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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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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
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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)

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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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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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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... (read more)

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Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
by Steven Best
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The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? features both academic and activist perspectives and offers powerful insight into this international organization... (read more)

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The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England
The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England
by Harriet Ritvo
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An unusual social history of Victorian England...Deftly written and generously illustrated, The Animal Estatedetails the spectrum of Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of zoology, the hunt, the rabies panic (not... (read more)

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Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
by Charles Patterson
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This book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust.... (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 Scalpel and the Butterfly
The Scalpel and the Butterfly
by Deborah Rudacille
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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... (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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Call to the Rescue: The Story of the Marine Mammal Center
Call to the Rescue: The Story of the Marine Mammal Center
by Joe Quirk
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Since 1975, over 12,000 animals have been treated at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. An effort that began with locals rescuing sea lions from nearby beaches has grown into the largest marine mammal facility in the world. The center's... (read more)

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Case for Animal Rights Updated Edition
Case for Animal Rights Updated Edition
by Tom Regan
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More than twenty years after its original publication, "The Case for Animal Rights "is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered... (read more)

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Ethics Into Action
Ethics Into Action
by Peter Singer
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This book tells the inspiring story of a lifelong activist whose creativity and careful thought set the standard for the animal rights movement in the twentieth century.... (read more)

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Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
by Tom Regan
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Described by Jeffrey Masson as the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of humane treatment... (read more)

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Animal Rites : American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (03 Edition)
Animal Rites : American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (03 Edition)
by Cary Wolfe
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In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žiž... (read more)

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An Odyssey with Animals: A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate
An Odyssey with Animals: A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate
by Adrian Morrison
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The relationship between animals and humans is more complex today than ever before. In addition to the animals that have served as household pets, and the farm animals that have provided labor and food, countless monkeys, rabbits, rats, and cats have... (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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Do Animals Have Rights (06 Edition)
Do Animals Have Rights (06 Edition)
by Alison Hills
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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)

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Animal Welfare (Face the Facts)
Animal Welfare (Face the Facts)
by Bel Browning
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Each book in this series takes a reflective, in-depth look at current issues with engaging text that includes examples from the past and present. Both sides of the discussion are presented objectively, leading the reader to form his or her own opinions... (read more)

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