Anna Peterson: 6 books

Book cover of Being Animal

Being Animal

Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics

by Anna Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting...
Book cover of Everyday Ethics and Social Change

Everyday Ethics and Social Change

The Education of Desire

by Anna Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009

Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our everyday lives. In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and nonhuman...
Book cover of Religion and Sustainable Agriculture

Religion and Sustainable Agriculture

World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics

by Todd LeVasseur, Yigal Deutscher, Leonor Hurtado
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016

Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with...
Book cover of Laughter on the Fringes

Laughter on the Fringes

The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World

by Anna Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive...
Book cover of Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies
by Jared D. Kass, Ellen Mullin, Janet Surrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013

This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes...
Book cover of Old Law, New Tricks: Using the Clean Air Act to Curb Climate Change
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
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