Bookshelf

Batik for artists and quilters

Eloise Piper

2001. 143 pages. Hardback. Available from Bees for Development. Price £20.90. Order code P180

Beeswax is used in the craft of batik, and this beautiful book shows just how much can be achieved. The author describes how she first became fascinated by the ancient craft that is now re-emerging as a fine art medium.

The book gives all the information needed to get started in batik, and provides plenty of stimulus to begin: it is richly illustrated with colour photographs of batik work. The works of many artists are shown along with step-by-step photo sequences of waxing and dyeing methods.

Creative batik

Rosi Robinson

2001. 96 pages. Soft cover. Available from Bees for Development. Price £11.95. Order code R300

Another excellent new book that shows how versatile batik can be. It emphasises that you do stunning results, because the wax, dyes and fabric help to achieve this.

As with Batik-for Artists and and Quilters this book tells the history of batik, describes the materials needed, shows how to do it with step-by-step photographs and provides dozens of colour pictures of beautiful batik work.

Candle making

Lynne Garner

2001.112 pages. Hardback. Available from Bees for Development. Price £16.80. Order code GO50

The first chapter of this practical guide is a brief history of candle making, which explains that since they were first produced beeswax candles have always been in demand because of their excellent burning qualities and the delightful aroma as they burn.

Further chapters explain the materials required for candle making, the tools of the trade, and the steps to take to ensure a high quality product.

Chapters for when you become more experienced include recipes for making a “wedding candle a birthday ice cream candle” and “fish in a bowl” candle.

Hints and tips as well as safety advice are clearly laid out throughout the chapters and colour photographs illustrate every page.

The miracle of flight

Stephen Dalton. 2001. 184 pages. Hardback. Published by Merrell Publishers Ltd Available from Bees for Development. Price £25. Order code DLO5

Before an insect can take to its wings, its body temperature must be sufficiently high: usually flight muscles have to be at least 24°C.

Yet bumblebees fly at temperatures near to freezing by generating metabolic heat before take-off. This is achieved by uncoupling the flight muscles from the wings and vibrating and wake up without moving the wings at all.

This book is full of similar fascinating information explaining how animals (beginning with insects) evolved wings and how humans too have now been able to follow them into the air.

Stephen Dalton’s art of high-speed photography has been the key to unlocking many secrets of insect, bird and bat flight. His astonishing pictures fill this amazing book.

Rearing of carpenter bees for pollination in agricultural areas

Breno M Freitas, José H de Oliveira-Filho

2001. 103 pages. Text In Portuguese. Available from Bees for Development. price £18. Order code F420

This book explains the life history of carpenter bees, their role as pollinators of passion fruit and other plant species and rearing these bees for

A dictionary of scientific and practical beekeeping Um dicionario para a apicultura pratica e cientifica

Robert B Gulliford

2001. 520 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development price £25.70 Order code G400

A substantial dictionary giving definitions of terms

related to beekeeping. The 3001+ definitions vary in length from one sentence to over one page for some complex issues such as ‘queen bee appraisal’ or ‘honey analysis’. The author studied many local with beekeepers and scientific workers before deciding upon the final version of the terms and definitions listed in the dictionary. A useful opportunity to learn the beekeeping industries’ terminology.

Publications of Vietnam Bee Research 1990- 1999

Compiled by Dinh Quyet Tam, Nguyen Van Niem, Le Quant Trung, Tran Thi Dau, Phung Huu Chinh, Le Tu Long.

2000. 140 pages. Soft cover. Available from Bee Research and Development Center, Langha, Dongda, Hanoi, Vietnam. E-mail qtam@netnam.org.vn

The great diversity of honeybees in Asia, together with the effect of Asian mite species on Apis mellifera, provide plenty of work for researchers. Since 1980 Vietnamese and foreign scientists have completed much work in collaboration with the Bee Research and Development Center in Hanoi, Vietnam. This book brings together 20 papers published originally in national and international journals, and covers many different aspects of pure and applied research.

(CD ROM)

Life of bees

Breno M Freitas

1999. Text in Portuguese Available from Bees for Development. Price £33. Order code VID21

The biology, nesting and reproductive behaviour, rearing and keeping of different species of bees including honeybees, stingless bees, solitary bees, bumblebees, and carpenter bees.). There are lists of 60 stingless bee species found in Brazil and Brazilian bee flora and drawings, tables and more than 450 beautiful colour pictures. Information can be printed for courses and presentations.

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