19,731円 This interdisciplinary volume deals with the most painful situations encountered by animals in the wild or under human guardianship. It seeks to illustrate some remarkable cases and present a general picture of the commodification of animals. This volume starts with an exploration of the capture ...

933円 A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffe...

3,840円 Explores the ethics of eating pork without passing judgment on the readerーperfect for meat-eaters with a slightly guilty conscience For fans of Bill Bryson and Michael Pollanーa quirky and lively read that combines current food issues with popular science, history, and anecdotes. First-han...

3,544円 How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the cas...

297円 Giorgio trains a workhorse, Gaudenzia, to race. Most do not believe Gaudenzia will ever be anything more than a workhorse but as Giorgio has forged a bond with the mare he belives in her ability. Giorgio has faith in the mare=s ability to trust people again and to win in the race. So Giorgio race...

18,231円 Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presence...

9,948円 This book introduces the various aspects of international farm animal protection and wildlife conservation through the lenses of food safety and environmental protection law. Bite-sized chapters focus on a wide range of topics from agrobiodiversity, fishing, and aquaculture to pollinators and pes...

1,432円 'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the zookeeper Abu Laith, whose name – loosely translated...

1,432円 In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have developed the sophisticated systems of social organization and behaviour that human beings call 'culture'. Dolp...

1,192円 'Wonderful' Yorkshire Times 'Not just a celebration of these enigmatic creatures, but also a timely alarm bell about their shrinking numbers' The Lady 'Just about every hedgehog fact you could wish to know' Northern Echo Hedgehogs, with their quiet determination and bristling, bumbling ways, are ...

1,287円 How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how ...

1,779円 Get to know the animals of the Kindness Club and discover how Squirrel learns the importance of forgiving others and showing them kindness. This heartwarming story encourages children ages 3-5 to always be kind to one another, through beautiful illustrations and a playful story with an important ...