Animal Rights

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...

Animal Behavior, Third Edition covers animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The book's authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university...

Tigers of the World, Second Edition explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and the science and technology that make this possible. In 1988, when the first edition was published, tiger conservation was still in its infancy, and two...

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...

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

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...

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 9781590566480Author Michelle Rojas-SotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

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

Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902636399Author Wendy E. CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Clairview BooksPublisher Temple Lodge Publishing

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...

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...

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)...

With The Human Animal Earthling Identity Carrie P. Freeman asks us to reconsider the devastating division we have created between the human and animal conditions, leading to mass exploitation, injustice, and extinction. As a remedy, Freeman believes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525557333Author Rosamund YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 133g

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

Now that supposedly distinguishing marks of humanity, from reasoning to tool use, have been found in other species, how can we justify discriminating against nonhuman animals solely on the basis of their species? And how must cultural studies and...

With a new Preface by the authorWhen disasters strike, people are not the only victims. Hurricane Katrina raised public attention about how disasters affect dogs, cats, and other animals considered members of the human family. In this short but powerful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566435Author Linnea RyshkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948814775Author Mark SpitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611864373Author Josephine DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University Press

The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the limits of what is imaginable, while at the same time being...

Can animals be regarded as part of the moral community? To what extent, if at all, do they have moral rights? Are we wrong to eat them, hunt them, or use them for scientific research? Can animal liberation be squared with the environmental movement?...

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...

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...

From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Over the course of an introduction and four thematically...

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...

Animal lovers who feed meat to other animals are faced with a paradox: perhaps fewer animals would be harmed if they stopped feeding the ones they love. Animal diets do not raise problems merely for individuals. To address environmental crises, health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566701Author Ingrid NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

Immerse yourself in the world of animal rights protests, campaigns, demonstrations, outreach, rescue, and so much more. In today's world, voices of the marginalized are in the spotlight and people across the globe are recognizing animal rights as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590561201Author Matt BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

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,...

Now that supposedly distinguishing marks of humanity, from reasoning to tool use, have been found in other species, how can we justify discriminating against nonhuman animals solely on the basis of their species? And how must cultural studies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570673986Author Captain Paul WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Book Publishing Company

This book draws together, for the first time, the published research on the behaviour, ecology and welfare of elephants living in zoos, circuses, logging camps and other captive environments in a single comprehensive volume. It takes a multi-disciplinary...

A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as...

Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for...