Animals Rights category: 355 books
Visionary Women
How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement
This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the...
Slaughterhouse
The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years — particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation — have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the...
Bleating Hearts
The Hidden World of Animal Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Comprehensive and hard-hitting, Bleating Hearts examines the world’s vast exploitation of animals, from the food, fashion, and research industries to the use of other species for sport, war, entertainment, religion, labor and pleasure.
The Ethics of What We Eat
Why Our Food Choices Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it...
How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation
Understanding Pound Seizure
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Back in the 1940s, the practice referred to as Opound seizureO became a common practice in taxpayer-funded animal shelters across the country. Whether for cosmetic testing, human or animal drug testing, medical technique and tool testing, or biochemical testing, these once-family pets are subjected...
Striking At The Roots: A Practical Gt An
A Practical Guide to Animal Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Animal activists shine a bright light into the dark recesses of factory farms, vivisection labs, fur farms, product-testing facilities and animal “training” complexes. Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism brings together the most effective tactics for speaking out for animals....
Letter To A Vegetarian Nation
We Need Livestock For Sustainable Food Production And Environmental Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
The debate about animal agriculture will never be the same again. Sorting out whether livestock and meat are good or bad, among the thousands of contradictory opinions, can be an overwhelming task. This book makes it easy.
“Letter To A Vegetarian Nation” is a meticulously...
by Sonia Faruqi
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Finalist for the 2017 International Book Awards
Runner-up for the 2016 New England Book Festival Award
Finalist for the 2015 Chautauqua Prize (longlist)
Sonia Faruqi, an Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of a dairy...
The Ethics of Animal Research
Exploring the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.
An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide—including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice—are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year...
Fear of the Animal Planet
The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Taking the reader deep inside of the circus, the zoo, and similar operations, Fear of the Animal Planet provides a window into animal behavior: chimpanzees escape, elephants attack, orcas demand more food, and tigers refuse to perform. Indeed, these animals are rebelling with intent and purpose. They become true heroes and our understanding of them will never be the same.
Taming the Wild Horse
An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually unknown text offers unique...
by Frederick Courteney Selous
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The chapters comprised in the present volume were written at various times during the last ten years. Some of them have already appeared in print in the pages of the Field, Land and Water, and other papers, but the majority have remained in manuscript until now. The greatest part of the matter in...
Beyond the Cyborg
Adventures with Donna Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion...
by R.M. Winn
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Master storyteller Ryle Winn learnt his craft in the backblocks, experimented with it in the public bar and honed it in between musters and sale yards.
In this third collection of true tales, animals rather than people take centre stage - with a tip of the hat to Henry Lawson's much-loved story 'The...