Animals and society

A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.

Fur seals and sea lions are charismatic, large carnivores that engage us with both their skill and playful antics.

A comprehensive natural history of one of Britain's favourite animalsThe badger has for many years occupied a unique place in the British consciousness.

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.

** WINNER OF THE 2023 ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE ** AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** This is our world, as you've never seen it before.

For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind.

People with Animals emphasizes the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take.

Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy.

Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future.

This book discusses whether, and how, coexistence of people and endangered wildlife may be encouraged.

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.

Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human.

Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy''s novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities.

This book explores the role of animals - horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs - in shaping Georgian London.

In Kindred Spirits, Anne Benvenuti visits with individuals and groups working in animal conservation, rescue, and sanctuary programs around the world.

Revealing the impact of civilisation upon our bird life, with particular reference to the species that have come to rely largely on types of habitat greatly modified or actually formed by human action.

London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores the complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world.

Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior.

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Animal behaviour and, as a result, animal welfare are increasingly complex areas of study, with the diversity of the animal kingdom and new research findings ensuring there is no one, easy answer.

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains.

As an age-old metaphor for the sexual chase, the hunt provides a uniquely conflicted site for the representation of masculinity.

'An outstanding book' SpectatorThe story of the short life and tragic death of Bowland Beth - an English Hen Harrier - which dramatically highlights the major issues in UK conservation.

This, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend.

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Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "e;animal question"e;.

Veganism is so much more than what we eat.

We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others.

One of Australia’s most engaging marsupials, the wombat is also one of the most disparaged and least understood.

This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China.

Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history.

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon.

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with ';admiration and empathy' (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals.

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.

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

Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas.

Das brisante Sachbuch zum Thema Rassezucht bei Hunden und KatzenDeutschlands profiliertester Tierpathologe entlarvt das immense Leid, das die Zucht reiner Rassen bei Haustieren vielfach verursacht.

Presenting a new perspective on human animal relations in the ancient Near East, this volume considers how we should understand equids (horses, donkeys, onagers and various hybrids) as animals that are social actors.

Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern vegetarianism in the west, and was to become a reform movement attracting thousands of people.

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

Since it first became known to European scientists and naturalists in 1798, the platypus has been the subject of controversy, interest and absolute wonder.

'A lovely little book .

"e;Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn't put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mindnor will I ever.

Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it?

Erde ist im empathischen Sinn lebendig und ermöglicht Leben.

Behavior of Nonhuman Primates: Modern Research Trends, Volume 5 is a collection of papers on research trends in the study of the various aspects of primate behavior.