The fable of the Bees
Author | : Bernard de Mandeville |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1724 |
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Author | : Bernard de Mandeville |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1724 |
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Author | : Bernard Mandeville |
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Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : Charity-schools |
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Author | : Bernard Mandeville |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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"The Fable of The Bees" is a book by Bernard Mandeville. It consists of"The Grumbling Hive"; and an essay, "An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue". In "The Grumbling Hive", the author describes a bee community that thrives until the bees decide to live by honesty and virtue. As they abandon their desire for personal gain, the economy of their hive collapses, and they go on to live simple, "virtuous" lives in a hollow tree. Mandeville implied that people were hypocrites for espousing rigorous ideas about virtue and vice while they failed to act according to those beliefs in their private lives. The Fable influenced ideas about the division of labour and the free market (laissez-faire), and the philosophy of utilitarianism was advanced as Mandeville's critics, in defending their views of virtue, also altered them. His work influenced Scottish Enlightenment thinkers such as Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith.
Author | : Francis Hutcheson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1750 |
Genre | : Laughter |
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Author | : Gerald Kelley |
Publisher | : Weigl Publishers |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1791107354 |
Benedict has a pretty sweet life for a bear. Every morning the bees leave a jar of honey on his doorstep, and every day he has honey for breakfast and honey in his tea. It’s an important part of his day. But all that changes when the bees go on strike.
Author | : Bernard Mandeville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1729 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : John Penberthy |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781402747656 |
Peppered with aphorisms and laced with wit and humour, this text is a clever, inspirational allegory about living life to its fullest.
Author | : Maribeth Boelts |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1536216666 |
The author of Those Shoes and an award-winning illustrator team up for the story of a girl who tries to overcome her fear of bees to see how amazing they are. Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia’s dad is a beekeeper. Her dad says that the world needs bees and that’s why they are beekeepers. But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia — unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is. Against a sunny city setting, author Maribeth Boelts and illustrator Angela Dominguez depict Kaia’s small courageous steps — and her tiny insect neighbors — with great empathy and charm. Buzzing with storytime potential, Kaia and the Bees is an honest and relatable tale about bravery and compassion, as well as the importance of bees to our world.
Author | : Erick Setiawan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2009-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416598480 |
Erick Setiawan's richly atmospheric debut is a beautiful, engrossing fable of three generations of women in two families; their destructive jealousies, their loves and losses, their sacrifices and deeply rooted deceptions, and their triumphs. Of Bees and Mist is a fable of one woman's determination to overcome the haunting magic that is created by the people she loves and the oppressive secrets behind their broken lives. Raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, Meridia spends her childhood feeling neglected and invisible. Every evening her father vanishes inside a blue mist without so much as an explanation, and her mother spends her days beheading cauliflowers in the kitchen. At sixteen, desperate to escape, Meridia marries a tenderhearted young man. Little does she suspect that his family is harboring secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden. There are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other. And there is Eva, the formidable matriarch whose grievances swarm the air like an army of bees—the wickedest mother-in-law imaginable. Erick Setiawan takes Meridia on a tumultuous ride of hope and heartbreak as she struggles to keep her young family together and discovers long-kept secrets about her own past as well as the shocking truths about her husband's family.
Author | : Thomas D. Seeley |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2010-09-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 140083595X |
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.