiens St. Quentin Mons Le Cateau Reims Verdun & St. Mihiel
- are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes each clearly shown on a Michelin map. Every significant feature is described in detail. Indispensable for anyone contemplating a tour of the battlefields in Belgium & France this book combines the years of knowledge travel & research of its author Rose Coombs who worked at the Imperial War Museum in London for nearly forty years. Since her death in 1991 After the Battle's" editor Karel Margry has travelled every route checking & revising the text where necessary as well as re-photographing every memorial. Many new ones have been added including the new cemetery at Fromelles inaugurated in July 2010 yet we have striven to keep true to the flavour of Rose's original concept...before endeavours fade."

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Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits endless tests drugs with excruciating side-effects Tessa compiles a list. Its her To Do Before I Die list. & number one is sex. Released from the constraints of normal life Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessas feelings her relationships with her father & brother her estranged mother her best friend her new boyfriend all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessas time finally runs out. Before I Die" is a brilliantly-crafted novel heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming. It will take you to the very edge." ...