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The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict Between Animal Research and Animal Protection
The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict Between Animal Research and Animal Protection
by Deborah Rudacille
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Rudacille provides a history of 150 years of often bitter contention between scientists who use animals in their research for both medical and commercial purposes and those who defend the rights of animals to live free of human exploitation.... (read more)

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Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.)
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.)
by Peter Singer
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Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to... (read more)

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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
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The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with... (read more)

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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
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How can we give animals the best life — for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal... (read more)

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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
by Wayne Pacelle
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A landmark work, The Bond is the passionate, insightful, and comprehensive examination of our special connection to all creatures, written by one of America's most important champions of animal welfare. Wayne Pacelle, the president of the Humane Society... (read more)

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Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy
Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy
by Kathy Rudy
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The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members—animal lovers outside the fray—extremist positions in which... (read more)

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The monkey wars
The monkey wars
by Deborah Blum
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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... (read more)

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Dominion
Dominion
by Matthew Scully
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"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." -... (read more)

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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement
For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement
by Kathryn Shevelow
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“An exceptionally interesting history of the animal protection movement . . . For the Love of Animals is exemplary in every respect.”—The Washington Post Book World In eighteenth-century England—where the abuse of animals was routine&... (read more)

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Very Short Introductions #57: Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions #57: Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction
by David Degrazia
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This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we... (read more)

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Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food
by Gene Baur
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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,... (read more)

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The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble
The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble
by Ingrid Newkirk
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With more than two million members and supporters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the world's largest animal-rights organization, and its founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, is one of the most well-known and most effective... (read more)

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Dominion
Dominion
by Matthew Scully
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"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."--... (read more)

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Animal Rights (History of Issues)
Animal Rights (History of Issues)
by Nick Treanor
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Fulfills some of all of the high school national curriculum standards for social studies, English, world history, U.S. history, science, and health.... (read more)

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Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck, and a Few Turtles
Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck, and a Few Turtles
by Rescue Ink
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The true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger Using their combined 1700 pounds of muscle, Joe, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Eric, Des, Bruce and Robert stop at nothing within the bounds of the law to save animals, be... (read more)

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Vegan, Revised Edition
Vegan, Revised Edition
by Erik Marcus
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With a straightforward, clear approach, Erik Marcus details the health advances, the social advantages, and the ethical progress, with regards to the animals who share our planet, to be achieved from adopting a diet entirely based on plants.... (read more)

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Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer
Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer
by Kerry S. Walters
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For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides a deep understanding of vegetarianism as more... (read more)

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Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
by Bob Torres
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Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing... (read more)

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Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals
Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals
by Paul Watson
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The inspiring adventures of an animal rights hero -- Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and founding member of Greenpeace, has been at the forefront of efforts to stop the for-profit killing of harp seal pups.... (read more)

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Animal Ingredients A to Z
Animal Ingredients A to Z
by E G Smith Collective
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Cultural Writing. ANIMAL INGREDIENTS is the definitive resource guide to food ingredients. With more than 2,000 listings and supplementary chapters on vegan nutrition, books, clothing, beer and wine, you'll be a caring and confident consumer. Originally... (read more)

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