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A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

10 best books like A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply (Michael Schacker): Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem, Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World, Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet, Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History, Life in the Undergrowth, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
AuthorWilliam Stolzenburg
ISBN1596912995
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.

It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and flying...
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684836262
From the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo comes a collection of essays in which various weird and wonderful aspects of nature are examined. From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures...
The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
AuthorJon R. Luoma
Luoma writes about what “long-term, large-scale, interdisciplinary ecological studies” can tell us about forests. He focuses on the teams that have worked at the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon. Fascinating information on how nutrients are extracted and cycle through the plants, fungi,...
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World
AuthorHolley Bishop
ISBN0743250222
Holley Bishop loves bees. No, more than that: she idolizes them. She marvels at their native abilities and the momentous role these misunderstood and unjustly feared creatures have played in the development of human history. And with her book, Robbing the Bees, she succeeds in making the reader love...
Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet
AuthorSusan Brackney
ISBN0399534962
A fascinating guided tour through the history, folklore, and function of the endangered honeybee.

Featured recently in major national news stories because they are disappearing at an alarming rate, bees are the unsung-and absolutely essential- heroes of the food chain. Now they get their...
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
AuthorRowan Jacobsen
ISBN1596915374
How the disappearance of the world's honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk.

Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when "there was no pollination and there would be no fruit." The fruitless fall nearly...
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
AuthorTammy Horn
ISBN0813191637
Honey bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language....
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
AuthorDavid Beerling
ISBN0192806025
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2 C or 8 C over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking...
Life in the Undergrowth
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0691127034
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.


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An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
AuthorAnders Halverson
ISBN0300140878
Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artificially...
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution
AuthorDevra Davis
ISBN0465015220
In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from...
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
AuthorTheo Colborn
ISBN0452274141
"A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth."--former vice president Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth

Our Stolen Future examines the ways that certain synthetic chemicals interfere with hormonal...
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
AuthorJoan Roughgarden
ISBN0520240731
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible,...
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
AuthorBernie Krause
ISBN0316086878
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where...
Field Notes on Science & Nature
AuthorMichael R. Canfield
ISBN0674057570
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

What...
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
AuthorAlan Burdick
ISBN0374219737
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
AuthorWilliam Bryant Logan
"You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar."


John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work,...
Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden
AuthorEllen Sandbeck
ISBN0767909208
A witty, whimsical gardening primer for anyone who wants to tend their patch of earth with a truly green thumb.

A garden can either bring you bliss or drive you insane, but organic landscape gardener Ellen Sandbeck has spent a lifetime discovering creative, effective techniques for growing...
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476683
"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so...
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
AuthorRoss Conrad
ISBN1933392088
From the land of Vermont (home to Bill McKibben, Bernie Sanders, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, as well as the annual "Slow Living" event Strolling of the Heifers), comes Ross Conrad, beekeeper, columnist (for Bee Culture), and advocate for natural and organic beekeeping.

His book...
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
AuthorBert Hölldobler
ISBN0393067041
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research...
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
AuthorCharles Clover
Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience. Or can we?

In this vivid, eye-opening...
Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health
AuthorLes Crowder
ISBN1603584617
In recent years beekeepers have had to face tremendous challenges, from pests such as varroa and tracheal mites and from the mysterious but even more devastating phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Yet in backyards and on rooftops all over the world, bees are being raised successfully,...
Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art
AuthorHarry W. Greene
ISBN0520232755
"This book is an immediate classic."
—Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall

"Achingly beautiful. . . . Greene succeeds in illuminating the world as a place of beauty, harmony, and danger, deeply interconnected and worthy of cherishing and preserving." —Starred Review, Publisher's...
Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture
AuthorDave Jacke
ISBN1931498792
Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make...
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