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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $21.32
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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: Arnold Arluke
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2006-06-28
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: In "Just a Dog", Arnold Arluke argues that animal cruelty must be understood in terms of social relationships rather than an individual's psychological problem or personality disorder. Arluke situates cruelty in actual situations where groups of people decide, on their own terms, what constitutes the wrongful harm of animals and how best to communicate their understanding to others. He captures how law enforcement agents, shelter workers, humane marketers, the general public, and animal abusers (or neglecters), make sense of animal cruelty. In each case, cruelty's meaning reflects the practical, personal, and ideological concerns of these groups and the wider social and cultural confusion over the nature and significance of animals and their proper treatment. He shows that these divergent definitions are not mere reflections of the social world but are actively created and used by group members to achieve sought-after identities.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $6.50
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lucinda Delaney Schroeder
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.18
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Publication Date: 2006-04-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Selected for the 2007 Amelia Bloomer Project list of recommended feminist literature for young readers For thirty years, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder held an unusual government position: she was one of the handful of women special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In August 1992, she accepted an assignment that forever changed--and endangered--her life. She posed as a big-game hunter in Alaska in order to infiltrate an international ring of poachers out to kill the biggest and best of that state's wildlife.
A Hunt for Justice recounts her dramatic story--a story she was not legally permitted to write about until her retirement in 2004.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.49
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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: Charles Patterson
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Publisher: Lantern Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2002-02
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson, Ph.D., describes disturbing parallels between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The title is taken from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, himself a vegetarian: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times, while the last part of the book profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust. The Foreword is by Lucy Kaplan, a former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $10.36
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Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Petersen
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Publisher: Johnson Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
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Publication Date: 2003-08
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Reading Level: 269
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Description: Natural-history writer David Petersen's Heartsblood is not so much about hunting, although that controversial subject is an important part of the book, as is a lively, deeply intelligent discussion of what it means to be a human animal aware of what lies outside. Petersen suggests that a true engagement with the natural world requires a keen knowledge of its workings--of how water flows, of how animal populations wax and wane--and a recognition of the realities of life and death. An avid fisherman and hunter, Petersen has little patience with the yahoos who blast at anything in sight, those thoughtless persons who have given hunting a bad name. Neither does he suffer lightly those who maintain that hunting is morally wrong, for, he insists, in the absence of natural predators, hunters act as a necessary brake on overpopulation, which can lead only to suffering. He has little use for expensive gear, for GPS systems and top-of-the-line weapons, nor for most hunting magazines, which, he says, cater to just those yahoos with a taste for fancy goodies, and which he deems "greedy and increasingly immoral." With all those peeves and qualifications, it would not be out of place for Petersen to assume a grumpy air. For the most part, however, he does not; he is cordial to those who disagree with his views, which he carefully backs with biological facts, philosophical and anthropological interpretations, and reflections gathered from a half-century's experience in the wild. His book deserves a wide audience, and the ideas within it merit much discussion as thoughtful men and women everywhere do what they can to protect what little is left of nature--a struggle in which hunting, Petersen holds, can play an important part. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $6.35
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Manufacturer: R.A.G.E. Media
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vasu Murti
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Publisher: R.A.G.E. Media
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Dewey Decimal Number: 174
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Publication Date: 2006-01-22
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Reading Level: 84
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Description: "Murti attempts to explore, without religion, one of the most contentious issues of our day: the question of abortion. For as much as the atomic bomb forever altered questions about war and peace, so has abortion forever altered the meaning of human life and our responsibility to it. By creatively and passionately using the universal question of the rights of animals, Murti analyzes the rights of the unborn. The power of his persuasion is not based on one or more bodies of religious thought, but on sentient beings' natural tendency to protect one another." - From the Forword by Carol Crossed, President, Democrats for Life of America
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $59.95
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Manufacturer: Humane Society Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leslie Sinclair::Melinda Merck::Randall Lockwood
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Publisher: Humane Society Press
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Publication Date: 2006-08-31
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Reading Level: 268
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Description: What is the role of the veterinarian in a prosecution for cruelty to animals? This comprehensive introduction to the field is required reading for animal shelter, veterinary, investigative, and law enforcement professionals. In February 2007 Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty won the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) Best General Reference Book: 2006 category and was named Dogwise Best Book of 2006! In March 2007, coauthor Melinda Merck, D.V.M., was profiled in People magazine's "Animal CSI."
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Price: $124.99
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Sale: $92.99
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 636.0896025
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Publication Date: 2008-09-09
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Reading Level: 440
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Description: The recognition of the importance of safe large animal rescue is quickly growing. The prevailing attitude of large animal owners, whose animals are often pets or a large financial investment, is to demand the safe rescue and treatment of their large animals in emergency situations. Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue is a guide for equine, large animal, and mixed animal veterinarians, zoo and wildlife veterinarians, vet techs, and emergency responders on how to rescue and treat large animals in critical situations while maintaining the safety of both the animal and the rescuer. This book is a must have reference for any individual who deals with large animals in emergency situations.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $21.22
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Manufacturer: Harbour Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel Francis::Gill Hewlett
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Publisher: Harbour Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 599.53617743
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Killer whales once had a reputation that was even fiercer than their name. But in 1964 the Vancouver Aquarium obtained its first killer whale, Moby Doll, and discovered that they were not the vicious man-eaters of legend. In January 2002, scientists reunited "Springer," a young orphaned whale found in Puget Sound, with her family in BC. At the same time another lone whale turned up on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The people of Nootka Sound adopted "Luna" as their own. Another rescue was planned to return Luna to his family but this time there so no happy ending. In OPERATION ORCA, award-winning author Daniel Francis gives breadth to the political debate of whether to interfere or let nature take its course.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $13.57
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Manufacturer: Swallow Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Diane L. Beers
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Publisher: Swallow Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.30973
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Publication Date: 2006-07-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Animal rights. Those two words conjure diverse but powerful images and reactions. Some nod in agreement, while others roll their eyes in contempt. Most people fall somewhat uncomfortably in the middle, between endorsement and rejection, as they struggle with the profound moral, philosophical, and legal questions provoked by the debate. Today, thousands of organizations lobby, agitate, and educate the public on issues concerning the rights and treatment of nonhumans. For the Prevention of Cruelty is the first history of organized advocacy on behalf of animals in the United States to appear in nearly a half century. Diane Beers demonstrates how the cause has shaped and reshaped itself as it has evolved within the broader social context of the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial society. Until now, the legacy of the movement in the United States has not been examined. Few Americans today perceive either the companionship or the consumption of animals in the same manner as did earlier generations. Moreover, powerful and lingering bonds connect the seemingly disparate American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of the nineteenth century and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals of today. For the Prevention of Cruelty tells an intriguing and important story that reveals society’s often changing relationship with animals through the lens of those who struggled to shepherd the public toward a greater compassion.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Conari Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephanie Laland::Stephanie Lal
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Publisher: Conari Press
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Edition: A special Guideposts ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 591.5
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Publication Date: 1998-11
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Reading Level: 219
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