Animals Rights category: 355 books
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable...
Radiant
Farm Animals Up Close and Personal
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Gregarious or shy, curious or placid, playful or retiring, all the animals in Traer Scott's newest collection have one thing in common: a sparkling personality! This whimsical, soulful, and personal photo collection focuses on the lives of the farm animals we often take for granted. Scott introduces...
Rescue Ink
Tough Guys on a Mission to Keep Our Animals Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger
Though Joe Panz, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Des, and Eric initially met and formed their friendships at tattoo and motorcycle conventions, they soon learned that they shared another passion: animals. Each...
by Rosamund Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
**"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."—Lydia Davis
In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows...
The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World
Practical Advice and Everyday Actions for a More Sustainable, Humane, and Compassionate Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
"This book belongs on every animal lover's shelf**—**and it's a particularly great gift for young people who are on fire to save animals but are unsure where to start. Hooray!!" —Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an Octopus
The Animal Lover's Guide to...
Food, Animals, and the Environment
An Ethical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Food, Animals, and the Environment: An Ethical Approach examines some of the main impacts that agriculture has on humans, nonhumans, and the environment, as well as some of the main questions that these impacts raise for the ethics of food production, consumption, and activism. Agriculture is having...
Livestock
Food, Fiber, and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Most livestock in America currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation...
The End of Animal Farming
How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing...
Beyond Words
What Animals Think and Feel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you?
Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,...
Thinking Animals
Why Animal Studies Now?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species...
Electric Animal
Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as...
Animal Heroes
Inspiring true stories of courageous animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The PDSA Dickin Medal (regarded as the animals’ Victoria Cross) has been awarded to just 64 animals, from the Blitz to present day, for their courage in times of crisis. Among these incredible true-life stories you will meet…
G.I. Joe the plucky pigeon, who rescued over 100 lives by flying...
The Ultimate Betrayal
Is There Happy Meat?
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Drawing on peer-reviewed research, worker and rescuer testimony, and encounters with the farm animals themselves, The Ultimate Betrayal discusses the recent shift in raising and labeling animals processed for food and the misinformation surrounding this new method of farming. This book explores how...
Defending the Defenseless
A Guide to Protecting and Advocating for Pets
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Do you love cats, dogs and other pets? Do you want to do more to help protect and advocate for these pets, but don't know where to start? Defending the Defenseless is for anyone who wants to join a growing crusade to bring animal protection to its rightful place in a civilized society, to protect...