Animals and society

Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day.

This is the first edited collection devoted entirely to the question of the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant.

No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals.

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 are among the factors that have made our relationship to animals an area of burning interest in contemporary philosophy.

Well-run modern zoos and aquariums do important research and conservation work and teach visitors about the challenges of animals in the wild and the people striving to save them.

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is much evidence of animals displaying what seem to be moral feelings.

Expand your understanding of the natural world with this fact-filled book as you discover how wild animals like elephants, hedgehogs, and geckos are supercharging human innovation.

A comprehensive and authoritative review of the current scientific knowledge of how evolution has shaped the brains of Australian marsupials.

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described asthe history of human ideas about animals.

The first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, arguing that animals have always played a range of roles in human societies.

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today.

The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence.

Birds and bird lore provide a fascinating window onto our social and cultural history, and can tell us much about our changing relationship with the British landscape, our people and society.

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 49 provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field.

The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today''s proliferation of animals in digital networks.

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

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Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals.

In Without a Tear Mark H.

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications.

Exploring the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs, through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and gastronomyPigs unite and divide people, but why?

The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own.

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population.

Having shown us how to master monsters in Edward's Crochet Imaginarium and capture our friends and family in Edward's Crochet Doll Emporium, Kerry Lord is back with patterns for everyone's favourite pups in her new book Edward's Menagerie: Dogs.

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

We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis.

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals?

This pioneering modern classic examines the Islamic principles of kindness and compassion toward animals.

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency.

Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these forms of care.

This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important publications and events.

Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda, Second Edition, provides the most up-to-date research, data, and conservation solutions for the red pandas, Ailurus species.

Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals.

A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.

Penguin Biology is the first broad-based collection of biological and ecological studies of these unique birds to be published since 1975.

Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles, and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people.

Wildlife Conservation in Africa: A Scientific Approach presents comprehensive management strategies for the consumptive and non-consumptive utilization of wildlife across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This is the first book to explore women's leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources.

For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts.

Humankind coexists with every other living thing.

The echidna is one of the world’s most extraordinary creatures.

Expanding on the National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, this book deals specifically with mammals in neuroscience and behavioral research laboratories.

John Fleagle has improved on his 1988 text by reconceptualizing chapters and by bringing new findings in functional and evolutionary approaches to bear on his synthesis of comparative primate data.

A new collection offering provocative and often counterintuitive conclusions on the ethics of meat eatingIn a world of industralized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice?

The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%.

The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity.