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Representing Animals by Nigel Rothfels
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors-historians, literary critics,... -
Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures by Nigel Rothfels
RRP: £35.50Booksplease Price: £24.98Why have elephants-and our preconceptions about them-been central to so much of human thought?From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of... -
Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo Nigel Rothfels 9781421450889
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.61Now completely revised! A history of the modern zoo.In this revised edition of Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German entrepreneur Carl... -
Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History by Liv Emma Thorsen 9780271060712
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £28.93John Berger famously said that "in the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared." Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from our daily lives and that we have... -
Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture Martin A. Danahay 9781138246430
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £54.10The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal... -
Animal Acts: Performing Species Today by Una Chaudhuri 9780472071999
Booksplease Price: £61.71We all have an animal story-the pet we loved, the wild animal that captured our childhood imagination, the deer the neighbor hit while driving. While scientific breakthroughs in animal cognition, the... -
Animal Acts: Performing Species Today by Una Chaudhuri 9780472051991
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14We all have an animal story-the pet we loved, the wild animal that captured our childhood imagination, the deer the neighbor hit while driving. While scientific breakthroughs in animal cognition, the... -
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History by Dorothee Brantz 9780813929477
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.75Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only... -
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History by Dorothee Brantz 9780813946429
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only... -
Captive Beauty by Frank Noelker
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The fifty color photographs in Frank Noelker's Captive Beauty are not simple, uncomplicated shots of animals in zoo settings; there is an ambivalence in them that only gradually envelops the viewer... -
Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History by Jennifer Bonnell 9781773853833
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have... -
Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History by Jennifer Bonnell 9781773853840
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have... -
Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto by Lisa Uddin
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic... -
Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations by Dr. Carol Freeman
Booksplease Price: £44.85Considering Animals draws on the expertise of scholars trained in the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences to investigate the complex and contradictory relationships humans have with... -
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada by Joanna Dean 9781552388648
Booksplease Price: £34.35Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped... -
Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America by Susan D. Jones 9780801871290
Booksplease Price: £48.96Over the course of the twentieth century, the relationship between Americans and their domestic animals has changed dramatically. In the 1890s, pets were a luxury, horses were the primary mode of... -
Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo by Professor of History Gary Bruce
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.40In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating... -
Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo by Gary Bruce
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £30.53In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby 9780190673093
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.69Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on their plight. Yet no... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £16.54Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until...