Animals Rights category: 355 books
by Sonora Carver
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
A Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken. Carver answered the following want ad: Wanted: Attractive young woman who can swim and dive. Likes horses, desires to travel. See Dr. W. F. Carver, Savannah Hotel. From there she...
Endangered Species: A Documentary and Reference Guide
A Documentary and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book uses primary documents as a lens through which to examine historical and present-day efforts to protect endangered species in the United States and around the world.
• Analyzes the connections between human behavior, industrialization, modernization, and public policy, and examines...
Blood and Guts
Dispatches from the Whale Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It’s loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels’ engines and the hiss of ten water cannons … Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces – afraid, excited,...
Dog, Inc.
How a Collection of Visionaries, Rebels, Eccentrics, and Their Pets Launched the Commercial Dog Cloning Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
What Stiff did for the dead and Fast Food Nation did for the burger, Dog, Inc. does for the stranger-than-fiction world of commercial dog cloning.
It all began with a pit bull named Booger. Former Miss Wyoming Bernann McKinney was so distraught over the death of her dog, whom she regarded as...
Zoo Story
Life in the Garden of Captives
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
"This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for...
by Michael Lanfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The Journey is a short book based on the ideas and teachings of Michael Lanfield, best-selling author of The Interconnectedness of Life and The Lost Love. This book is a gateway to a kinder and more compassionate way of living. We are all on a journey, but wouldn’t it be great if we could all just...
by Morris Gleitzman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Like many of his mates from the bush, Frank Ballantyne is keen to join the grand adventure and do his bit. Specially as a chest full of medals might impress the currently unimpressed parents of his childhood sweetheart. So Frank ups his age and volunteers with his horse Daisy ... and his dad.
In...
How To Go Vegan
The why, the how, and everything you need to make going vegan easy
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Going vegan is easy!
Whether you're already a full-time vegan, considering making the switch or know someone who is, this book will give you all the tools you need to make the change towards a healthier, happier and more ethical lifestyle.
How to Go Vegan includes...
Why try vegan?
Animal...
Red Panda
Biology and Conservation of the First Panda
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda provides a broad-based overview of the biology of the red panda, Ailurus fulgens. A carnivore that feeds almost entirely on vegetable material and is colored chestnut red, chocolate brown and cream rather than the expected black and white. This...
by Marc Naguib, John C. Mitani, Leigh W. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. This volume makes another important contribution to the development of the field by presenting theoretical ideas and research findings to professionals...
by Marc Naguib, Jeffrey Podos, Leigh W. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 49 provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including social behaviors in reptiles, the behavioral evidence of felt emotions, a section on developmental plasticity, a chapter...
Saving Anne the Elephant
The True Story of the Last British Circus Elephant
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When shocking images emerged of Anne, Britain's last circus elephant, being beaten by one of her keepers, it sparked a national outcry. Undercover footage showed the gentle creature cowering in fear as the youth repeatedly inflicted violent attacks on her, making her wince in pain. The public was...
An American Trilogy
Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The Cape Fear River runs through Bladen County, North Carolina, population 33,000. On its western bank, in the town of Tar Heel, sits the largest slaughterhouse in the world. Deep below the slaughterhouse, one may find the arrowheads of Siouan-speaking peoples who roamed there for a millennium. Nearer...
Beyond Beliefs
A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters can feel like they’re living in different worlds. Many vegans and vegetarians struggle to feel understood and respected in a meat-eating culture, where some of their most pressing concerns and cherished beliefs are invisible, and where they are often met with defensiveness...