Animal Rights

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997756302Author Gunther HaukFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Biodynamic AssociationPublisher Biodynamic AssociationDimensions(mm) 228mm * 142mm * 5mm

Apologies 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

Historically 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...

Human-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...

In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998994611Author Julia Feliz BrueckFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Sanctuary PublishersPublisher Sanctuary Publishers

Winner, 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...

Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment Animals are staging a revolution-they're just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, this book threads together news accounts and...

Humankind 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...

Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials consists of two cross-referenced parts. The first, the book itself, is a review of pathological changes and tissue responses in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla and G. beringei), with an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566800Author B.A. MasriFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

An Account of one Woman's Courage, Caring, and Generosity in the Face of the Inhumane Brigitte Bardot-a global icon of French cinema-has used her fame to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Leaving the spotlight of stardom, she has...

Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues,...

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with "admiration and empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.In the last few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412392Author David R. BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566480Author Michelle Rojas-SotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Humans 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...

Apologies 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

Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as...

Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales...

Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565353Author Alex LockwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Ethicist Singer and co-author Mason ("Animal Factories") document corporate deception, widespread waste and desensitization to inhumane practices in this consideration of ethical eating. The authors examine three families' grocery-buying habits and the...

From the moment when we first open our homes - and our hearts - to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most...

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate...

Each 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804744Author Matthieu RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

From Mickey Mouse to the teddy bear, from the Republican elephant to the use of "jackass" as an all-purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture...

Pangolins: Science, Society and Conservation brings together experts from around the world to document the most up-to-date scientific knowledge on pangolins and their conservation. It chronicles threats facing the species, explores the current...

Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859673Author Bob TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 258g

What gives an animal 'rights?' What makes product testing on animals wrong? In Animal Rights, Human Wrongs prominent activist and philosopher Tom Regan skillfully puts forth the argument for animal rights through the exploration of two questions central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732709690Author Peter YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Warcry CommunicationsPublisher Warcry CommunicationsWeight(grams) 1016g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788179933701Author Anjana BasuFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint The Energy and Resources Institute, TERIPublisher The Energy and Resources Institute,...

The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent...

"No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations." - From the book Western conceptions of objectivity and individuality have resulted in a readier...

Are animals worthy recipients of justice? If so, what do we owe them, and what is to be gained by using the language of justice when considering our duties toward them? This innovative book argues that not only are animals worthy recipients of justice,...

Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term "animal rights" is so often used very...

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...