Animals Rights category: 355 books
Chasing Coyotes
Accounts of Urban Crises
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Chasing Coyotes recounts the stories of residents in many US cities who have encountered coyotes or suffered the consequences of coyote attacks on themselves or their loved ones. These accounts run the gamut from simple sightings near homes, at parks, and on city streets to coyote attacks on humans....
by Robert Huber, Danika L. Bannasch, Patricia Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model organisms, describes the latest genetic discoveries in relation to neural circuit development and...
by W. Warde Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
It was close upon Midsummer Day, but it was not midsummer weather. A mist rose from moist fields, and hung over the whole countryside as if it were November; the June of 1815 was wet and chill, as June so often is. And as the mist hung over the land, so a certain sense of doubt and anxiety hung over...
Last Chain On Billie
How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradley's Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer her...
100 Heartbeats
The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
It's no secret that our planet—and the delicate web of ecosystems that comprise it—is in crisis. Environmental threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and land degradation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species each day.
In 100 Heartbeats, conservationist...
Foodwise
Understanding What We Eat and How it Affects Us, the Story of Human Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Wendy Cook’s fascination with nutrition began during her war-time childhood. In the midst of deprivation and food-rationing, the rich abundance of her mother’s organic garden made a profound impression. In her twenties, married to Peter Cook, she discovered the artistic and magical effects that...
Plant-Thinking
A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics....
by Dr. Antoine F. Goetschel
Language: German
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Tiere müssen die unterschiedlichsten Funktionen in unserer Gesellschaft erfüllen: Sie ersetzen Familienmitglieder, landen auf unserem Speiseplan oder werden für Laborversuche verwendet. Der weltweit führende Tieranwalt Antoine F. Goetschel kämpft seit 30 Jahren für diejenigen, die keine eigene...
by Thomas Lee Boles
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2002
Deer Diary is a story of friendship between humans and deer and critical examination of the myths and misunderstandings which keep the species apart. The reader will meet adult mule deer, hand raise a fawn, attend Game Commission meetings and discover who really causes deer over-populationand why....
by John Tilston
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
Journalist John Tilston often got tongue tied when trying to explain to dinner guests why he was vegetarian. He decided he'd better find out whether his gut feelings about vegetarianism were right, so he embarked on an exploration of the reasons for not eating meat and whether they stacked up.
He...
Primate People
Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
In the last 30 years the bushmeat trade has led to the slaughter of nearly 90 percent of West Africa’s bonobos, perhaps our closest relatives, and has recently driven Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey to extinction. Earth was once rich with primates, but every species—except one—is now extinct...
A Girl and Five Brave Horses (Rediscovered Books)
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
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...
A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity
The Fight To Bring Lolita Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
On August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young whales. Between 1964 and 1976, dozens of these now-endangered orcas were torn from their home and sent...
by John C. Mitani, Timothy J. Roper, Leigh W. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas...