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Flashpoint: Addresses of Fur Farms, Animal Research Labs, Slaughterhouses and Lab Animal Breeders for Activists
Flashpoint: Addresses of Fur Farms, Animal Research Labs, Slaughterhouses and Lab Animal Breeders for Activists
by Peter Daniel Young
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Flashpoint is the first directory of animal industry addresses for animal rights activists. Collected in one book are the addresses of most slaughterhouses, registered research labs, laboratory animal breeders, and fur farms in the United States. A... (read more)

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Beyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals
Beyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals
by Evelyn B. Pulhar
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In Beyond Prejudice, Evelyn B. Pluhar defends the view that any sentient conative being—one capable of caring about what happens to him or herself—is morally significant, a view that supports the moral status and rights of many nonhuman... (read more)

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Defending the Defenseless: A Guide to Protecting and Advocating for Pets
Defending the Defenseless: A Guide to Protecting and Advocating for Pets
by Allie Phillips
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"In this detailed how-to book, which addresses every imaginable aspect of animal advocacy, there's no denying that attorney and animal rights advocate Phillips knows her stuff. Phillips encourages readers to become part of the solution through a variety... (read more)

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Animal Rights and Human Obligations (2ND 89 Edition)
Animal Rights and Human Obligations (2ND 89 Edition)
by Tom Regan
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Collection of historical, theoretical and applied articles on the ethical considerations in the treatment of animals by human beings.... (read more)

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Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science a)
Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science a)
by Colleen Glenney Boggs
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Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Colleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of... (read more)

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Animal Rights: The Changing Debate
Animal Rights: The Changing Debate
by Robert Garner
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This book provides a comprehensive exposition and appraisal of Marx's political economy, beginning with the philosophical and sociological foundations of his work and indication how his economic theory emerged from a critique of classical political... (read more)

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Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America
Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America
by Jan E. Dizard
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-222) and index.... (read more)

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Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status
Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status
by David Degrazia
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Transcending the overplayed debate between utilitarians and rights theorists, the book offers a fresh methodological approach with specific constructive conclusions about our treatment of animals. David DeGrazia provides the most thorough discussion yet... (read more)

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Farm Animal Welfare : Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues (95 Edition)
Farm Animal Welfare : Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues (95 Edition)
by Bernard E. Rollin
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Animals born with bones and muscles are meant to move. In modern systems of intensive agriculture, however, many animals -- notably, swine, veal calves, and poultry -- are rigorously confined. In this book Professor Bernard E. Rollin describes problems... (read more)

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Peta Files: The Dark Side of the Animal Rights Movement
Peta Files: The Dark Side of the Animal Rights Movement
by Dave P. Workman
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181).... (read more)

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The Great Elephant Escape
The Great Elephant Escape
by Antoinette Van De Water
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Street elephants are a common sight in Thailand. Some carry tourists on their backs, but most spend their days begging for food or money, urged on by their mahouts Ð their grooms and riders. The animals are often undernourished, in bad health, sleep... (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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Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
by Wesley J. Smith
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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)

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When Bulls Cry: The Case Against Bullfighting
When Bulls Cry: The Case Against Bullfighting
by Michael A. Ogorzaly
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When Bulls Cry: The Case Against Bullfighting is, as the title suggests, a work that puts the bullfight on trial and finds it guilty of extreme brutality and cruelty to animals. This is no legal brief, however. It is written from an historian's point of... (read more)

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Zoos & Animal Rights: The Ethics of Keeping Animals
Zoos & Animal Rights: The Ethics of Keeping Animals
by Stephen St C. Bostock
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Zoos and animal rights seem utterly opposed to each other. In this controversial and timely book, Stephen Bostock argues that they can develop a more harmonious relationship. He examines the diverse ethical and technical issues involved, including human... (read more)

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The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity
The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity
by Paola Cavalieri
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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... (read more)

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Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
by Marc (edt) Bekoff
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Expanded to two volumes, the comprehensively updated new edition, Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare: Second Edition is an extraordinary publishing event. It remains the only reference to cover the entire scope of animal rights and welfare... (read more)

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Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
by Gary L. Francione
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A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as... (read more)

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Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals
Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals
by Rod Preece
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Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts. Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb compiles the most... (read more)

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The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader
The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader
by Josephine Donovan
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In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist ethic of care theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles... (read more)

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