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  • Should I be a Vegetarian?
    Neil Paul Cummins
    The author has been a pescetarian for 20 years. In this book he reflects on the reasons why he became a pescetarian by considering a range of reasons why one might want to become a vegetarian, a pescetarian or a vegan. The main themes covered are the belief that it is not right to eat animals, the belief that eating meat is bad for one’s health, the belief that eating meat resu...
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    11,91 €

  • The Progressive Left Centre Animal Lover Legacy
    L. I. Iles
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    18,29 €

  • Beyond Animal Rights
    Tony Milligan
    Issues to do with animal ethics remain at the heart of public debate. In Beyond Animal Rights, Tony Milligan goes beyond standard discussions of animal ethics to explore the ways in which we personally relate to other creatures through our diet, as pet owners and as beneficiaries of experimentation. The book connects with our duty to act and considers why previous discussions h...
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    161,25 €

  • The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
    E. P. Evans / EPEvans
    Can an Animal Commit a Crime?This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing di...
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    36,21 €

  • Arguments about Animal Ethics
    Greg Goodale
    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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    148,41 €

  • International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty
    Animal abuse as a predictor of abuse against humans has been documented extensively. Society’s ever-rising violence has prompted experts to ask what alternatives are available to identify the early signs and stop the cycle. The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research, and Application is the authoritative, up-to-date compendium covering the historica...
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    56,54 €

  • The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
    E.P. Evans / E.PEvans
    This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of s...
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    21,88 €

  • Animal Rights
    Clifford Sherry
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    82,08 €

  • Confronting Animal Abuse
    Piers Beirne
    Confronting Animal Abuse presents a powerful examination of the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it. Piers Beirne, a leading scholar in the growing field of green criminology, explores the heated topic of animal abuse in agriculture, science, and sport, as well as what is known, if anything, about the potential for animal assault to lead to inter-human...
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    62,48 €

  • Confronting Animal Abuse
    Piers Beirne
    Confronting Animal Abuse presents a powerful examination of the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it. Piers Beirne, a leading scholar in the growing field of green criminology, explores the heated topic of animal abuse in agriculture, science, and sport, as well as what is known, if anything, about the potential for animal assault to lead to inter-human...
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    169,20 €

  • Animal Liberation
    Peter Singer
    'A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals--and, ultimately, at ourselves.' -- Chicago TribuneSince its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of 'speciesism'--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and elim...
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    14,23 €

  • The Wounded Animal
    Stephen Mulhall
    In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee’s lectures were published in 1999 as The Lives of Animals, and reappeared in 2003 as part of his...
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    68,11 €

  • The Obligation And Extent Of Humanity To Brutes
    William Youatt
    ''The Obligation and Extent of Humanity to Brutes: Principally Considered with Reference to the Domesticated Animals'' is a book written by William Youatt in 1839. The book explores the ethical responsibility humans have towards animals, particularly domesticated ones. Youatt argues that humans have a moral obligation to treat animals with kindness and respect, and that this ob...
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    31,20 €

  • Deer Companions
    Thomas Lee Boles
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    18,04 €

  • Deer Companions
    Thomas Lee Boles
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    32,14 €

  • Committed
    Dan Mathews
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    15,52 €

  • What If?
    Christy Clarke
    In What If?: Contemplations of an Undergrad, author Christy Clarke has compiled several of her most passionate beliefs and contemplations. Beginning with a bit of insight into the author’s personality and reasons for writing this book, Clarke then delves into the debate between science and religion, and offers an explanation of her own personal ontology. However, the primary fo...
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    16,43 €

  • Snowshoes And Sledges
    Kirk Munroe
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,35 €

  • In Beaver Cove And Elsewhere
    Miss Matt Crim
    A collection of stories or anecdotes set in Beaver Cove and other locations.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s ...
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    37,76 €

  • An Earth Divided
    Share Bond
    An Earth Divided: Crucified For Caring reveals the truth about the imbalance in the world where those that are cruel to animals and exploit the environment get off easy and those that fight to protect the Earth and her inhabitants are crucified. Examples and praise are given to those that have succeeded and how they accomplished their goals, regardless of the huge obstacles th...
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    23,33 €

  • The Story of Emily the Cow
    Bovine Boddhisatva is the story of Emily the cow that escaped from the slaughterhouse in 1995. 3 ...
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    23,14 €

  • Every Living Creature
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    Before 'New Age' there was 'New Thought,' a philosophy that sought God through metaphysics and was wildly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American mystic and bestselling author RALPH WALDO TRINE (1866-1958) was one of the most influential writers on New Thought principles, and here, in this 1899 book, he explains that how humanity behaves toward its fellow cr...
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    18,95 €

  • Squirrels And Other Fur-Bearers
    John Burroughs
    Squirrels And Other Fur-Bearers is a non-fiction book written by John Burroughs, an American naturalist and essayist, and was first published in 1875. The book is a collection of essays that explore the lives and habits of various animals that have fur, including squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, and skunks. Burroughs describes the different species of squirrels found in North Ame...
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    29,20 €

  • When Bulls Cry
    Michael A. Ogorzaly / Michael AOgorzaly
    When Bulls Cry: The Case Against Bullfighting is, as the title suggests, a work that puts the bullfight on trial and finds it guilty of extreme brutality and cruelty to animals. This is no legal brief, however. It is written from an historian’s point of view. Michael A. Ogorzaly has researched the bullfight, from its origins to the present, and with this book he exposes the rot...
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    23,26 €

  • Sacrifice
    Arnold Arluke / Linda Birke
    The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. The authors provide a rich analysis of complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in the political and scientific culture of the United States and the United Kingdom. By understanding the interplay of the groups, the authors view the experimental controversy as an o...
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    29,32 €

  • Empty Cages
    Tom Regan
    Described by Jeffrey Masson as ’the single best introduction to animal rights ever written,’ this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of ’humane treatment’ favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty. ...
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    39,18 €

  • Animals, politics and morality
    Robert Garner
    This is an extensively re-written, comprehensive and up-to-date second edition of a well-regarded and much cited text on the politics and philosophy of animal protection. ...
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    29,33 €

  • American Big Game In Its Haunts
    George Bird Grinnell
    American Big Game In Its Haunts is a book written by George Bird Grinnell, an American anthropologist, historian, and naturalist. The book is a comprehensive guide to big game hunting in North America, covering the habits, habitats, and behavior of various species of big game animals found in the region. The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a specific spe...
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    36,26 €

  • Animal Philosophy
    Animal Philosophy is the first text to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought. A collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question, it brings together contributions from the following key Continental thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Ferry, Cixous, and Irigaray. Each re...
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    64,10 €

  • Animal Gospel
    Andrew Linzey
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    28,23 €


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