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  • The Creative Animal
    Roberto Marchesini
     This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations and as a source of innovations and inventions. Creativity is a fundamental resource for the individual who always has a leading role in conduct. To explain creativity, the book focuses on the concept of animal subjectivity, providing a new explana...
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    47,61 €

  • After the Forests
    Nikki Savvides
    The experience of being charged at by a bull elephant is one of both abject fear and sublime wonder: fear at the sight of tusks and hulking body powering towards you matched with wonder in the presence of such strength, beauty and intelligence. But not all of Dr. Nikki Savvides’ experiences working with captive elephants were frightening. Most were exciting and thought-provokin...
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    24,99 €

  • Wild Diplomacy
    Baptiste Morizot / Catherine Porter
    Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls 'diplomacy with living beings.'...
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    121,45 €

  • Derecho sintiente.
    Padilla Villarraga Andrea
    El tratamiento que el derecho dominante les ha dado a los animales no humanos -como cosas en propiedad- está siendo cuestionado a la luz de consideraciones éticas, políticas y culturales que abogan por el reconocimiento de derechos a los animales, entre otras formas de protección de sus intereses. El derecho judicial latinoamericano no ha sido ajeno a este cambio. Un promedio d...
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    19,24 €

  • Calcário
    Alberto Ortenblad
    Este é mais um livro nomeado a partir de uma rocha – o calcário, que acho estranho por sua forma indefinida e sua afinidade com a água. Desta vez, há poucas histórias sobre montanhas, e nenhuma dela é calcárea.Achei que seria interessante apresentar relatos de terceiros. São três – uma carta, um argumento e um discurso, todos eles célebres: do chefe indígena Touro Sentado, do p...
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    15,08 €

  • Human/Animal Relationships in Transformation
    The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions. Human/animal relationships are in transformation and understanding the nature of this process is crucial for all those who believe that the enlargement of moral and legal recognitio...
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    47,17 €

  • The Commodification of Farm Animals
    Sophie Riley
    This book examines how the developments in veterinary science, philosophy, economics and law converged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to entrench farm animals along a commodification pathway. It covers two neglected areas of study; the importance of international veterinary conferences to domestic regimes and the influence of early global treaties that deal...
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    47,98 €

  • The Spark Day Poems
    His Person / Quilliam Horace Flint
    Spark Day celebrates the beauty, goodness, and heart that we have the chance to cultivate with each decision we make. Little decisions, like whether to plant seeds or not bother, whether to smile and nod to passersby or remain aloof in our own world, whether to use a plastic straw or forego it to help ensure less dangerous plastic pollution corrupts our environment and those w...
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    24,20 €

  • Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War
    Matthew Leep
    Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.In Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War, Matthew Leep develops a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, this book...
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    41,08 €

  • ’I Can’t Watch Anymore’
    Julie Taylor
    ’Catalogues what happens to sport horses in plain sight ... should be compulsory reading for all of us who care about horses.’ - Professor Paul McGreevy BVSc, PhD, FRCVS; author, Equine BehaviourPassionate, yet rigorous and meticulously researched, this eye-opening book holds equestrian sport up to Olympic standards and finds it sadly wanting.Doping agents that used to cost Oly...
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    16,11 €

  • O Mistério Da Capivara
    Abc Juju / Juju Abc
    Neste livro você encontra aventura, emoção e mistério. De repente todos os animais do Pantanal somem. É dever da Capivara e de sua amiga encontrar t ...
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    14,71 €

  • Livestock’s Longer Shadow
    Tim Bailey
    Livestock’s Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its kind since Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines (1964). Most people have little idea how eating animal-based foods harm animals, our health and our planet. We want to believe the animals we eat do not suffer pain, injury, live good lives and eating them is a trade-off for the care we afford them. We accept the illnesse...
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    39,90 €

  • Animales:
    Autores Varios
    Si bien el interés por la consideración moral que corresponde a los animales es tan antiguo como la especulación filosófica en Occidente, a partir de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo pasado el mismo ha crecido exponencialmente. Este libro presenta una muestra de la producción teórica desarrollada en este campo desde la filosofía moral liberal, la teoría política, el derecho...
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    20,28 €

  • We Walk Beside You Book 2
    Sandra Mendelson
    Through the vehicle of telepathy, Sandra Mendelson provides us with animal guidance as a powerful tool for our daily lives. For the past decade, Sandra has channeled and communicated with thousands of animals from over 85 species of the land, sea and air. Her first book and deck of message cards -- We Walk Beside You: Animal Messages for An Awakening World (2017) --took home th...
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    22,14 €

  • Ecolibrium
    Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri / Al-Hafiz B.AMasri / Mehran Banaei / Nadeem Haque
    Ecolibrium: The Sacred Balance in Islam presents the precepts and applications of a totally rational belief system where the distinction between religion and secularism is meaningless. The book demonstrates that the optimal solution to our mounting socio-environmental problems is achievable if only we were to return to an integrated way of thinking and living-of indeed organizi...
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    32,14 €

  • Becoming Vegan For Health And The Environment
    Anthea Peries
    Becoming Vegan For Health And The Environment: Plant-Based Veganism Guidebook For BeginnersBalanced View Of The Benefits & Risks Of Being VegetarianABOUT THIS BOOKThis book is for those who may be sitting on the fence about becoming a vegan for health reasons, perhaps?, Or are you a beginner or a seasoned vegan already?The book provides a balanced view of the benefits and pitfa...
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    22,21 €

  • Ethics and Animals
    Lori Gruen
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    141,27 €

  • Vivisection
    Albert Leffingwell
    A message against cruelty to animal, a plea against vivisection! Albert Leffingwell was a noted American physician, social reformer, and vocal advocate for vivisection reform. His books helped to bring light to the cruel abuses of animal experimentation and called for regulation. He was way ahead of his time in his approach to animal welfare. He is indeed an interesting turn-of...
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    9,57 €

  • Vivisection
    Albert Leffingwell
    A message against cruelty to animal, a plea against vivisection! Albert Leffingwell was a noted American physician, social reformer, and vocal advocate for vivisection reform. His books helped to bring light to the cruel abuses of animal experimentation and called for regulation. He was way ahead of his time in his approach to animal welfare. He is indeed an interesting turn-of...
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    17,91 €

  • El loro gris
    Guy Barat
    El loro gris africano ocupa un lugar privilegiado en el corazón de los criadores de aves: es un excelente hablador y un imitador magnífico, tiene un comportamiento activo y su expresividad despierta la simpatía de todos.Si usted desea criar un loro gris, esta es su obra, ya que aquí encontrará todo lo necesario para ocuparse correctamente de su nuevo compañero: cuál es su compo...
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    23,87 €

  • Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism
    Anna Bonus Kingsford
    A Plea for Vegetarianism !Anna Kingsford (née Bonus) was one of the first women to become a physician in England; mystic and poet; feminist; and ardent anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian. She was way ahead of his time in her approach to dietetics. She is indeed an interesting turn-of-the-century writer whose ideas have been greatly influential and whose books are still worth re...
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    20,10 €

  • Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism
    Anna Bonus Kingsford
    A Plea for Vegetarianism !Anna Kingsford (née Bonus) was one of the first women to become a physician in England; mystic and poet; feminist; and ardent anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian. She was way ahead of his time in her approach to dietetics. She is indeed an interesting turn-of-the-century writer whose ideas have been greatly influential and whose books are still worth re...
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    12,31 €

  • Bearing Witness
    Claas Kirchhelle
    This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the  world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines  triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ’factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian...
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    48,00 €

  • Animals in Our Midst
    This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angle...
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    46,39 €

  • Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War
    Matthew Leep
    Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.In Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War, Matthew Leep develops a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, this book...
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    122,10 €

  • Bond LP, The
    Wayne Pacelle
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    24,10 €

  • Some Fantastic Place
    Randy Shields
    Stories about animals and the people who help them: a successful community effort to protect migrating toads, the 1983 protests that ignited the modern day animal rights movement, a kitten rescued from the middle of a busy road, a visit to a factory pig farm. There are also tributes to animal rights philosopher Prof. Tom Regan, singer/pianist/composer (and animal activist) Laur...
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    23,47 €

  • Re/Thinking Chickens
    Elena Lazutkaite
    Re/Thinking Chickens: The Discourse around Chicken Farming in British Newspapers and Campaigners’ Magazines, 1982–2016 has major social relevance as it focuses on one of the most forgotten and yet most exploited farmed animals, chickens, who now have a combined mass exceeding that of all other birds on Earth. Dr Elena Lazutkaitė demonstrates that the planet’s most numerous bird...
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    70,06 €

  • The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
    Anna Feuerstein
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    54,09 €

  • Animal Welfare in China
    Peter J Li
    The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, speculation about the origins of the virus have sparked global curiosity Speculation about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked curiosity about how animals are treated, traded and consumed in China today.In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfa...
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    25,25 €