Animals Rights category: 355 books
The Lucky Ones
My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Jonathan Safran Foer meets Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason in a poignant, provocative memoir of survival, compassion, and awakening to the reality of our food system.
Jenny Brown was just ten years old when she lost a leg to bone cancer. Throughout the ordeal, her constant companion was a cat named...
Animal Cities
Beastly Urban Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals in the urban context. Considering animals in urban settings is now a firmly established area of study and this book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted. Having an...
The Ten Trusts
What We Must Do to Care for The Animals We Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
World-renowned behavioral scientists Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff have set forth ten trusts that we must honor as custodians of the planet. They argue passionately and persuasively that if we put these trusts to work in our lives, the earth and all its inhabitants will be able to live together harmoniously....
Sailing with Noah
Stories from the World of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Written by the president of the nation’s number-one zoo, Sailing with Noah is an intensely personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. Jeffrey P. Bonner, who was trained as an anthropologist and came to the zoo world quite by accident, shares some of the most compelling stories ever told about...
The Animal Manifesto
Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the world’s leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and “expanding our compassion footprint.” He demonstrates that animals experience a rich range...
Making Kind Choices
Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Choosing a compassionate lifestyle that makes you feel good and positively impacts on the environment and on animals has never been easier. In this practical and accessible handbook, loaded with resources for all products that are mentioned, Ingrid Newkirk presents fabulous options that will not only...
Marineland
Inside the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, the red eyes of a harbour seal named Larry stared out from behind bars on the front page of the Toronto Star, in the first story of the series Inside Marineland. Larry immediately went viral as readers worried about his welfare and that of other animals at the tourist attraction....
Compassionate Cuisine
125 Plant-Based Recipes from Our Vegan Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Selected as one of PETA's must-have vegan cookbooks of 2019! Vegan recipes and heartwarming stories for animal lovers, from the Catskill Animal Sanctuary.
Add love and stir! Written with love and authenticity, Compassionate Cuisine tells the story of one of the country’s oldest and most respected...
Ninety-Five
Meeting America's Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Ninety-Five is a delightful and engaging anthology of writing and photography by rescuers, caregivers, and those who love the animals. Each animal is portrayed with high quality, full-color photographs and a short story that demonstrate the animal's personality, depth, emotions, quirks, relationships,...
by Magnus Vinding
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
The aim of this book is to examine our speciesism. This examination consists of two separate parts, where the first part shows why speciesism is unjustifiable, and hence why it must be rejected, while the second part examines the practical implications of this rejection. This latter examination is...
Critical Animal and Media Studies
Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive,...
Screening the Nonhuman
Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as...
by Brenda Winters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Learn about endangered animals and how to help them.
The Defenders
The history of The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Canada was born on the back of the fur-bearing animal. Since the time of first contact, trapping and the fur trade was a part of the Canadian identity. But by the 1930s, a small band of individuals believed that trapping was not humane – that alternatives must be available. That was the start of...