Animals category: 23627 books
by Cynthia Willett
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral...
Babylon's Ark
The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and uncontrolled looting had killed nearly all the animals...
by Warren Ackhurst
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Warren Ackhurst From a long line of storytellers, Warren honed his skills teaching Elementary school. Born and educated in Zimbabwe, he has lived in South Africa, England and now resides in Vancouver, Canada. His love of animals and Africa have inspired this book Janice Lazzarich Janice was born and...
Part of the Pride
My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The film showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, crouching down at their...
Mercy
The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Only 150 years ago, most animals in America were subject to horrific treatment. They needed a champion to protect them from abject cruelty, and that person was Henry Bergh. After witnessing the beating of a horse in the streets of New York and attending a bullfight in Spain, Bergh found his calling....
Animalia Americana
Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
From Thoreau’s renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of his encounters with the wild and domestic animals of Concord Many of the most vivid writings in the renowned Journal of Henry David Thoreau concern creatures he came upon when rambling the fields, forests,...
Animal Rights
A Historical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical...
by Perry Ritthaler
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Poetry and Rhymes - Over 50 Beautiful Full Color Illustrations That Will Serenade the Sole of the Caring-Valiant and selfless men and women have fought and died for our country for centuries – and they continue to fight for us today. This book of poetry and rhymes exemplifies Perry Ritthaler thoughts...
Saving Molly
A Research Veterinarian's Choices—for the Love of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1998
How rescuing a puppy led a veterinarian to rethink the ethics of his work: “Will surely interest everyone who cares about animal welfare and animal rights” (Library Journal).
The puppy was on the verge of death when James Mahoney found her. Molly was not the first dying animal the research...
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the...
by John Davidson, Natalia Asfar
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Bestselling author John Davidson presents "Dolphins - For Kids – Amazing Animal Books For Young Readers". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with Dolphins. This is one of over 30 books in the Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers Series.The series...
How Long Can a Fly Fly?
175 Answers to Possible and Impossible Questions about Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Get to know more than the usual facts and stats about animals, both familiar and rare! How Long Can a Fly Fly? will answer all your animal questions, along with plenty more you’ve never even thought to ask. This fun and educational book, good for all ages, is filled with fascinating information...
by Gordon Grice
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Whether at a zoo, on a camping trip, or under our bedsheets, we are surrounded by animals. While most are perfectly harmless, it's the magnificent exceptions that populate The Book of Deadly Animals. Award-winning writer Gordon Grice takes readers on a tour of the animal kingdom—from grizzly bears...