Animals and society Books
Independently Published Silent Sentinels
£11.33
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Veganism Virtues
£13.66
Independently Published Baladi: The Journey of an Egyptian Street Dog
£13.57
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Humane Economy How Innovators and Enlightened
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERESSENTIAL READING. — JANE GOODALLA CRITICALLY IMPORTANT BOOK. — JACK WELCHFrom the leader of the nation’s most powerful animal-protection organization comes a frontline account of how conscience and creativity are driving a revolution in American business that is changing forever how we treat animals and create wealth. Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the United States reveals how entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CEOs, world-class scientists, philanthropists, and a new class of political leaders are driving the burgeoning, unstoppable growth of the “humane economy.”Every business grounded on animal exploitation, Pacelle argues, is ripe for disruption. Indeed each one of us is, and will be, touched by this far-reaching transformation in food and agriculture; in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetics industries; in film, television, and live entertainment; in tourism and wildlife management; in the pet trade for dogs and cats and exotic wildlife; and in fur and leather fashions. Collectively it promises to relieve or end the suffering of billions of creatures, while allowing businesses aligned with the best instincts and values of their customers to flourish. Pacelle shows, for instance, how the cruelties of industrial chicken farming are quickly becoming obsolete with a visit to Hampton Creek, the makers of a plant-based egg substitute and the world’s fastest-growing food startup ever. Pacelle also recounts the stories of how established companies are joining in this economic transformation: from Petco and PetSmart, which have turned the conventional pet store model on its head by forswearing puppy mill suppliers in favor of shelter dogs; to John Paul Mitchell Systems, the Body Shop, and Lush, which use safe ingredients instead of animal tests for their cosmetics; to major food retailers like Whole Foods, Chipotle, and even Costco and Walmart, which are embracing animal welfare standards that are one by one unwinding the horrors of the factory farm.The Humane Economy is a clarion call to business leaders and to the world’s growing animal protection movement; it is equally a warning to the static thinking of animal-use industries and their apologists: “Here, in this humane economy,” Pacelle argues, “human ingenuity meets human virtue, and we discover at last that we can have it both ways — a better world for us and for animals, too.”
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Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Individual jaguars 1. Identifying individual jaguars - Paul Brooke and Paul Donahue Section 3: Setting the scene 2. Habitat for Jaguars - Paul Donahue Section 4: Jaguar biology 3. Characteristics and physiology - Paul Brooke 4. Once they were even larger - Paul Brooke 5. Prey items of jaguars - Paul Brooke 6. Bite force and consumption of prey - Paul Brooke 7. Tree-climbing ability of jaguars 8. Territories, population density, and the jaguar corridor - Paul Brooke 9. Flehmen response and scent lures - Paul Brooke 10. The not so solitary - Paul Donahue 11. Mating, cub rearing, and natal disperal - Paul Brooke 12. Suffering and grooming - Paul Brooke 13. Aging and geriatric jaguars - Paul Brooke Section 5: Jaguar tourism and conservation 14. Jaguar tourism - Paul Donahue 15. The scourge of humans - Paul Brooke 16. Jaguars have a cow problem - Paul Donahue 17. Safeguarding cattle with cattle and water buffaloes - Paul Brooke 18. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals - Paul Donahue 19. Hydrophilia and mercury poisoning - Paul Brooke Section 6: Miscellaneous 20. Isca da Onça - Paul Donahue 21. Miscellaneous observations and information - Paul Donahue 22. Field notes - Paul Donahue 23. Pantanal way points for 2017 and 2019 - Paul Donahue 24. Jaguar identification guide examples and names - Abbie Martin, Paul Brooke Section 7: Final thoughts 25. Laying aside fear, embracing beauty - Paul Brooke Authors' biographies Index
£91.80
Little, Brown & Company Why Do Elephants Have Big Ears
Book SynopsisFascinating 'Why' questions about animals, and plenty of new ones, take center stage in the latest book by Caldecott Honor–winning duo Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.Do you know why a camel has a hump? A Zebra has stripes? Or why wombats have cube-shaped poop? Find out the answers in this fun and beautifully illustrated book, and learn oodles of other intriguing facts about the animal world. It's the perfect gift for any kid who loves animals and is always asking 'Why?' because who doesn't want to know why a flamingo stands on one leg? Steve Jenkins and Robin Page have written and illustrated almost 100 nonfiction children’s books that have sold over 5 million copies between them. Masters at making nonfiction entertaining and visually engaging, their books have won numerous awards and are favorites of kids, parents, and teachers alike.
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Edinburgh University Press Animal Theory
Book SynopsisA critical introduction to theoretical approaches to the animal in modern and contemporary philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Animals as Humans; 2. Animal Ontology; 3. Animal Life; 4. Animal Ethics; Index
£27.54
Little, Brown Book Group The Loneliest Polar Bear A True Story of Survival
Book SynopsisThe heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and left her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny, squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn''t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world themselves, by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers would work around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora.Humans rarely get as close to a polar bear as Nora''s keepers got with their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora''s biTrade ReviewThis page-turner is sure to captivate animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a touching story. * Publishers Weekly *Excellent * Independent *Most engaging * Daily Mail *The book brilliantly weaves in the real-life story of captive polar bear Nora and the effects of global warming ... be prepared to shed a tear or two. * thehoneycombers.com *Through his captivating account of the life of Nora, a zoo-bred-and-born polar bear abandoned by her mother, Williams cuts the monumental crisis of global warming down to irresistible size. * South China Morning Post *
£16.14
Little, Brown Book Group Awakenings a guide to living a vegan lifestyle
Book SynopsisA truly vegan lifestyle is more than just the food you eat, it''s the shoes on your feet, the clothes in your wardrobe, the contents of your cupboards and your make-up bag. Whether vegan for moral, ethical or environmental reasons Lucy Watson demystifies how to live a holistic vegan life, whether it''s something you''ve been practising for years or is a way of life you''re just discovering.Simple, practical and full of beautiful images Awakenings is perfect for anyone looking to reduce their environmental impact and make ethical choices that don''t impact on animals.
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Oneworld Publications The Longest Story
Book SynopsisWhy do we treat our dogs as people but prefer pigs as bacon?‘Lucid, informed and persuasive’ Evening Standard ‘Thought-provoking’ Daily Mail ‘An extraordinary book’ Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history of humanity’s relationship with other species is baffling. Without animals there would be no us. We are all fellow travellers on the same evolutionary journey. By charting the love-hate story of people and animals, from their first acquaintance in deep prehistory to the present and beyond, Richard Girling reveals how and where our attitudes towards animals began - and how they have persisted, been warped and become magnified ever since. In dazzling prose, The Longest Story tells of the cumulative influence of theologians, writers, artists, warriors, philosophers, farmers, activists and scientists across the centuriesTrade Review‘Informed and persuasive… By the end, you wonder why the animals have put up with us.’ * Julian Glover, Evening Standard *‘Thought-provoking.’ * Mark Mason, Daily Mail *‘An extraordinary book, brimming with wisdom and insight. Richard Girling holds up a horrifying mirror for us: how can the cleverest creature on earth be so unutterably stupid?’ -- Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer‘The Longest Story is a compelling and thought-inspiring search inside our moral selves. Through masterful introspection, Girling delves into our relationships, fascinations and follies with animals. He tracks the origins of attitudes, unpacks contradictions and asks whether our interactions with other species holds the key to our own survival. In an age of extinction, this is essential reading.’ -- Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming and author of Farmageddon: The true cost of cheap meat‘A brilliant book. Absorbing and – yes – shaming.’ -- Stanley Johnson, Ambassador, Compassion in World Farming; Winner of RSPCA Richard Martin Award‘The Longest Story blends natural history, philosophy, and narrative artistry to explore the connections between humans and animals, from prehistory to the present and the future. Written in descriptive, almost lyrical prose… The Longest Story is brimming cover to cover with fascinating facts.’ * Midwest Book Review *‘Girling brings immediacy to his engaging commentary, whether he’s exploring ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, or the twenty-first century… This thoughtful offering is a plea for readers to respect life in all forms.’ * Booklist *‘Richard Girling’s The Longest Story is a social science examination of the relationships between humans and animals – a topic that’s seldom considered, but is close at hand and environmentally relevant… mythic in scope and style… it works toward a stunning conclusion about where humans should look for wisdom.’ * Foreword Reviews *
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Open Gate Press Animal Sanctuary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Perspectives on HumanAnimal Communication
Book SynopsisDespite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a discipline too long defined by that fallacy of division, human or nonhuman, into conversation with animal studies, biosemiotics, and environmental communication, as well as other recent intellectual and activist movements for reconceptualizing relationships and interactions in the biosphere. This book is a much-needed point of entry for future scholarship on animal-human communication, as well as the whole range of communication possibilities among the more-than-human world. It offers a groundbreaking transformation of higher education by charting new directions for communication research, policy formation, and personal and professional practices involving animals.Trade Review"Plec’s anthology is organized around three ideas that deeply engage the reader, complicity, implication, and coherence. [...] In addition to implicating the reader, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication would be a great text to teach from at any level. [...] The issues raised on these pages are imperative for creating a sustainable and humane world." --Julie Kalil Schutten, Environmental Communication"Emily Plec’s collection of essays on human-animal communication presents a variety of views on the borderlands where species meet and interact, and how humans communicate on behalf of animals, about animals, and sometimes with animals. These interactions present a rich tapestry of persuasive efforts – some performed by agents, others by mediators for those perceived as voiceless in the mainstream of human communications theory." --Alex C. Parrish, Journal for Critical Animal StudiesTable of Contents1. Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: An Introduction Part I: Complicity 2. Animals as Media: Speaking Through/With Nonhuman Beings 3. Beached Whales: Tracing the Rhetorical Force of Extraordinary Material Articulations 4. Framing Primate Testing: How Supporters and Opponents Construct Meaning and Shape the Debate 5. Absorbent and Yellow and Porous is He: Animated Animal Bodies in SpongeBob Squarepants Part II: Implication 6. Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate: Framing Veganism as Living Your Values 7. The "Golden" Bond: Exploring Human-Canine Relationships with a Retriever 8. Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients: The Veterinarians’ View 9. Flocking Bird-Human Ritual Communication 10. Banging on the Divide: Cultural Reflection and Refraction at the Zoo Part III: Coherence 11. Listening with the Third Eye: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Animal Communicators 12. Thinking through Ravens: Human Hunters, Wolf-birds, and Embodied Communication 13. Un-defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal Communication 14. Difference without hierarchy: Narrative Paradigms and Critical Animal Studies, A Meditation on Communication
£37.99
Orion Publishing Co Gabby The Little Dog that had to Learn to Bark
Book SynopsisA moving, heart-warming and redemptive true story that celebrates the healing power of love between humans and animals.Trade ReviewA roller-coaster of emotions, this book is a real page turner. A must-read for any animal lover. * Dogs Monthly *
£8.99
Edinburgh University Press Meat Markets
Book SynopsisMeat Markets articulates the emergent `nonhuman thought developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press BecomingAnimal
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of texts from philosophical ethology to classical texts, and from continental philosophy to literature Cimatti creates a dialogue with Flaubert, Derrida, Temple Grandin, Heidegger as well as Malaparte and Landolfi explores what human animality looks like, with a particular focus on the work of Gilles Deleuze.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism
Book SynopsisDaniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Meat Markets
Book SynopsisMeat Markets articulates the emergent 'nonhuman thought' developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The AnimaltoCome
Book SynopsisRobert Briggs thinks the politics of animals and animality beyond the critique of anthropocentrism and the concerns of biopolitics. He lays out an original interpretation of Derrida's work which takes the question of the animal beyond the critique of political and philosophical anthropocentrism.Trade Review"The Animal-to-Come is an inspired work of Animal Philosophy. Briggs offers not only a profoundly original intervention into the question of the animal, but a decisive and compelling reorientation of the field of deconstructive animal studies, the effects of which will be felt for years to come." -Rick Elmore, Appalachia State University
£18.99
ECW Press,Canada The Battle Cry Of The Siamese Kitten: Even More
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art. Animals were omnipresent in medieval everyday life. They had enormous importance for medieval agriculture and trade and were also hunted for food and used in popular entertainments. At the same time, animals were kept as pets and used to display their owner's status, whilst medieval religion attributed complex symbolic meanings to animals. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte ReslTrade ReviewThe Cultural History of Animals presents an innovative and compelling introduction to current scholarship about the historical relationships between people and other animals. Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, M.I.T. An innovative and ambitious project that synthesizes knowledge of animals as living creatures and their symbolic representations... an invaluable contribution to our understanding... A combination of surprise and entertainment with serious research gives these volumes a place in the best tradition of accessible science. Bernd Huppauf, New York University for H-Soz-u-Kult High quality editing, clear writing, and abundant visual illustrations ... These volumes will be basic to future scholarship dealing with animals and society. Essential. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Animals in the Middle Ages Brigitte Resl, University of Liverpool 1. Animals in Medieval Folklore and Religion Sophie Page, University College London 2. Medieval Hunting An Smets, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Baudouin van den Abeele, Universite Catholique de Louvain 3. Domestication Esther Pascua, University of St. Andrews 4. Animals in Medieval Sports, Entertainments, and Menageries Lisa Kiser, Ohio State University 5. Animals in Medieval Science Pieter Beullens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 6. Philosophical Beliefs Pieter De Leemans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Matthew Klemm, John Hopkins University 7. Animals in Art in the Middle Ages Brigitte Resl, University of Liverpool Notes Bibliography Index
£100.00
AK Press Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition
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£14.40
New Internationalist Publications Ltd The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights
Book SynopsisExplains the key issues relating to animal rights, charts the growth of the movement and looks at the welfare and protection laws.
£8.07
Centrala Ltd The Empty Space
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£11.40
Vegan Publishers Millennial Vegan: Tips for Navigating
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£11.77
Not Avail Artgerecht ist nur die Freiheit Eine Ethik fr
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Hirmer Verlag Terrible Beauty: Elephant – Human- Ivory
Book SynopsisThe elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throughout all cultures. What sort of material is it? How has it been used in the past and the present? And what can we do today to protect the world’s largest mammals from poachers? This lavishly illustrated volume embarks on a journey through cultural history and takes up a contemporary position. Ivory fascinates. As long as 40,000 years ago people carved mammoth tusks into artful figures and musical instruments, and it remains popular as a material to this day. Ivory polarises, because the animal’s tusks also stand for injustice and violence. The exploitation of man and nature, the threatened extinction of the elephant, poaching and organised crime are phenomena which we associate with ivory. The publication approaches the subject critically and poses the question as to our responsibility in our dealings with both animal and material.Trade Review“Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory . . . . was one of the first exhibits sponsored by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum, a newly formed partnership of cultural institutions in Berlin. This catalog, of the same name, documents the primary challenge undertaken in the exhibit: to examine ethical questions related to the appreciation, study, and exhibition of ivory, a material that is inevitably tied to and dependent upon the killing of elephants. The conflicting dynamics of this ‘fatal combination of beauty and cruelty’ are woven throughout the catalog, poignantly leaving the reader both awed and saddened.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
£25.46
Communalism Press Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between
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£14.20
The University of Chicago Press The Global Pigeon Fieldwork Encounters and
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, the author traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin.Trade Review"This is the most important book yet written about human and animal interaction. It is full of surprising discoveries. Colin Jerolmack shows why the topic is important: it reveals what it is like to be human." (Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Displaying Death and Animating Life HumanAnimal
Book SynopsisThe number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the animals in our ecosystems. In Displaying Death and Animating Life, Jane C. Desmond puts those human-animal relationships under a multidisciplinary lens, focusing on the less obvious, and revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives. Desmond, a pioneer in the field of animal studies, builds the book on a number of case studies. She conducts research on-site at major museums, taxidermy conventions, pet cemeteries, and even at a professional conference for writers of obituaries. She goes behind the scenes at zoos, wildlife clinics, and meetings of pet cemetery professionals. We journey with her as she meets Kanzi, the bonobo artist, and a host of o
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Displaying Death and Animating Life HumanAnimal
Book SynopsisThe number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the animals in our ecosystems. In Displaying Death and Animating Life, Jane C. Desmond puts those human-animal relationships under a multidisciplinary lens, focusing on the less obvious, and revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives. Desmond, a pioneer in the field of animal studies, builds the book on a number of case studies. She conducts research on-site at major museums, taxidermy conventions, pet cemeteries, and even at a professional conference for writers of obituaries. She goes behind the scenes at zoos, wildlife clinics, and meetings of pet cemetery professionals. We journey with her as she meets Kanzi, the bonobo artist, and a host of o
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare
Book SynopsisHevia shows what a big role animal labor played in the colonial project around the world, with a particular focus on India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cow with Ear Tag 1389
Book SynopsisGillespie tells the story of our industrial food system-its cruelties, flaws, and machine-like efficiencies-in a way that's impossible to turn away from: by telling the story of a single cow, from birth to early death.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Animal Rites
Book SynopsisIn 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.Trade Review"Animal Rites offers exciting new readings of a rich variety of texts. This is an original and provocative work that will open up important new arenas of discussion in literary and cultural studies, as well as the discourse of animal rights." - N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became Posthuman
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Before the Law
Book SynopsisAnimal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation, this book fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics.Trade Review"Clearly developed and cogently argued, Before the Law puts existing formulations on the defensive while at the same time challenging them to respond to what is in essence a very straightforward but pressing question: Have we really begun to think through what 'animal life' means or to deal with the consequences of such questioning?" (David Wills, University at Albany, SUNY)"
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The University of Chicago Press Before the Law
Book SynopsisAnimal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation, this book fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics.Trade Review"Clearly developed and cogently argued, Before the Law puts existing formulations on the defensive while at the same time challenging them to respond to what is in essence a very straightforward but pressing question: Have we really begun to think through what 'animal life' means or to deal with the consequences of such questioning?" (David Wills, University at Albany, SUNY)"
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Columbia University Press Animal Rights
Book SynopsisAnimal rights sounds like a modern idea, but in fact - for over three millennia - philosophers, theologians, and political theorists have grappled with the question of our obligations toward animals. This anthology illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals. It includes writings of authors from ancient Greece onwards.Trade ReviewThe anthology adds a much-needed historical depth to current controversies. BMS Book News: Interaction This volume well serves the purposes that the editors set for it. -- David Corner Between the SpeciesTable of ContentsForeword Beyond caricature: preface to the Columbia University press edition Pt. I. Differences between humans and animals 1. Creation of the universe 2. Animals are not political 3. Animals are not rational creatures 4. The human and the beast 5. Animals as automata 6. Animals have no language 7. Understanding in animals 8. A response to Locke 9. Of the reason of animals 10. On animal souls 11. Freedom of the will 12. Organic difference 13. Animals have no concepts 14. Animals are not self-aware 15. An animal is not a species being 16. On the genius of species 17. The lure of the simple distinction Pt. II. Dominion and the limits to power 1. The golden age 2. Animals are for our use 3. Rational domination 4. Unrestricted dominion 5. Difference does not justify domination 6. Animals in the cosmic hierarchy 7. The right of nature 8. Dominion is subject to law 9. The workmanship model 10. Responsibility to the weak 11. Animals do not make war on humans 12. Animals may be used 13. Dominion and property 14. The limits to power 15. Animals as utilities 16. Nature teaches mutual aid 17. Dominion as power 18. Critique of the principle of domination 19. Dominion is social Pt. III. Justice, rights and obligations 1. Justice requires friendship 2. No friendship with irrational creatures 3. Exclusion from friendship is not rational 4. The government of animals 5. Animals have no intrinsic rights 6. Cruelty is not natural 7. No justice without equality 8. Differences do not justify inequality 9. Duties to animals are indirect 10. Animals are not constitutional persons 11. The inalienable rights of animals 12. All nature suffers 13. Limits to the rights over animals 14. Duty to minimize suffering 15. Duties to animals are direct 16. The principle of animal rights 17. Pity for animals 18. Duties to life 19. Outside the scope of the theory of justice 20. The rights of animals 21. All animals are equal 22. Constraints and animals 23. The feminist challenge 24. The struggle for animal rights
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Columbia University Press The Death of the Animal
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn imaginatively structured and thought-provoking addition to the growing Columbia University Press series in animal studies. -- Clare Palmer Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This stimulating, unique book could have many uses in academic contexts... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword, by Peter Singer The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue on Perfectionism, by Paola Cavalieri Roundtable I Humanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism, by Cary Wolfe No Escape, by Harlan B. Miller Toward an Agnostic Animal Ethics, by Matthew Calarco Comments on Paola Cavalieri, "A Dialogue on Perfectionism", by John M. Coetzee II Notes on Issues Raised by Matthew Calarco, by John M. Coetzee Pushing Things Forward, by Paola Cavalieri Distracting Difficulties, by Harlan B. Miller On Appetite, the Right to Life, and Rational Ethics, by John M. Coetzee "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings", by Cary Wolfe Between Life and Rights, by Matthew Calarco Notes
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Columbia University Press Animal Lessons
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA valuable resource within continental philosophy and animal studies. -- Brett Buchanan Environmental Philosophy Oliver has made a convincing argument that the animal/human divide is much more complex than a simple dichotomy, and that our relationship with animals should be based on commonality, rather than what divides us. -- Anthony J. Dellureficio Quarterly Review of Biology There is, indeed, a philosophical counter-tradition dawning in the contemporary posthuman zeitgeist, and Oliver's book clears the decks in preparation for a new enlightenment. -- Randy Malamud Journal of Animal Ethics
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Columbia University Press Creaturely Poetics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnimals and the Human Imagination soars. Intellectually exciting, smart, and accessible, this volume will intrigue and revolt, surprise and inspire. The opening overview by Gross is a tour de force and each essay fascinates. Collectively they offer an invitation to think in new ways about what we, perhaps wrongly, call our humanity. I can't imagine a better introduction to the essential new field of critical animal studies. -- Jonathan Safran Foer [A] lively, fascinating, moving book. -- Scott Cowdell Journal of Animal Ethics This is a beautiful, profound, and important book that works through and around long-held and cherished assumptions, both within and without animal studies. -- Lindgren Johnson Journal for Critical Animal StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Creaturely Bodies Part 1 The Inhumanity of Literature 1. Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained: The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species 2. Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding's The Inheritors 3. The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales Part 2 The Inhumanity of Film 4. Cine-Zoos 5. Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman 6. Werner Herzog's Creaturely Poetics Conclusion: Animal Saintliness Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Thinking Animals
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWeil maps the theoretical history of animal studies while also setting a course for future studies. She makes challenging theoretical arguments accessible and inviting. The framework of ethics also offers a framework for abstract discussion that should include even those without deep theoretical knowledge into the conversation. -- Teresa Mangum, director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa From J.M. Coetzee and Bill Viola to Virginia Woolf and Sam Taylor-Wood, Kari Weil plumbs our thick entanglements with non-human animals as companions, as abjected others, as subjects of grief and mourning-those dense contact zones in which art and literature may well 'think' non-human animals better, or at least more patiently, than theory and philosophy. Anyone interested in love, life, and death across species will want to read this book. -- Cary Wolfe, author of Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and the Posthumanist Theory Kari Weil's book is a deeply felt and keenly thought engagement with key philosophical questions animating the exploding scholarly world of 'animal studies.' In this graciously written and eminently approachable text, Weil has created a book that will stimulate seasoned scholars and beginning students alike to take up the twenty-first century challenge of taking animals seriously across all realms of academia. This book belongs on bookshelves, and syllabi for courses in philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, ecology, animal science, and biology. It takes a very good scholar indeed to make such 'challenging issues underpinning our moral, aesthetic, and philosophical relations with animals seem so compelling and clear without in the least simplifying them. Highly recommended. -- Jane Desmond, author of Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World Providing an accessible overview and casting new eyes on familiar literature, Weil makes a significant contribution to animal studies and critical theory... Recommended. Choice engaging -- Chris Wilbert Radical PhilosophyTable of ContentsPreface: Thinking Animals Acknowledgments Part I: Why Animal Studies Now? 1. A Report on the Animal Turn 2. Seeing Animals Part II: Pet Tales 3. Is a Pet an Animal? Domestication and Animal Agency 4. Gendered Subjects/Abject Objects: Man(n)'s Best Friend 5. Dog Love/W(o)olf Love Part III: Grieving Animals 6. A Proper Death 7. Thinking and Unthinking Animal Death: Temple Grandin and J. M. Coetzee Part IV: Ethical Betises 8. Animal Liberation or Shameless Freedom "And Toto Too": Animal Studies, Posthumanism, and Oz Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Animal Rights Debate
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume does an excellent job of contrasting the welfarist and rights positions their competing claims, and possible weakness therein. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: What This Book Is and Is Not About 1. The Abolition of Animal Exploitation, by Gary L. Francione 2. A Defense of Broad Animal Protectionism, by Robert Garner 3. A Discussion Between Francione and Garner Index
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Columbia University Press Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life 2. Postmodernism and Justice 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Use and Disadvantages of Nietzsche for Life 2. Postmodernism and Justice 3. "Later here signifies never": Derrida on Animals 4. Animal Rights and the Evasions of Postmodernism 5. Toward a Nonanthropocentric Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitanism and Veganism Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Being Animal
Book SynopsisConducting the first systematic examination of the place of animals in scholarly and popular thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects simultaneously a part of nature and human society.Trade ReviewBeing Animal is a wonderful and most welcomed book in which noted author Anna Peterson convincingly argues that, "The separation between nature and animals is both strange and destructive." Animals, domesticated and wild, are not 'Others', and human constructed boundaries that invariably trump our interests over theirs put us on a very slippery slope that leads us away from whom other animals really are and what they want and need from us. The safety, well-being, and very lives of individual animals count and these beings must be factored into decisions that center more on holistic and broader environmental matters. -- Marc Bekoff, author of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (with Jessica Pierce) and editor of Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation In this provocative and beautifully written book, Anna L. Peterson challenges us to think about real animals, not abstractions of them, as part of nature and, therefore, as a necessary consideration for a complete environmental ethic and theology. For too long, environmental and animal ethicists, philosophers and theologians have been taking different paths, rarely interacting directly with each other. Peterson calls for an alternative nature ethic, one that is holistic and includes serious consideration of animals. As she claims and supports through carefully researched examples, and a fascinating reinterpretation of Marx, nonhuman animals are the 'proletariat of environmental thought' and as such they 'demand and embody the negation of human exceptionalism.' Peterson makes a powerful contribution to environmental and animal ethics, building a necessary bridge between these two natural allies. -- Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, author of The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals [A]n excellent introduction to the issues surrounding animal rights... Peterson weaves clear, down-to-earth writing with extensive knowledge of the philosophical debates in animal rights... Engaging, stimulating, and well written... Quarterly Review of Biology Marvelous and insightful. Journal of Society and Animals Being Animal offers many important contributions to the current debate. It is thought-provoking and is an important book for both environmental and animal ethics. -- Andrew Woodhall Ethical Theory and Moral PracticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Animals and Nature 2. Animals in Environmental Perspective 3. Animal Ethics 4. Wild Animals 5. Domesticated Animals 6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground 8. Being Animal Notes Bibliography Index
£78.20
Columbia University Press With Dogs at the Edge of Life
Book SynopsisRethinking what it means for dogs and humans to live together in the twenty-first century, taking us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that sees the world in a radically different way.Trade ReviewIn three lively and beautifully written movements, Colin Dayan offers a memorable tour de force that threads together memoir and an analysis of the deprivations of life, human and nonhuman and human with nonhuman, that so pervasively characterize our neoliberal world-historical moment. Intelligent and moving, With Dogs at the Edge of Life is an extraordinary book, a courageous and compelling intermingling of arresting cultural critique and autobiographical reflections of a life lived in the company of canines. -- David L. Clark, McMaster University Colin Dayan has again produced a probing and brilliant examination of that long 'history of extermination masked by the veneer of enlightenment.' Always writing with justice in mind, Dayan's consideration of our relationship with dogs yields a complex meditation on humanity and life's uncertain possibilities. Beautiful, 'more than just another dog story,' as only Dayan could write it. -- Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara Whether openly acknowledged or not, we are all in relationships with dogs-as companions, as lovers, as protector and protected. Some relationships are marked by fear, perhaps hatred. Most are contradictory, many escape description. In her poetic, political, autobiographical homage to life and death with dogs, Dayan helps us stay with them as we traverse treacherous edges. We are fortunate to have so gifted an interpreter and loving a guide. -- Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy and Ethics and Animals In an inimitable mode of testimony and confession, Colin Dayan argues that relations with dogs, from the southern United States to Turkey, structure violence, vulnerability, and antagonism. Extending her work on the physical exploration of unnameable states, Dayan shows how bonds with dogs uniquely condition the creation of social value. And I say that as a cat person. -- Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine Stimulating and lyrical... intellectually fierce reading for philosophically minded readers, especially dog lovers. Kirkus Reviews Erudite and imaginative as the book asks why only members of our species get to be persons... Boston Review Emotionally and intellectually challenging, the volume boasts a rich, resonant message: Not everyone sees the dog the same. American Kennel ClubTable of ContentsPreface By Way of Beginning I. Like a Dog 1. Dogs and Light 2. Back Talking Like I Did 3. They Killed My Dog II. When Law Comes to Visit 4. Dead Dogs 5. Speaking About Extinction 6. Fable for the End of a Breed III. Pariah Dogs 7. Through the Eyes of Dogs 8. If I Sense the Beauty Coda Notes Acknowledgments Index
£58.77
Columbia University Press The Question of the Animal and Religion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith this highly original and exciting book, Aaron S. Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection. Beautifully written, this book has to be read by anyone with an interest in the study of religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron S. Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration of the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in. -- J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A leading young scholar in the emerging field of animal studies, Gross reveals the deep binaries around which most dominant religious worldviews, as well as the Enlightenment-vectored study of religion, have always revolved-human/animal, subject/object, culture/nature, self/other. Without a radical surrender of these divisions, which render animals as but 'a foil and shadow of the human world,' no legitimate theorizing about religion can take place. Nor is any true religious life possible. Echoing two heartbreaking cries to heaven, separated by eighteen hundred years-the plea of a calf seeking refuge from kosher slaughter in the robes of Rabbi Judah the Prince and the screams of cattle half-butchered but still alive in the now-infamous 'kosher' meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa-this work makes its own unforgettable plea. Do we have the courage to sacrifice sacrifice itself? There will be no getting around this book. -- Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a significant contribution to both the larger field of animal studies and the smaller subdiscipline of animal studies in religion. This is in part because Aaron S. Gross's case study on the brutal and systematic animal cruelty at a kosher-meat-producing company is so important, and especially because Gross's is the first work in animal studies in religion to present such a thorough methodological approach. -- Barbara K. Darling, Wheaton College The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a crucial contribution to the emerging field of animals and religion. As of today, I cannot name another study that has specifically analyzed the thinking of the foundational theorists of religious studies such as Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and J.Z. Smith in regard to animals. -- Barbara Rossetti Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of the Animal and Religion persuasively demonstrates the need to extend our understanding of religion beyond the human drama to include, as Gross insists, the drama of living itself. This book deserves to be taken seriously. Reading Religion Gross's book marks a welcome and important step in bringing animal studies to the study of religion, and religion to animal studies. -- Katharine Mershon Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification 2. The Event and Response 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press The Question of the Animal and Religion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith this highly original and exciting book, Aaron S. Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection. Beautifully written, this book has to be read by anyone with an interest in the study of religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron S. Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration of the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in. -- J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A leading young scholar in the emerging field of animal studies, Gross reveals the deep binaries around which most dominant religious worldviews, as well as the Enlightenment-vectored study of religion, have always revolved-human/animal, subject/object, culture/nature, self/other. Without a radical surrender of these divisions, which render animals as but 'a foil and shadow of the human world,' no legitimate theorizing about religion can take place. Nor is any true religious life possible. Echoing two heartbreaking cries to heaven, separated by eighteen hundred years-the plea of a calf seeking refuge from kosher slaughter in the robes of Rabbi Judah the Prince and the screams of cattle half-butchered but still alive in the now-infamous 'kosher' meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa-this work makes its own unforgettable plea. Do we have the courage to sacrifice sacrifice itself? There will be no getting around this book. -- Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a significant contribution to both the larger field of animal studies and the smaller subdiscipline of animal studies in religion. This is in part because Aaron S. Gross's case study on the brutal and systematic animal cruelty at a kosher-meat-producing company is so important, and especially because Gross's is the first work in animal studies in religion to present such a thorough methodological approach. -- Barbara K. Darling, Wheaton College The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a crucial contribution to the emerging field of animals and religion. As of today, I cannot name another study that has specifically analyzed the thinking of the foundational theorists of religious studies such as Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and J.Z. Smith in regard to animals. -- Barbara Rossetti Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of the Animal and Religion persuasively demonstrates the need to extend our understanding of religion beyond the human drama to include, as Gross insists, the drama of living itself. This book deserves to be taken seriously. Reading Religion Gross's book marks a welcome and important step in bringing animal studies to the study of religion, and religion to animal studies. -- Katharine Mershon Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification 2. The Event and Response 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Eat This Book
Book SynopsisA provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.Trade ReviewWitty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface A Sort of Aperitif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors d'Oeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography
£47.50
