Animal Rights

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is much evidence of animals...

Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as...

This unique book establishes potential future avenues within the law to enhance the welfare of animals and grant them recognized legal status. Charting the direction of the animal-human relationship for future generations, it explores the core concepts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564233Author Nik TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

"If veganism is about doing your best to not harm any sentient life, we must logically extend that circle of compassion to human animals as well," writes Mark Hawthorne in this practical, engaging guide to veganism and animal rights. Along with...

First published in 1983, the second edition of this informative book remains the most comprehensive and current overview of the behavioral traits and adaptations of horses. The book integrates findings from hundreds of international researchers to...

Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the core ethical challenges faced by people who choose to hold and display animals in zoos, aquariums, or sanctuaries. Jenny Gray asserts the value of animal life and assesses the impacts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648757801Author Ray DearloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Ray DearlovePublisher Ray Dearlove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987192967Author Gypsy WulffFormat PaperbackImprint SpiritwingsPublisher SpiritwingsWeight(grams) 503g

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? A Theory of Justice for Animals, written by one of the foremost scholars of animal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566459Author Martin RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western "civilization," one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues persuasively that throughout history the...

Can animals act for moral reasons? Philosophical tradition answers, almost univocally, "no." Recent work in cognitive ethology, however, points in the other direction. Philosophical tradition has apparently convincing arguments on its side. But cognitive...

Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior highlights, through concise summaries, the most important discoveries and scientific revolutions in animal behavior. These are assessed for their relative impact on the field and their significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312329938Author Ingrid E NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

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...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250153258Author Stephanie FeldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564837Author Norm PhelpsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to...

Foot and Mouth and Mad Cow Disease are but two of the results of treating animals as commodities, subject only to commercial constraints and ignoring all natural and moral considerations. Chickens hanging by their necks on conveyor belts, caged pigs...

Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals in the urban context. Considering animals in urban settings is now a firmly established area of study and this book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the...

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593656174Author Rosamund YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 407g

How much do animals matter-morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our benefit? Or, should we offer them some form of moral egalitarianism? Inserting itself into the passionate debate over animal rights, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061711305Author Peter SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063226708Author Peter SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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...

A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States In the past three decades, animal rights advocates have established everything from elephant sanctuaries in Africa to shelters that rehabilitate animals used in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564196Author Carol J. AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides-a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495375736Author Lee CrakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting,...

Peter Singer made animal rights an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago. In this revised edition, he brings together new essays by philosophers and activists, chronicling new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590563960Author Kim StallwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626590Author Sarah A. BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

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 9781957452050Author Animal Liberation Front SgFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Warcry CommunicationsPublisher Warcry CommunicationsWeight(grams)...