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Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
by Bob Torres  Publisher Comments Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles andandmdash;once they stop laughingandmdash;youand#39;ll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a...
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Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food
by Gene Baur Publisher Comments Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates — for both humans and animals alike — in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs,...
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No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations
by David S. Wilcove Publisher Comments Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread...
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Animals and Why They Matter
by Mary Midgley Synopsis In Animals and Why They Matter, Mary Midgley examines the barriers that our traditions have erected between human beings and animals, and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within...
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Endangered Species Recovery: Finding the Lessons, Improving the Process
by Tim Clark Publisher Comments Endangered Species Recovery presents case studies of prominent species recovery programs in an attempt to explore and analyze their successes, failures, and problems, and to begin to find ways of improving the process. It is the first effort to engage...
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Defending Animal Rights
by Tom Regan Synopsis Presents a multifaceted discussion of some responses to the question, "Do animals have rights?"...
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Dominion
by Matthew Scully Publisher Comments "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." -...
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The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
by Peter Singer Publisher Comments Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it...
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The Animals Are Our Brothers and Sisters: Why Animal Experiments Are Misleading and Wrong
by Werner Hartinger Synopsis Respected surgeon and medical doctor Werner Hartinger investigates the claims and counterclaims concerning experimentation on animals. Through meticulous analysis he comes to the conclusion that animal experiments are not only unnecessary, but that the...
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No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species
by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments Nearly every species that has lived on earth is extinct. The last of thedinosaurs was wiped out after a Mount Everest-sized meteorite slammedinto the earth 65 million years ago. The great flying and marine reptiles areno more. Before humans crossed the...
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Building an Ark: 101 Solutions to Animal Suffering (Solutions Project)
by Ethan Smith Publisher Comments Building an Ark: 101 Solutions to Animal Sufferingis a first-of-its-kind, inspiring look at practical solutions to the impact humans have on animals and the natural world. Factory farms, habitat destruction, animal product testing, the abuse and neglect...
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100 Animals to See Before They Die
by Nick Garbutt Publisher Comments Marking a new departure for Bradt, this full color, large format title builds on the brand’s reputation for ethical travel and conservation, presenting a compendium of 100 of the world’s most endangered mammals in association with ZSL –...
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Watching, From the Edge of Extinction
by Beverly Peterson Stearns Synopsis In this mesmerizing series of interviews with dedicated people who work to save endangered species throughout the world, an alarming truth emerges: the obstacles of human politics, greed, corruption, folly, and hypocrisy can present as much danger to a...
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Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals
by Karen Dawn Publisher Comments The animal rights movement has reached a tipping point. No longer a fringe extremist cause, it has become a social concern that leading members of society endorse and young people embrace. From Michael Vick's dog fighting scandal to the incredible...
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
by Elizabeth Hess 
Powells.com Staff Pick This compassionate biography explores a fascinating character and an important story, beautifully illustrating the life of the mischievous chimpanzee who was the subject of a language experiment in the '70s. Both hopeful and sad, this moving account...
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Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir
by Dan Mathews Publisher Comments Committed is a bold, offbeat, globe-trotting memoir that shows how the most ridiculed punching bag in high school became an internationally renowned crusader for the most downtrodden individuals of all -- animals. This irresistibly entertaining book...
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The Scalpel and the Butterfly
by Deborah Rudacille Publisher Comments An engrossing and eloquent study of the history and ethics of animal experimentation The heart of a pig may soon beat in a human chest. Sheep, cattle, and mice have been cloned. Slowly but inexorably scientists are learning how to transfer tissues...
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Great Ape Project : Equality Beyond Humanity (93 Edition)
by Paolo (ed.) Cavalieri Publisher Comments A compelling and revolutionary work that calls for the immediate extension of our human rights to the great apes. The Great Ape Project looks forward to a new stage in the development of the community of equals, whereby the great apes-chimpanzees...
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Brutal Kinship
by Michael Nichols Publisher Comments Brutal Kinship explores the relationship between humankind and its closest relative, the chimpanzee, presenting these extraordinary animals in the wild, in captivity, and in sanctuaries created expressly for their protection. In his revealing photographs...
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The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
by Peter Heller Publisher Comments For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors, veteran adventure writer Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission to stop illegal...
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