Animals and society

This book draws together, for the first time, the published research on the behaviour, ecology and welfare of elephants living in zoos, circuses, logging camps and other captive environments in a single comprehensive volume.

Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity from Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea: Uncovering Buried Treasures and the Value of the Benthos examines marine benthic habitats around the world that are linked by their physical location at the bottom of the oceans.

Monotheists confessing a loving creator confront nature red in tooth and claw.

Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new.

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought on by human activity and pollutants toxicology and risk assessment of mammal species is becoming increasingly of interest to toxicologists involved in environmental research.

Pressure, stress, and the threat of losing control all have the power to inhibit a tennis player's professional, athletic, and sometimes even everyday performance.

Animal abuse affects everybody working in animal-related industries, and constitutes a significant part of veterinary caseloads and animal shelter work.

The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all.

The Kennel Club's Breed Standards form the basis for judging dogs at all licensed breed shows.

A truly vegan lifestyle is more than just the food you eat, it's the shoes on your feet, the clothes in your wardrobe, the contents of your cupboards and your make-up bag.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400.

Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.

Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.

In Without a Tear Mark H.

Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities.

Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials consists of two cross-referenced parts.

How do we know which snakes are dangerous?

Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.

A landmark publishing achievement on the subject, the new edition of this acclaimed encyclopedia is expanded to two volumes, covering the full range of issues related to animal protection.

Here is an engaging, informative, and no-nonsense look at the everyday situations and issuesand their legal consequencesthat affect dogs and their owners.

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.

Introductions to each chapter explain the issues, as well as the arguments that surround them, and a general introduction to the volume thoroughly explains how to use the book.

'An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security' CHRIS PACKHAMWhy are so many animals facing extinction?

Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Third Edition offers a state-of-the-art overview of hormonally-mediated behaviors, including an extensive discussion of the effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans.

Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere.

Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria is the first full-colour, comprehensive guide to the major natural threats to health in Australia affecting domestic and native animals and humans.

This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids-those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society-including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mothman.

Most people believe we should help others in need; this book argues we should also help starving, wounded and sick wild animals.

Analyzes current philosophical and scientific debates about animal rights and the ethics of eating meat.

First published in 2006, this book provides a synthesis of the developments in marsupial biology, bringing together knowledge scattered throughout the primary literature.

Most livestock in America currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions.

Succinct, highly readable and thought provoking, this important new text is designed to raise awareness of the potential economic impact of companion animals in the UK.

For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants and many other creatures exhibit all kinds of feelings - hope, fear, shame, love, compassion.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.

In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family.

A pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 populated by animals.

"e;Gow has a fire in his belly.

The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence.

'a delightful and funny memoir of her family's crazy life in the English countryside.

Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights.

What are the links between people's beliefs and the foods they choose to eat?

Companion Animal Ethics explores the important ethical questions and problems that arise as a result of humans keeping animals as companions.

For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood.

The publication of Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna nearly 20 years ago introduced the new science of 'reintroduction biology'.

Monotheists confessing a loving creator confront nature red in tooth and claw.

A little optimism goes a long way.

Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before.

The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.