Animals Rights category: 355 books
Animals as Biotechnology
Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal...
Personalities on the Plate
The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but...
Elephants on the Edge
What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“At times sad and at times heartwarming . . . Helps us to understand not only elephants, but all animals, including ourselves” (Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation).
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology,...
Thinking Through Animals
Identity, Difference, Indistinction
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
The rapidly expanding field of critical animal studies now offers a myriad of theoretical and philosophical positions from which to choose. This timely book provides an overview and analysis of the most influential of these trends. Approachable and concise, it is intended for readers sympathetic to...
Animals and Tourism
Understanding Diverse Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect, whether as tourist attractions, wildlife conservation tools, as travel companions or as meat to be eaten. It aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in...
Stolen
A Kieran Yeats Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Animal crimes investigator Kieran Yeats has 72 hours to pull off a miracle.
Twenty-six animals have disappeared from an upscale Vancouver Island neighborhood, stolen by shadowy animal thieves called bunchers. The animals’ destination? A university laboratory where they will become the unwilling...
Beastly Morality
Animals as Ethical Agents
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
We have come to regard nonhuman animals as beings of concern, and we even grant them some legal protections. But until we understand animals as moral agents in and of themselves, they will be nothing more than distant recipients of our largesse. Featuring original essays by philosophers, ethicists,...
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.
Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic...
My Gentle Barn
Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back.” –Sy Montgomery, The Good Good Pig
Founder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later...
by Cindy Traisi
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2009
Cindy Traisi has done it again. She has brought me joy with her storytelling abilities and brought this self-perceived, tattooed tough guy to tears with her accounts of the injured wild animals passing through the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Southern California.
Cindy's first book,...
A Plea for the Animals
The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness...
The Modern Savage
Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Just Food author James McWilliams's exploration of the "compassionate carnivore" movement and the paradox of humanity's relationship with animals.
In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings,...
Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them
On the Importance of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed? In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the...