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  • Advocates for Animals
    Lori B Girshick / Lori B. Girshick / Lori BGirshick
    With over 65 percent of households having a pet, and Americans spending over $60 billion on them each year, it’s a proven statistic that Americans love animals. Public opinions consistently show we favor compassion for all animals. Animal welfare, rights, and protection is one of the most popular issue areas to which individual donors give, and is an area in which people workin...
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    52,98 €

  • The Pet Healer Project
    Sandy Johnson
    The Pet Healer Project is a collection of profiles of internationally known animal healers. From energy healing (Reiki) to small, subtle manipulations and movements (Feldenkrais), these healers work on all animals from alligators to zebras, motivated by one deeply held belief, that life—all life—is precious, that our pets are our families, and that healing is always, always pos...
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    11,24 €

  • The Jungle
    Upton Sinclair
    The Jungle is Upton Sinclair’s scathing indictment of the meat packing industry in the early 1900s. This novel, which follows the Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family in their doomed struggle for survival in the brutal world of the Chicago stock yards, became a bestseller and changed history.  The exposure of the appalling labor conditions and the unsanitary practi...
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    12,07 €

  • VIVISECTION IS A SOCIAL EVIL
    Linden Brough
    A true account of a present day Vivisectionist, backed by beguiled supporters, confronting a Buddhist as the spirit of George Bernard Shaw timelessly illuminates the lost understanding of Morality.It all boils down to Basic Ethics;the Science of Survival.Don't do to another living being,without its consent,what you would not like done to you.There is Nothing Higher than thi...
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    7,69 €

  • Compassion for Animals
    Andrew Linzey
    Comprising a rich variety of quotations from some of the greatest thinkers in the Christian tradition, this new anthology will encourage a more sensitive and compassionate regard for the animal creation. Suitable for use by groups or individuals, Compassion for Animals will become a valuable resource for discussion and worship--whether in church, in school, or in the home. ...
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    16,06 €

  • The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies
    The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies: Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation is an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical writings on the intersectional liberation of nonhuman animals, the environment, and those with disabilities. As animal consumption raises health concerns and global warming causes massive environmental des...
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    114,20 €

  • Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity
    James Brusseau
    While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book, philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at today's philosophy of animal ethics, to an investigation of what we can learn about ourselves i...
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    9,78 €

  • Chasing Coyotes
    Debora Martin
    Chasing Coyotes recounts the stories of residents in many US cities who have encountered coyotes or suffered the consequences of coyote attacks on themselves or their loved ones. These accounts run the gamut from simple sightings near homes, at parks, and on city streets to coyote attacks on humans.In addition to background history on coyotes in urban areas and scientific data ...
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    15,89 €

  • Chasing Coyotes
    Debora Martin
    CHASING COYOTES recounts the stories of residents in many US cities who have encountered coyotes or suffered the consequences of coyote attacks on themselves or their loved ones. These accounts run the gamut from simple sightings near homes, at parks, and on city streets to coyote attacks on humans. In addition to background history on coyotes in urban areas and scientific data...
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    8,61 €

  • Chasing Coyotes
    Debora Martin
    CHASING COYOTES recounts the stories of residents in many US cities who have encountered coyotes or suffered the consequences of coyote attacks on themselves or their loved ones. These accounts run the gamut from simple sightings near homes, at parks, and on city streets to coyote attacks on humans. In addition to background history on coyotes in urban areas and scientific data...
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    19,18 €

  • Animal Property Rights
    John Hadley
    Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal reside. John Hadley argues that both proponents of anima...
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    57,41 €

  • In Your Face
    Chris DeRose
    In Your Face is former actor Chris DeRose’s firsthand account of how he investigated and finally busted some of the most heartless and corrupt federally licensed pet-theft rings in the nation. This is no dry autobiography; it’s a passionate story of personal involvement and commitment. DeRose takes you to the front lines of the fight to show you what direct action on behalf of ...
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    38,51 €

  • De cómo los animales viven y mueren
    Javier Ruiz
    ¡Hakuna matata! La vida de los animales en el planeta no puede considerarse «de película», o al menos no una apta para todos los públicos. Cada año, sesenta mil millones de animales terrestres y un billón (con «b» de barbaridad) de animales marinos son exterminados por el hombre para convertirse en comida o en ropa, o como una forma de diversión.Muchos de nuestros actos cotidia...
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    12,90 €

  • The Political Turn in Animal Ethics
    The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by interrogating some vital questions about this so-called ’political turn’ in animal ethics.. The questions tackled include: What can...
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    172,07 €

  • The Political Turn in Animal Ethics
    The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by interrogating some vital questions about this so-called ’political turn’ in animal ethics.. The questions tackled include: What can...
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    57,22 €

  • Fighting Nature
    Peta Tait
    Throughout the 19th century, animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit natur...
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    26,57 €

  • Goodbye Bad Guys
    Kate J Kuligowski
    By joining together to form an animal cruelty task force in their community, Bernalillo County law enforcement and animal control officers have reduced reported animal cruelty by more than forty percent. The experiences of this compassionate animal abuse task force are both heart-breaking and heart-warming, and present a startling expose of how laws throughout our country have ...
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    17,60 €

  • Eating Vegan in Vegas
    EAting Vegan in Vegas is the first of the new series, Vegan City Guides, intended to help all vegan travelers find the best spots to eat as well as to introduce them to Las Vegas. This new way of helping the vegan traveler find their way around town is to introduce them to the varieties of plant-based activities occurring in Las Vegas, provide some historical perspective on the...
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    7,25 €

  • The Aesthetics of Care
    Josephine Donovan
    In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms suc...
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    226,12 €

  • Screening the Nonhuman
    Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the represe...
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    136,06 €

  • Endangered Species
    Edward Weber
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    172,52 €

  • The Moral Rights of Animals
    Engel
    Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans...
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    166,13 €

  • Christianity and the Rights of Animals
    Andrew Linzey
    Christian concern about how we treat animals has increased strikingly in recent years. More and more Christians are deciding that our attitudes toward animals must change. Here is a book that presents, for the first time, a comprehensive and well-argued theological case for the rights of animals, and offers a challenging critique of our existing insensitivity toward animal life...
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    24,84 €

  • Righteous Porkchop
    Nicolette Hahn Niman
    'Righteous Porkchop is a searing, and utterly convincing, indictment of modern meat production. The book also brims with hope and charts a practical (and even beautiful) path out of the jungle.'--Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food '[A] necessary book--part memoir, part exposé...its reasoned case for healthy and humane farming practices has the s...
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    18,03 €

  • Animals In Human Society
    Daniel Moorehead
    Including the work of 12 authors from institutions such as Colorado State University, Frostburg State University, Michigan State University, Salisbury University, Texas Woman’s University, University of Birmingham, University of California; Irvine, University of California; Merced, and William Jessup University, Rocklin; California, the collection of essays explores the broad r...
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    53,08 €

  • The Speaking Animal
    Alison Suen
    Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal divide by looking at our linguistic differences - how the speaking hum...
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    154,40 €

  • The Speaking Animal
    Alison Suen
    Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal divide by looking at our linguistic differences - how the speaking hum...
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    52,01 €

  • Animal Property Rights
    John Hadley
    Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal reside. John Hadley argues that both proponents of anima...
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    133,64 €

  • Animals and Tourism
    Kevin Markwell
    This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect and aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry. ...
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    59,92 €

  • Animal Rights and Welfare
    Lawrence Baker
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    159,32 €


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