Animals Rights category: 355 books
Social Learning In Animals
The Roots of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems. Such settings contribute to the formation of culture. This book combines the knowledge of two groups of scientists with different backgrounds to establish a working...
by Enos A. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Watched by Wild Animals written by Enos A. Mills who was an American naturalist, author and homesteader. This book was published in 1923. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...
by AA.VV.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology, R. Marchesini - The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift, F. Ferrando - From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate, A. Ferrante e D. Sartori...
Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain
Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann...
Ogni specie di libertà
Carta dei diritti degli animali dell’isola di Gorgona
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2014
“Gli animali non sono cose, né macchine”: è l’articolo 1 della Carta dei Diritti degli Animali, inedita Costituzione dei non umani, nata tra il verde e il mare di Gorgona. Dall’ultima isola-carcere d’Italia il veterinario Marco Verdone -insieme ad altre autorevoli voci- pone le basi per...
The Long, The Short And The Tall
The Rescue Dogs, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2019
Happy Stories, Funny Stories, Sad Stories,
But Always True Stories About Living with Rescue Dogs.
"Tears & Laughter" "Heartwarming & Captivating."
Katie Woods grew up with animals; as a little girl, her best friend and guardian was a dog.
Growing...
Animals In Human Society
Amazing Creatures Who Share Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Including the work of 12 authors from institutions such as Colorado State University, Frostburg State University, Michigan State University, Salisbury University, Texas Woman’s University, University of Birmingham, University of California; Irvine, University of California; Merced, and William Jessup...
Cyclura
Natural History, Husbandry, and Conservation of West Indian Rock Iguanas
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Rock iguanas of the West Indies are considered to be the most endangered group of lizards in the world. They are a flagship species in the Caribbean and on most islands are the largest native land animals. Unfortunately, human encroachment and introduced animals have brought this species to the brink...
Food of Sinful Demons
Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans—both monastic and lay—have made meat a regular...
Species Matters
Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability,...
To Free a Dolphin
A Dramatic Case for Keeping Dolphins in their Natural Environment, by the Trainer of "Flipper"
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In this memorable first book, Behind the Dolphin Smile, Richard O'Barry told the inspiring story of his personal transformation from world-famous dolphin trainer (Flipper was his pupil) to dolphin liberator. Now, in To Free a Dolphin, he passionately recounts the dramatic story of his heart-breaking...
by Jacky Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds is moving rapidly away from evolutionary pressures and towards human purposes: these include the breeding of around 50 billion mammals and birds for food production annually, the breeding of pedigree dogs and cats, racing dogs...
by Michael Lanfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In order to live in a harmonious, loving and compassionate world amongst animals, the earth and one another, we have to awaken to our true selves and realize the underlying reason for the many human-made problems. Until we come to the realization that nonhuman animals are not here for us, but rather...
by Richard Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Elephants have long been targeted by humans: not only are they killed for their ivory, but their extraordinary strength, intelligence and charisma have seen some of them captured, chained and effectively jailed for life. Bully and Induna are two African elephants, both orphaned in organised culling...