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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $19.02
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Manufacturer: Polity
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Garner
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Publisher: Polity
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2005-09-12
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This book is an attempt to lead the way through the moral maze that is our relationship with nonhuman animals. Written by an author with an established reputation in this field, the book takes the reader step by step through the main parameters of the debate, demonstrating at each turn the different positions adopted. In the second part of the book, the implications of holding each position for the ethical permissibility of what is done to animals - in laboratories, farms, the home and the wild - are explained.
Garner starts by asking whether animals have any moral standing before moving on to assess exactly what degree of moral status ought to be accorded to them. It is suggested that whilst animals should not be granted the same moral status as humans, they are worthy of greater moral consideration than the orthodox animal welfare position allows. As a result, it is suggested that many of the ways we currently treat animals are morally illegitimate.
In the final chapter, the issue of political praxis is tackled. How are reforms to the ways in which animals are treated to be achieved? This book suggests that currently dominant debates about insider status and direct action are less important than the question of agency. That is, the important question is not what is done to change the way animals are treated as much as whom is to be mobilised to join the cause.
Students of philosophy, politics and environmental issues will find this an essential textbook.
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Price: $69.99
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Sale: $52.33
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Fraser
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2008-10-03
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: "This is a delightful book, full of interesting aspects of animal welfare. An excellent guide to the academic study of animal welfare science."
Marian Stamp Dawkins, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Understanding Animal Welfare: The Science in its Cultural Context takes a completely fresh and thought-provoking approach. It is essential reading for anyone interested, studying or currently working in the fascinating field of animal welfare science. David Fraser places modern-day welfare issues within their historical framework by tracing the evolving ideas that led to current thinking. He also highlights some intriguing issues relating to the contradiction inherent in the term 'animal welfare science' and the practical problem of how to assess emotional states in animals.
Special features:
* Encompasses ideas from a variety of disciplines to give a broad perspective of the topic.
* Discusses methods of measuring animal welfare and their strengths and limitations.
* Examines contemporary debates and applications of the science to policy issues.
About the author:
David Fraser is one of the pioneers of animal welfare science. He has published widely on animal welfare research, its practical applications, and its philosophical basis. He is currently Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and serves as an advisor to many international organizations.
"... an impressive historical narrative of the genesis and growth of animal welfare as a scientific discipline. ... The book will be invaluable for anyone involved with animal welfare issues on an academic level or those involved with the integration of these principles into current care and handling issues facing agriculture, companion, laboratory, wild, or zoo animals."
Carolyn L. Stull, PhD, Veterinary Medicine Extension,
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
"Fraser offers insights only possible from someone with his considerable experience and understanding."
Dr. Chris Sherwin, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Vicki Hearne
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Publisher: Harpercollins
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.78
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Publication Date: 1991-11
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Reading Level: 303
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Description: Veteran dog trainer Vicki Hearne provides a penetrating examination of the interactions between animals and the human world. "Brilliant, fiery. Hearne captures a hundred nuances of the relation between people and animals. Anyone who likes dogs . . . will like Bandit."--Chicago Sun-Times. Hearne also is the author of Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name and a contributing editor for Harper's.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $35.00
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Manufacturer: Brill Academic Pub
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lyle Munro
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Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2005-03-30
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Reading Level: 218
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Description: Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Responses to this question provide important insights into the much misunderstood animal rights movement and the people in it who challenge the moral orthodoxy that underpins our attitudes towards nonhuman animals. The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming ,bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer.
Social movement theory is used to show how animal rights activists are engaged in the social construction of cruelty as a social problem which they seek to prevent by their intellectual, practical and emotion work in seminal campaigns against cruelty in the United States, England and Australia.
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Price: $23.99
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Sale: $16.31
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Manufacturer: Collins Living
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nicolette Hahn Niman
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Publisher: Collins Living
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Dewey Decimal Number: 636.0832
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Publication Date: 2009-03-01
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Reading Level: 336
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Price: $89.95
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Sale: $71.96
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Manufacturer: CRC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: CRC
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2006-10-04
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Reading Level: 652
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Description: Since its establishment by USDA regulation in the mid-1980s, the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has evolved as the premier instrument of animal welfare oversight within research institutions in the United States. By addressing questions and problems that often confront institutions, The IACUC Handbook, Second Edition provides accurate, succinct answers. It features comprehensive updates for all pertinent federal laws, regulations, and policies. It also contains an expanded survey of IACUC practices from institutions around the nation. With accessible information, this new editionprovides a foundation for those attempting to understand and implement the many and varied responsibilities of these committees.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $14.96
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Manufacturer: Lantern Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Lantern Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.309744
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Publication Date: 2008-03-30
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Reading Level: 174
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Description: Please, Can We Keep the Donkey? features dozens of personal accounts of successful animal adoptions and rescues. These entertaining stories describe rewarding relationships with animals ranging from dogs and cats to birds, a snake, and, of course, a donkey. Meet a rabbit who is an architect, dogs too ugly to pet, an orphaned cat who bonds with an orphaned girl, an unruly dog who brings aid to senior citizens, and many other animals whose lives have changed the people who took them in. These delightful and heartwarming stories of individuals who find each other and bring joy to one another's lives pose the question that one contributor asks: "Who rescued whom?"
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $27.04
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen H. Webb
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 210
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Publication Date: 2002-01-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to "own" other sentient beings in this way.
In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Stephen Webb brings a Christian perspective to bear on the subject of our responsibility to animals, looked at through the lens of our relations with pets--especially dogs. Webb argues that the emotional bond with companion animals should play a central role in the way we think about animals in general, and--against the more extreme animal liberationists--defends the intermingling of the human and animal worlds. He tries to imagine what it would be like to treat animals as a gift from God, and indeed argues that not only are animals a gift for us, but they give to us; we need to attend to their giving and return their gifts appropriately. Throughout the book he insists that what Christians call grace is present in our relations with animals just as it is with other humans. Grace is the inclusive and expansive power of God's love to create and sustain relationships of real mutuality and reciprocity, and Webb unfolds the implications of the recognition that animals too participate in God's abundant grace.
Webb's thesis affirms and persuasively defends many of the things that pet lovers feel instinctively--that their relationships with their companion animals are meaningful and important, and that their pets have value and worth in themselves in the eyes of God. His book will appeal to a broad audience of thoughtful Christians and animal lovers.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Lantern Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Judy McCoy Carman
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Publisher: Lantern Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.5693
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Publication Date: 2003-06
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: This award winning book (One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2003--awarded by Spirituality and Health magazine) is an essential tool for all of you working to protect the environment; to promote world peace; to end world hunger and human rights abuses; to liberate animals from suffering; and to raise planetary consciousness. If you are involved in any one of these causes, then you are contributing automatically to all of them. They are all deeply interconnected, and none can go very far forward without the others. All find their common ground in the ethics of nonviolence, compassion, and reverence for all life. In this book, you will find hope and encouragement for your healing work and your vision of a world at peace. Peace to All Beings reveals the root cause behind the violence and war now being waged against the earth, the animals, and people. The good news is this: When we recognize the root cause and, at the same time, hold fast to our shared visions of planetary peace, we empower ourselves both physically and metaphysically to change the world. This book is a valuable tool for this challenging journey of ours. In it you will find useful facts, inspiring true stories, ageless wisdom from some of our greatest visionaries, meditations, and over seventy prayers. When you buy one for your own use, please consider buying another one or several to give as gifts to spiritual leaders, activists, and anyone who might possibly join us in our work to bring peace to the earth, to humanity, and indeed to all beings.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.72
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508
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Publication Date: 1996-07-17
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Reading Level: 360
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