Animals Rights category: 355 books
Speculative Taxidermy
Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art, culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have...
Living the Farm Sanctuary Life
The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award!
Gene Baur, the cofounder and president of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, knows that the key to happiness lies in aligning your beliefs with your actions. In this definitive vegan and animal-friendly lifestyle...
J. M. Coetzee and Ethics
Philosophical Perspectives on Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless...
by Averil Swinfen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
The donkey is an integral part of the Irish landscape and tradition. This new, enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1969 traces the evolution of the species from its origins in Africa and central Asia to its arrival in Ireland in the early mediaeval period, and the multiple uses to which...
Lost and Found
True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
In the heart-warming Lost and Found, discover tales from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that celebrate the power of animals to transform people's lives.
We hear from the young boy whose Battersea dog helped him to deal with a serious autoimmune disease, and from a woman whose Staffie was the...
Unconditional Love
PetRescue's Great Animal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Inspired by the unconditional love of pets, PetRescue brings us great stories of animals that have changed lives. From cats and dogs to guinea pigs and horses, this is about all creatures great and small and the joy they can bring their two-legged friends.
All pets are blessed with a natural ability...
by Michael D. Breed, Janice Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Animal Behavior covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael D. Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university professors to this textbook, much of that teaching...
by Magnus Vinding
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Ethics relates to the well-being of conscious beings. Once we admit this, one of the most fundamental and important questions we must ask ourselves is: who are the conscious beings? Who are the beings we should have moral concern for?
This short book aims to provide a reasonable answer to this question,...
Messy Eating
Conversations on Animals as Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A thought-provoking collection of interviews with a variety of scholars that weaves their intellectual and political orientations with their daily intimate practices of preparing and eating food.
The Eye of the Elephant
An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1993
The authors of Secrets of the Sahara battle the elephant poachers of Zambia in this “exciting . . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale” (The Boston Globe).
Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the...
by E. Raymond Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Introduction
The weasel's agility and speed take it in and out of retreats, over obstacles and across open places in amazingly rapid fashion and are responsible for the animal's actions being described as "quick as a flash." The common long-tailed weasel of the United States measures...
Ethics on the Ark
Zoos, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Ethics on the Ark presents a passionate, multivocal discussion—among zoo professionals, activists, conservation biologists, and philosophers—about the future of zoos and aquariums, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the question of whether the individual, the species, or the ecosystem...
by Jack Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
"One need not be a passionate conservationist or lover of animals to be charmed by Cooper's admiration of them. The awe he feels in 'The Turtles of La Escobilla' for the turtles' unstoppable life force in the face of human cruelty runs deeper than an environmentalist's tantrum. And that, in the...
by Edward Turner Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The origin of Menageries dates from the most remote antiquity. Their existence may be traced even in the obscure traditions of the fabulous ages, when the contests of the barbarian leader with his fellow-men were relieved by exploits in the chase scarcely less adventurous, and when the monster-queller...