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The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict Between Animal Research and Animal Protection by Deborah Rudacille Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.) by Peter Singer Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.98 Used - Hardcover
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy by Kathy Rudy Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The monkey wars by Deborah Blum Publisher Comments 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) List Price $119.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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." -... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement by Kathryn Shevelow Publisher Comments 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 Englandwhere the abuse of animals was routine&... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #57: Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David Degrazia Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble by Ingrid Newkirk Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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."--... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Rights (History of Issues) by Nick Treanor Publisher Comments 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) List Price $23.70 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck, and a Few Turtles by Rescue Ink Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Vegan, Revised Edition by Erik Marcus Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer by Kerry S. Walters Publisher Comments 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) List Price $31.95 Your price: $29.55 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals by Paul Watson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Ingredients A to Z by E G Smith Collective Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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