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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.90
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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: J.R. Hyland
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Publisher: Lantern Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 241.693
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Publication Date: 2000-06
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Reading Level: 126
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Description: From Genesis to Christ, the Bible testifies to God's love and concern for animals. The same self-centeredness that led to the violence and abuse that has marked human relations also caused the abuse and exploitation of animals. The Bible, argues the author, calls upon human beings to stop their violence and abuse of each other and all other creatures. It promises that when they do, the sorrow and the suffering that marks life on Earth will five way to the joy and peace that God ordained at the creation of the world.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3082
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Publication Date: 1995
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it demonstrates that such a focus does not distract from the struggle for women’s rights, but rather contributes to it.
This wide-ranging multidisciplinary anthology presents original material from scholars in a variety of fields, as well as a rare, early article by Virginia Woolf. Exploring the leading edge of the species/gender boundary, it addresses such issues as the relationship between abortion rights and animal rights, the connection between woman-battering and animal abuse, and the speciesist basis for much sexist language. Also considered are the ways in which animals have been regarded by science, literature, and the environmentalist movement. A striking meditation on women and wolves is presented, as is an examination of sexual harassment and the taxonomy of hunters and hunting. Finally, this compelling collection suggests that the subordination and degradation of women is a prototype for other forms of abuse, and that to deny this connection is to participate in the continued mistreatment of animals and women.
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Price: $65.20
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James P. Sterba
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.1
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Publication Date: 1999-09-25
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Reading Level: 390
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Description: This anthology contains numerous up-to-date, well-related readings on animal rights/animal liberation and environmental ethics—in addition to current topics such as ecological feminism, and practical applications. Approaching its subjects through a set of opposing readings shows the strength and weaknesses of various alternative positions. Readings cover the topics of Judeo-Christian Perspectives, Respect for Nature, The Land Ethic/Deep Ecology, Reconciliation and Defense, Social Ecology and Environmental Racism, and NonWestern Religious and Cultural Perspectives. For individuals concerned about the environment and the non-humans who inhabit it.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $18.66
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gary Francione
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 1996-09-03
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Reading Level: 269
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Description: Are 'animal welfare' supporters indistinguishable from the animal exploiters they oppose? Do reformist measures reaffirm the underlying principles that make animal exploitation possible in the first place? In this provocative book, Gary L. Francione argues that the modern animal rights movement has become indistinguishable from a century-old concern with the welfare of animals that in no way prevents them from being exploited. Francione maintains that advocating humane treatment of animals retains a sense of them as instrumental to human ends. When they are considered dispensable property, he says, they are left fundamentally without 'rights.' Until the seventies, Francione claims, this was the paradigm within which the Animal Rights Movement operated, as demonstrated by laws such as the Federal Humane Slaughter Act of 1958.In this wide-ranging book, Francione takes the reader through the philosophical and intellectual debates surrounding animal welfare to make clear the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. Through case studies such as campaigns against animal shelters, animal laboratories, and the wearing of fur, Francione demonstrates the selectiveness and confusion inherent in reformist programs that target fur, for example, but leave wool and leather alone. The solution to this dilemma, Francione argues, is not in a liberal position that espouses the humane treatment of animals, but in a more radical acceptance of the fundamental inalienability of animal rights. Gary L. Francione is Professor of Law and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach Scholar of Law at Rutgers University Law School, Newark. He is the co-director of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center and the author of "Animals, Property, and the Law" (Temple).
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Price: $39.99
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Sale: $19.60
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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: Deborah Blum
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 174
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Publication Date: 1995-12-14
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Reading Level: 334
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Description: The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17 counts of animal cruelty). It is a complex issue, made more difficult by the combative stance of both researchers and animal activists.
In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives a human face to this often caustic debate--and an all-but-human face to the subjects of the struggle, the chimpanzees and monkeys themselves. Blum criss-crosses America to show us first hand the issues and personalities involved. She offers a wide-ranging, informative look at animal rights activists, now numbering some twelve million, from the moderate Animal Welfare Institute to the highly radical Animal Liberation Front (a group destructive enough to be placed on the FBI's terrorist list). And she interviews a wide variety of researchers, many forced to conduct their work protected by barbed wire and alarm systems, men and women for whom death threats and hate mail are common. She takes us to Roger Fouts's research center in Ellensburg, Washington, where we meet five chimpanzees trained in human sign language, and we visit LEMSIP, a research facility in New York State that has no barbed wire, no alarms--and no protesters chanting outside--because its director, Jan Moor-Jankowski, listens to activists with respect and treats his animals humanely. And along the way, Blum offers us insights into the many side-issues involved: the intense battle to win over school kids fought by both sides, and the danger of transplanting animal organs into humans.
"As it stands now," Blum concludes, "the research community and its activist critics are like two different nations, nations locked in a long, bitter, seemingly intractable political standoff....But if you listen hard, there really are people on both sides willing to accept and work within the complex middle. When they can be freely heard, then we will have progressed to another place, beyond this time of hostilities." In The Monkey Wars, Deborah Blum gives these people their voice.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $3.00
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Manufacturer: Epic Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert X. Leeds
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Publisher: Epic Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 817
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: A couple sets out with a dream to reform the pet care industry. The true story of their struggle to obtain financing and the intrigue and betrayals they experienced. On the verge of success with a half billion-dollar reward, only McDonald's lawyers would seek to destroy their dream. A story of love, devotion, loyalty, betrayal, and final vindication!
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $69.39
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Manufacturer: Paragon House Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jon Wynne-Tyson
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Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 1988-09
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Reading Level: 436
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $22.02
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Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: The Animal Studies Group
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2006-04-24
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. Humans kill animals for food, for pleasure, to wear, and even as religious acts, yet despite the ubiquity of this killing, analyzing the practice has generally remained the exclusive purview of animal rights advocates. "Killing Animals" offers a corrective to this narrow focus by bringing together the insights of scholars from diverse backgrounds in the humanities, including art history, anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, literary studies, and geography.With killing representing the ultimate expression of human power over animals, the essays reveal the complexity of the phenomenon by exploring the extraordinary diversity in killing practices and the wide variety of meanings attached to them. They examine aspects of the role of animals in human societies, from the seventeenth century to the present day: their cultural manifestations, and how they have been represented. Topics of this title include: hunting and baiting; slaughter practices and the treatment of feral and stray animals; animal death in art, literature and philosophy; and, even animals that themselves become killers of humans.While many collections originate as a series of separately planned conference papers drawn together only by editorial fiat, the essays that comprise "Killing Animals" were regarded as parts of a larger whole from their inception. The result is a remarkably collaborative, cross-disciplinary work that includes eight individually authored chapters and a collectively written introduction. Rather than attempting to produce a single ethical understanding from their diverse views, however, the group aims instead to demonstrate the value of the wider academic study of the place of animals in human history. The conclusion to "Killing Animals" takes the form of a discussion among the eight contributors, with each expanding upon issues raised earlier in the book.
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Price: $15.99
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Sale: $15.96
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Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Fiona
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Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591
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Publication Date: 2000-02-01
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: This is the true story of Fiona, who for many years has reared and cared for young seals on the Hebridean Isle of Islay. She hopes to raise awareness of threats to these creatures who, despite no scientific evidence, are thought to be responsible for declining salmon numbers. |
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $6.94
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Manufacturer: Island Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wade Davis
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Publisher: Island Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
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Publication Date: 1998-09-01
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Reading Level: 302
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Description: Renowned anthropologist Wade Davis shows us how preserving the diversity of the world's cultures and spiritual beliefs is just as important as preserving our endangered plants, insects, and animals. In this collection of personal essays, Davis tells of dramatic personal adventures during which he visits and often lives with indigenous communities in the remote regions of the world. He offers reports of toad-smoking shamanistic journeys in the Amazon forests, tracking an elusive cloud leopard in the mountains of Tibet, and a soulful lament for the lost American buffalo. Although he has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones, Davis has far more integrity. His stories are not in service to self-glorification, but rather to one resounding theme: If there is one lesson I have drawn from my travels, it is that cultural and biological diversity are far more than the foundation of stability; they are an article of faith, a fundamental truth that indicates the way things are supposed to be.... There is a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills, and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important challenge of our times. --Gail Hudson
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