Animals Rights category: 355 books
TIME The Animal Mind
How They Think. How They Feel. How to Understand Them.
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
They work with us, they play with us . . . but what do they think of us?
Some of our best friends are animals. But what are they really thinking? Discover the rich inner lives of dogs, cats, whales, elephants, parrots, and dozens of other animals-even insects-with this thought-provoking book,...
Beasts of Burden
Animal and Disability Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Author platform: Taylor is well known in disability studies, arts, and activist circles and an experienced public speaker, with appearances at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, California College for the Arts, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the New School,...
Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism
New Tactics, New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
A major revision of animal rights bible Striking at the Roots, referencing changes from the last 10 years including the rise of social media, which is now a key part of any campaign. The book brings together the most effective tactics for speaking out for animal rights. Activists from around the globe...
Speciesism, Painism and Happiness
A Morality for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Richard Ryder created the term speciesism in early 1970 and shared the idea with Peter Singer, who popularised it in his classic work Animal Liberation (1975). A key figure in the modern animal rights revival Ryder appeared on the first-ever televised discussion of animal rights (The Lion's Share, Scottish...
Total Liberation
The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief....
Animal Liberation
The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The groundbreaking and “important” book about animal rights by the author of Ethics in the Real World—including a new preface (Chicago Tribune).
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world’s philosophical and animal-protection circles...
by Joanna Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of The Story of Pain. “This deeply scholarly work is lively and challenging in equal measure, and rewarding throughout” (The Boston Globe).
In 1872, a woman known only as “An Earnest Englishwoman” published a letter titled “Are Women Animals?” in which she protested...
The Animals' Agenda
Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf
Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotional animals are—did you know rats like to play and laugh,...
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see...
Animals Matter
A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Nonhuman animals have many of the same feelings we do. They get hurt, they suffer, they are happy, and they take care of each other. Marc Bekoff, a renowned biologist specializing in animal minds and emotions, guides readers from high school age up—including older adults who want a basic introduction...
by Clare Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions...
Writing for Animals
New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing
Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely...
Animals and Society
An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human–animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct positions,...
Through Animals' Eyes, Again
Stories of Wildlife Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
From the author of Through Animals Eyes come more true stories from the rare perspective of someone who not only cares for the animals she treats, but also has never wanted nor tried to tame or change them. Lynn Cuny founded Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (WRR) in 1977 in her backyard in San Antonio....