Bee Wilson 2005 308 pages Soft cover (W610) This book is an exploration of the ‘magical’ relationship between honey bees and humans. The honey bee has always been recognised as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, and even terrifying. Bee Wilson comments in her introduction that when reading books on political theory from centuries ago and also from writers including Aristotle and Shakespeare, she constantly found the honey bee community used as a model for human society. Finding this both ‘interesting and odd’, her desire to find out more culminated in this book. Although not a beekeeper the long list of ‘bee’ names in the acknowledgements shows how much Ms Wilson pursued her interest to produce this interesting book of fascinating facts. Nevertheless we are disappointed that Bees for Development is omitted from the list of those consulted - especially when we are referred to briefly in chapter 6 and summarised with the words “there is a kind of enduring zeal to these people, with their good works”.