Author: Barry Siskind Publisher: [Etobicoke, Ont.] : J. Wiley & Sons Canada ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 170
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In theory, bumblebees should not be able to fly, but they do. Because they have to. But people, no matter how smart or how skilled they might be, do not always get off the ground. We are all born with common sense, but we don’t always—or often—use it. Must we drift without direction the rest of our lives? Are we doomed if we seem incapable of using our common sense? No, says bestselling author and professional speaker Barry Siskind. In Bumblebees Can’t Fly, he shows you how to develop and follow his Seven Strategies of Common Sense. After mastering these simple yet shrewd strategies, you will begin to make more confident decisions, improve your foresight, listen to the wisdom already deep within you—and fly, like the bumblebees!
Author: Robert Cormier Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0307834271 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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They are all going to die. All of the patients at the Complex are terminal, with no hope of reprieve. But they’ve volunteered to come here, to this experimental clinic to allow themselves to be test subjects. Still, they’re all going to die. All except Barney. Barney cannot remember much about his life before the Complex, but he knows that he’s there as a control. To see how the drugs being tested will affect a nonterminal patient. And then they start testing a new drug on him . . . one that will affect his memory. And Barney starts to remember things he doesn’t want to remember.
Author: Barry Siskind Publisher: ISBN: 9780773733008 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 136
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In theory, bumblebees should not be able to fly, but they do. Because they have to. But people, no matter how smart or how skilled they might be, do not always get off the ground. We are all born with common sense, but we don't always--or often--use it. Must we drift without direction the rest of our lives? Are we doomed if we seem incapable of using our common sense? No, says bestselling author and professional speaker Barry Siskind. In Bumblebees Can't Fly, he shows you how to develop and follow his Seven Strategies of Common Sense. After mastering these simple yet shrewd strategies, you will begin to make more confident decisions, improve your foresight, listen to the wisdom already deep within you--and fly, like the bumblebees!
Author: Craig Smith Publisher: Scholastic ISBN: 1407198017 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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From the bestselling author and illustrator behind the million-copy THE WONKY DONKEY book comes WILLBEE THE BUMBLEBEE, a catchy rhyme with endearing illustrations that will leave you buzzing!"With his new jersey on, he got back his hum, all his bits were warmed up... even his bum!"Willbee the bumblebee is so embarrassed when he realises that his stripy jumper has caught on a rose thorn and completely unravelled, showing his bare bum! With help from Monica the butterfly and Steve the spider, Willbee recovers his jumper and is back to buzzing around the garden in no time.
Author: Thomas D. Seeley Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 140083595X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 283
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How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process 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 should be counted on for a dependable resolution. An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.
Author: Elsie Larson Publisher: Master Books ISBN: 9780890511770 Category : Bumblebees Languages : en Pages : 0
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An encouraging story celebrating the diversity of God's creation. Includes parent/teacher activity guide and fascinating science facts.
Author: Dave Goulson Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198526070 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 260
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Bumblebees are undergoing a widespread decline, but this has not yet caught the attention of the general public to the same extent as, for example, the plight of rare butterflies or birds. This title attempts to draw attention to the importance of conserving dwindling bumblebee populations.
Author: May R. Berenbaum Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674053567 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 209
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Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books—at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the Phylum Arthropoda. In The Earwig’s Tail, entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world. Berenbaum’s compendium of tales is an alphabetical tour of modern myths that humorously illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees, ear-boring earwigs, and libido-enhancing Spanish flies. She tracks down the germ of scientific truth that inspires each insect urban legend and shares some wild biological lessons, which, because of the amazing nature of the insect world, can be more fantastic than even the mythic misperceptions.
Author: R. Klamm Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595302084 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 102
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"No one knew I could hardly see until I was eight years old, not even me! Then my second grade teacher caught me cheating on flash cards. Even eyeglasses, with lenses thick as Coke bottle bottoms, still left me legally blind." "Friends ran off and I could not see to follow. My father was chronically angry, Mother turned out not to be the saint I imagined. Only magic and an enduring optimism saved me from a desperately twisted sense of identity and suicide." Continuing with humor and optimism, R. W. (Bob) Klamm reveals secrets of the magic arts that helped him separate fact from fiction. He includes many delightful stories of his experience as a blind man performing magic, attending college, teaching high school, working in radio/TV, and raising two caring and productive children. "Come fly with me. I have included some easy magic tricks. You can do them for family and friends."
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