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Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory by Marianne Dekoven Publisher Comments Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add species to race, class,... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - 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 $27.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Do Animals Have Rights? by Alison Hills Publisher Comments In this superbly accessible book, Alison Hills carefully examines the arguments for both sides and defends a practical, liveable idea of the ethics of animals, distinguishing ways in which animals are our equals from ways in which they are not.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer Publisher Comments The book that started a revolution. Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere — inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? by Gary L Francione Publisher Comments Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for... (read more) Your price: $24.50 New - Trade Paper
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Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals by S Wise Publisher Comments Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation by Michael Fox Publisher Comments Veterinarian Dr. Michael Fox examines religion's attitude, especially Christianity, toward the treatment of animals and nature. Fox argues that the world's ecological salvation lies in embracing panentheism, the seed idea within the mystical tradition of... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Putting the Horse Before Descartes: My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals (Animals and Ethics) by Bernard E Rollin Synopsis When philosopher Bernard Rollin was six years old, he visited an animal shelter and was told about unwanted dogs being put to sleep. The event shaped his moral outlook and initiated his concern for how animals were treated. In his irreverent memoir... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $22.95 Sale - Hardcover
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No Animals Were Harmed: The Controversial Line Between Entertainment and Abuse by Peter Laufer Publisher Comments Following the success of The Dangerous World of Butterflies and Forbidden Creatures, investigative journalist Peter Laufer returns with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at SeaWorld by... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Empty Cages by Tom Regan Synopsis This shocking expose dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates portrayed by the media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of human treatment favored by animal exploiters, and explain why exisiting laws function to legitimize institutional... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred Cows and Golden Geese by C Ray Greek Publisher Comments Cancer has long been cured in mice but not in people. Why? Successful laboratory treatments and cures for one species don't necessarily result in cures for humans. But, because practice has become economically entrenched within medical industry, animal... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 England—where the abuse of animals was routine&... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams Publisher Comments First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates about animal rights. In the two decades since, the book has inspired controversy and heated debate.T he Sexual Politics of Meat argues that what, or more... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement by Wesley J. Smith Synopsis Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term “animal rights” is so often... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unheeded Cry Updtd: Animl Pain-98-P Publisher Comments How can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise? Rollin offers a welcome insight into questions like this in The Unheeded Cry, a rare, reasonable account of the difficult and controversial issues... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River by Steven M Wise Publisher Comments The Cape Fear River runs through Bladen County, North Carolina, population 33,000. On its western bank, in the town of Tar Heel, sits the largest slaughterhouse in the world. Deep below the slaughterhouse, one may find the arrowheads of Siouan-speaking... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights (No-Nonsense Guides) by Catharine Grant Publisher Comments Today animals need protecting more than ever: those bred for laboratories, zoos, and hunting, and also those reared intensively on farms. And out in the wild, animals are losing their habitats to environmental exploitation. Dispelling the myth that the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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AnimalScam: The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights by Kathleen Marquardt Publisher Comments What animal rights groups claim in official press releases and mailings is far from what they actually practice. Of all the money they generate from people who think their support is for the welfare of animals, over 90% of the funds is spent sending out... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $17.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Animal Liberation (Revised) by Peter Singer Publisher Comments ? The Book That Started A Revolution ? Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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