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  • Animal Ethics and Philosophy
    Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent attention largely unexamined.This timely collection of essays brings together new theory and critical perspectives on key topics in animal ethics, foregrounding questions relating to moral st...
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    187,24 €

  • Turning Points in Compassion
    Harold Brown suffered a heart attack at the age of eighteen due to his heavy consumption of animal products.As a cattle farmer he didn't realize that his livelihood could cause so much damage. His extended family of farmers, the local community, youth organizations and TV were telling him one thing: Animal products are good.Harold truly believed he was doing good work, livi...
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    38,80 €

  • The Politics of Species
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    69,89 €

  • Turning Points in Compassion
    'A powerful narrative...makes a compelling case.' -Dr Shannon Brincat, Research Fellow, Griffith University.This inspirational collection of personal stories from many of the most eloquent, passionate and intellectually progressive voices in today’s growing Animal Rights movement challenges widespread perceptions of our relationship with animals and ourselves. With a powerful b...
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    26,32 €

  • Language, Ethics and Animal Life
    A number of factors-new research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology-have made our relationship to animals an area of burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume exp...
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    47,16 €

  • Arguments about Animal Ethics
    Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection. Both sides of the debate are carefully analyzed, as the contributors exam...
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    62,41 €

  • My Best Teachers
    Robert Bresky
    Our World Needs the Best Teachers and Healers... My best teachers were not in the classroom and my best healers were not always in the medical profession. My father and mother taught me things you cannot measure with a test like patience, discipline, and self-reliance. Nurses and doctors labeled my physical and mental impairments and treated them with the best science had to of...
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    27,21 €

  • The Caged Bird and the White Dove
    Jessie Brison
    Love Makes The World Go Around For Birds Too. A Blue Lake near an old Oak tree. With a White Dove setting on a branch far above the reach of human hands, for she know she will love again. ...
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    17,84 €

  • In the Presence of Buffalo
    Daniel Brister
    Very few of the 2.5 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America’s only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd, are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the wanton slaughter of 3,500 of these magnificent animals, solely because they wandered out of delineated confines of the National Park.Author...
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    24,91 €

  • In the Presence of Buffalo
    Daniel Brister
    Very few of the 2.5 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America’s only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd, are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the wanton slaughter of 3,500 of these magnificent animals, solely because they wandered out of delineated confines of the National Park.Author...
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    15,19 €

  • The Ultimate Betrayal
    Hope Bohanec
    Drawing on peer-reviewed research, worker and rescuer testimony, and encounters with the farm animals themselves, The Ultimate Betrayal discusses the recent shift in raising and labeling animals processed for food and the misinformation surrounding this new method of farming. This book explores how language manipulates consumers concepts about sustainability, humane treatment, ...
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    15,85 €

  • The Dogs of Proud Spirit
    Melanie Sue Bowles
    From the author of The Horses of Proud Spirit come more heartwarming tales, this time about the dogs who have found a home at the sanctuary Melanie Bowles runs with her husband, Jim. ...
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    12,89 €

  • The Animal Experimentation Debate
    David E. Newton / David ENewton
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    82,00 €

  • The Politics of Species
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    182,90 €

  • Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs
    Alison Griffiths / David Cruise
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    17,17 €

  • Soul Touched
    Michael James
    'I wish my spirit to be as the wind catchers, soaring, boundless, and free.' Soul Touched is a contemporary collection of insightful poetry and short stories that capture the human experience as well as the healing power of nature. This book explores how humanity is still intertwined with nature and with other people, despite the alienation of modern culture. The collection exa...
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    8,80 €

  • Critical Animal Studies
    Dawne McCance
    Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field. ...
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    121,98 €

  • Bailey the Bear
    Shana Renee Burris
    Bailey the bear takes young readers on a journey everywhere! In this enchanting story, a brazen bear cub sets off on a bold, thrilling adventure to number the stars of the air. Will daring little Bailey the bear succeed in his quest? Or will our young hero uncover more obstacles to count than stars? Follow along with Bailey, on a voyage neither he - nor the reader- will ever f...
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    16,76 €

  • Any Kind of Danger
    Dr Rowan Blogg
    Know the animals, respect the planet, love thy neighbor. Rowan Blogg is an Australian veterinarian of the highest distinction and I greatly admire his professionalism, which I observed for years at close range. In Any Kind of Danger he has extended his work into the environment and moral philosophy by tackling the complex issue of how we exploit animals. In the 19th Century Wil...
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    17,74 €

  • Humans and Other Animals
    Samantha Hurn
    What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals. This book looks at case studies covering blood sports (such ...
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    126,91 €

  • Humans and Other Animals
    Samantha Hurn
    What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity?This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals.This book looks at case studies covering blood sports (such as...
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    38,13 €

  • Strangers to Nature
    Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how...
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    157,98 €

  • Quarterly Essay 45 Us & Them
    Anna Krien
    For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed?In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the choices we face. From pets to the live cattle trade, from apex predators to sci...
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    21,32 €

  • Dogs, Owners of the City
    Laura Lavay N. / Laura Lavayen
    There may be a town called Santa Catalina, but the one in this book is creation of the author. What is real and happens all over the world is the problem of dogs living on the street. They, like human beings, suffer and their life is a bit similar to the homeless people. This is not a beautiful picture and many turn to look the other way as if not looking would avoid feelings o...
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    21,46 €

  • Dogs, Owners of the City
    Laura Lavay N. / Laura Lavayen
    There may be a town called Santa Catalina, but the one in this book is creation of the author. What is real and happens all over the world is the problem of dogs living on the street. They, like human beings, suffer and their life is a bit similar to the homeless people. This is not a beautiful picture and many turn to look the other way as if not looking would avoid feelings o...
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    32,25 €

  • Los Duenos de La Ciudad
    Laura Lavay N. / Laura Lavayen
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    15,18 €

  • Los Duenos de La Ciudad
    Laura Lavay N. / Laura Lavayen
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    22,29 €

  • Zoo Story
    Thomas French
    "This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail."-Rick Bragg, Pulitzer ...
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    23,40 €

  • Ethics and Animals
    Lori Gruen
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    136,46 €

  • Critical Theory and Animal Liberation
    Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or 'left' tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of 'animal rights,' the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first ord...
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    77,39 €


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