This detailed how-to book is written by a noted Canadian agricultural scholar and bee keeper, who compiled the information in this book for his students after years of academic teaching. This is a serious beekeeping textbook, filled with practical how-to information that covers just about every aspect of bee keeping, complete with lots of photographs, both color and black and white. If you were going to take a serious University course in beekeeping, this is the type of textbook you would expect.