Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: £19.49£16.73Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good... -
Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism by Lorraine Daston 9780231130394
RRP: £28.00£24.96Is 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... -
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals by Christine M. Korsgaard 9780198753858
RRP: £25.49£21.58Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good... -
Dog Years by Mark Doty
RRP: £9.99£7.11Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care, to join Arden, the... -
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Pena-Guzman
RRP: £20.00£15.54A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on... -
Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics by Emilia A. Leese
RRP: £14.99£9.72According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014, now representing over 1 per cent of the total population. With the rise in plant-based foods and cruelty-free products showing no sign of stopping, Think... -
Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries by Isa Leshko
RRP: £30.00£28.36There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet-a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usually... -
Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: £28.00£21.36Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive... -
Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan
RRP: £19.99£17.17A multifaceted response to the question,A multifaceted response to the question, "Do animals have rights?" from an intellectual leader in the animal rights movementAbout the AuthorTom Regan is professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State... -
Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal by Cary Wolfe 9780816641062
RRP: £21.99£19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816641062Author Cary WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Saving Anne the Elephant: The Rescue of the Last British Circus Elephant by Claire Ellicott 9781784189778
RRP: £12.99£8.49When shocking images emerged of Anne, Britain's last circus elephant, being beaten by one of her keepers, it sparked a national outcry. Undercover footage showed the gentle creature cowering in fear as the youth repeatedly inflicted violent attacks on... -
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp 9780199351978
£52.44Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume. Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds... -
Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-culture Borderlands by Jennifer R. Wolch
RRP: £21.99£18.49Each year billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity-usually for the benefit of humans. The animal world has never been under greater peril and this broad-ranging collection contributes to a... -
The Redemption of the Animals: Their Evolution, Their Inner Life, and Our Future Together by Douglas Sloan
RRP: £20.00£14.29As human beings, what is our true relation to the animals on earth? What is our responsibility to our fellow creatures? Douglas Sloan explores these and other questions in this important book on the human animal connection. His explorations are based on... -
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism by Carol J. Adams
RRP: £19.99£17.13The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and... -
Second Nature: Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals by David J. Shepherdson
£19.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560983972Author David J. ShepherdsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)... -
Creatures of the Same God: Explorations in Animal Theology by Andrew Linzey
RRP: £16.99£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590561423Author Andrew LinzeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals by Gary L Francione 9781492386513
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492386513Author Gary L FrancioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 177g -
The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanislaw Lubienski
RRP: £12.99£8.94Birds have inspired people since the dawn of time. They are the notes behind Mozart's genius, the colours behind Audubon's art and ballet's swansong. In The Birds They Sang, Stanislaw Lubienski sheds light on some of history's most meaningful bird... -
Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights by Karen Bradshaw
RRP: £24.00£23.03Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption... -
Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to be Animals by Carl Safina
RRP: £10.99£7.12A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 'Bracing and enlightening' Science Culture is something exclusive to human beings, isn't it? Not so, says intrepid researcher Carl Safina. Becoming Wild reveals the rich cultures that survive in some of... -
Animals, Welfare and the Law: Fundamental Principles for Critical Assessment by Ian A. Robertson
RRP: £47.99£41.81In this objective, practical and authoritative introductory text the author reveals how the fundamental principles of the human-animal relationship drive the development of animal law. The book explains the criteria by which the lawful use of animals is... -
Squid by Martin Wallen
RRP: £13.95£13.43In myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans. Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep into unremarkable calamari, squids continue to dominate the... -
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
RRP: £10.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401310530Author Thomas FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm * 24mm -
Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals by Lori Gruen 9781590564875
RRP: £18.99£12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564875Author Lori GruenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 0g -
Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions by Samantha Hurn 9780745331195
£27.40What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality... -
Animal Welfare Science, Husbandry and Ethics: The Evolving Story of Our Relationship with Farm Animals by Mark Fisher 9781789180084
RRP: £24.95£21.75Animal Welfare has been a subject of intellectual and academic study for a long time. In the past philosophers, thought-leaders and scientists have contributed to the debate, and seismic changes such as the advent of post-war industrial farming have... -
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question by Benedicte Boisseron 9780231186650
RRP: £28.00£21.36The animal-rights organization PETA asked "Are Animals the New Slaves?" in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some... -
Death In The Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death'This is Hemingway's classic... -
Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation by Anthony J. Nocella, II 9781793635228
RRP: £73.00£67.62An essential read for activists, community organizers, justice scholars, and academic administrators, Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation is a collection that combines scholarship and... -
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
RRP: £20.99£19.18What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling... -
Our Animal Neighbors: Compassion for Every Furry, Slimy, Prickly Creature on Earth by Matthieu Ricard
RRP: £16.99£12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807233Author Matthieu RicardFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood by Sam Machado 9781642830859
RRP: £23.99£20.11Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices... -
Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection by Kendra Coulter 9780262048286
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048286Author Kendra CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Decolonising Animals by Dr Rick Vos
RRP: £26.99£21.37The lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue to be ignored, discounted, written over and destroyed by anthropocentric practices and endeavours. Within... -
Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology by Jussi Parikka
RRP: £23.99£20.41Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In... -
A Practical Approach to Animal Welfare Law by Noel Sweeney 9781910455807
RRP: £39.95£35.19Historically animal law has been a piecemeal legislative process of amendments and repeals. The slow progress of the legislation has finally resulted in the introduction of the two main criminal statutes affecting animals, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and... -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello
RRP: £35.00£28.21Human-animal studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds. It examines the interactions humans and animals have with each other and the ways animal lives intersect with human... -
When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy by Eva Meijer
RRP: £33.00£28.50Winner, 2020 ASCA Book Award, given by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, ground-breaking theory of language and politics, arguing... -
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer 9780316069885
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316069885Author Jonathan Safran FoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...