The Backyard Beekeeper (3rd edition)
An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
Kim Flottum, photographs mostly by Kim Flottum
ISBN: 9781592539192
Nonfiction: a really exhaustive and heavily illustrated (and photographed) guide.
Read July 2015
I enjoyed the slightly snarky, tell-it-like-it-is tone that Flottum takes with her readers. She's dispensing valuable and clear-headed wisdom and history about bees and beekeeping, and clearing up a lot of misconceptions as well.
The edition is important to note, because this particular version has been written after the devastation of Colony Collapse Disorder, and even after the studies concluded that there wasn't a single cause for the terrible losses. Her guide takes into consideration the negative impact of pesticides, and has lots of advice for strengthening the hive and for maximizing the health of the bees, and for naturally (or as minimally-toxic as possible) ridding them of pests that would stress or weaken them.
Lots of good info, but I would also say that the photography and illustrations are not to be overlooked here. I am a visual learner, and having this wealth of really beautiful and very well composed, clear, illustrative photograpy to study is extremely helpful.
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