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Ecofeminism : Women, Animals, Nature (Ethics and Action)

by Greta Claire Gaard (Editor)

Because ecofeminism struggles to reveal the complex interconnected-ness of all living things with the natural environment, these essays were chosen from an assortment of viewpoints. Activists, feminists, ecologists and animal liberationists share their unique experiences, efforts and ideas about the relationships inherent in our world. This collection of original writings examines the historic norms of patriarchal concepts about humanity and illuminates a new perspective between humans and nature. -- from The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by SH

The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology)

by Eugene Hargrove (Editor)

Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care

by Andrew Linzey

Of God and Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life

by Jay Byrd McDaniel

Animals and Why They Matter

by Mary Midgley

Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism

by James Rachels

Created from Animals offers a provocative look at how Darwinian evolution undermines many tenets of traditional philosophy and religion. Rachels begins by examining Darwin's own life and work, presenting an astonishingly vivid and compressed biography. We see Darwin's studies of the psychological links in evolution (such as emotions in dogs, and the "mental powers" of worms), and how he addressed the moral implications of his work, especially in his concern for the welfare of animals. Rachels goes on to present a lively and accessible survey of the controversies that followed in Darwin's wake, ranging from Herbert Spencer's Social Darwinism to Edward O. Wilson's sociobiology, and discusses how the work of such influential intellects as Descartes, Hume, Kant, T.H. Huxley, Henri Bergson, B.F. Skinner, and Stephen Jay Gould has contributed to--or been overthrown by--evolutionary science.

The Case for Animal Rights

by Tom Regan

Animal Liberation

by Peter Singer

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 of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures--offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement

by Peter Singer

Very economically, Ethics Into Action renders a rich picture of a complex but focused compatriot, complete with a "lessons learned" section, including hints on how to avoid bureaucracy and the pitfall of dividing the world into "saints and sinners."

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

by Marjorie Spiegel

Spiegel's book is a powerful and important statement about oppression and violence in Western culture. The author writes "To those who would be master, what matters is not so much who their slaves will be, but that there are slaves to be had". This work is accessible to all adult audiences, and would be suitable for college courses at any level in sociology, philosophy, or peace studies, or examing issues of oppression in contemporary animal issues. --Multicultural Review

Rattling the Cage:Toward Legal Rights for Animals

by Steven M Wise

Nonhuman animals are not "persons" in the legal sense and therefore have no legal rights. Wise, an animal rights activist and lawyer, argues for the entitlement of animals to legal rights in this scholarly new book. The parallels drawn between legal arguments for human rights and research showing that apes demonstrate the same mental capacities as the human persons make for a compelling argument against the injustice of denying basic legal rights to apes. This is a carefully reasoned and well-written book. -- Booklist

Animals and Women : Feminist Theoretical Explorations

by Carol J. Adams (Editor), Josephine Donovan (Editor)

Animals in Film

by Jonathan Burt

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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory

by Carol Adams

In just over a year, the book with the strange title--and even strager ideas, some would say--has become the classic articulation of the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, between vegetarianism and feminism. Now in paperback and widely available to readers everywhere, The Sexual Politics of Meat will have an even larger impact on the American public.
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Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles of Compassion for Prevention and Intervention

by Frank Ascione and Phil Arkow (Editors)

Evidence is mounting that animal abuse, frequently embedded in families scarred by domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, often predicts the potential for other violent acts. As early intervention is critical in the prevention and reduction of aggression, this book encourages researchers and professionals to recognize animal abuse as a significant problem and a human public-health issue that should be included as a curriculum topic in training.

A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History

by Matt Cartmill

Biological anthropologist Cartmill (Duke U.) searches out the origins, and the strange allure, of the myth of Man the Hunter, showing how hunting has figured in the western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the tale of Bambi--and how its evolving image has reflected humankind's view of itself. Accessible to a general audience. Includes some b&w illustrations. -- Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or

Animal Equality: Language and Liberation

by Joan Dunayer

The first book on language and nonhuman oppression--and the most progressive animal-rights book to date--Animal Equality shows that deceptive, biased words sustain injustice toward nonhuman animals. Speciesism (prejudice against nonhuman animals) survives through lies. Animal Equality's compelling evidence of nonhuman thought and emotion debunks language that characterizes other animals as unreasoning or insensitive. Vivid descriptions of hunting, sportfishing, zoos, aquaprisons, vivisection, and food-industry captivity and slaughter reveal the cruelty that misleading words legitimize and conceal. Animal Equality also uncovers the speciesist attitudes and practices underlying much racist and sexist language. Every animal--nonhuman or human--deserves equal consideration and protection, Joan Dunayer argues. Offering style, pronoun, and vocabulary guidelines, Animal Equality proposes new language that will bring us closer to nonhuman liberation.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

by Gail A. Eisnitz

With powerful descriptions reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's masterpiece The Jungle, this book takes a shocking, frightening look at where our beef, poultry, and pork are mass-produced. Includes photos. --Ingram

Lethal Laws: Animal Testing, Human Health, and Environmental Policy

by Alix Fano

For the last 150 years, chemicals have been tested on animals for the alleged purpose of protecting the public from their potentially dangerous effects. In Lethal Laws, Alix Fano argues that using animals as human surrogates is not only unethical, but also bad science. Fano provides a meticulous analysis of the technical and scientific problems that have plagued animal tests for decades, but which have not been forcefully challenged until now.

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals by C. Ray Greek, MD and Jean Swingle Greek, DVM

The Greeks aren't the first to point out the bad science and high costs of experimentation on animals. But they may be the first to investigate the subject thoroughly and report their findings in a well-written, well-documented, and accessible book. They strive not so much to help prevent harm to animals as to prove that the results of animal experiments usually aren't applicable to humans. Early researchers are often credited for discoveries because they worked on animals, whereas clinicians who observed the same conditions in their patients are overlooked. The Greeks also report many cases in which animal experimentation confused or held up work on humans. Human cells and tissues, they say, can be used in many more and much more pertinent experiments than can those of animals. The lobby for animal experimentation consists of breeders and suppliers, equipment companies, drug companies, universities, and grant-giving groups, all of which exert great pressure on the FDA and other government agencies. A book to spur discussion and action. -- William Beatty -- Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence: Readings in Research and Application

by Randall Lockwood and Frank R Ascione (editors)

Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence presents in one volume historical, philosophical, and research sources that explore the maltreatment of animals and the ways people hurt each other. Diverse disciplines are represented among the readings, including psychology and psychiatry, criminology, social work, veterinary science, and anthropology. A bibliography of related books and articles is provided for readers who wish to pursue this topic in greater detail.

In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation

by F. Barbara Orlans

Few arguments in biomedical experimentation have stirred such heated debate in recent years as those raised by animal research. In this comprehensive analysis of the social, political, and ethical conflicts surrounding the use of animals in scientific experiments, Barbara Orlans judges both ends of the spectrum in this debate -- unconditional approval or rejection of animal experimentation -- to be untenable. Instead of arguing for either view, she thoughtfully explores the ground between the extremes, and convincingly makes the case for public policy reforms that serve to improve the welfare of laboratory animals without jeopardizing scientific endeavor.

Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture

by Jeremy Rifkin

An analysis of the beef culture incorporates anthropology, history, sociology, economics, and ecology to demonstrate how "cattle culture" has changed our world. --Ingram

Farm Animal Welfare: School, Bioethical, and Research Issues

by Bernard E. Rollin

An examination of current issues on the well-being of farm animals, especially in the beef, swine, dairy, veal, and poultry industries.

Animal Models of Human Psychology

by Kenneth Shapiro, PhD

Animal Models of Human Psychology contributes to the debate on our treatment of nonhuman animals in research by providing an empirical method for evaluating the benefits of the research and the costs to the animals. The usual "costs-to-the animal vs. human-benefits" arguments simply have not been based on empirical findings. But they could be. By offering additional science-based methods of evaluation, the book attempts to make the case against animal-based research stronger.

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Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

by David Nibert

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Strolling with Our Kin: Speaking for and Respecting Voiceless Animals

by Marc Bekoff

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Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully

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Compassionate Beasts: The Quest for Animal Rights

by Lyle Munro

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Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights

by Steven M. Wise

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The Animal Question: Why Non-Human Animals Deserve Human Rights

by Paola Cavalieri

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Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

by Marc Bekoff (Editor), Carron A. Meaney (Editor)

From the use of animals in experiments to develop medicine for people, to the preservation of endangered species in zoos, human beings' responsibility to and for their fellow animals has become an increasingly controversial subject. This book, which Jane Goodall in her foreword calls "unique, informative, and exciting," provides a provocative overview of the many different perspectives on the issues of animal rights and animal welfare in an easy-to-use encyclopedic format. Students, teachers, and interested readers can explore the ideas of well-known philosophers, biologists, and psychologists in this field, such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and over 125 others, all of whom have contributed original entries.

The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity

by Paola Cavalieri (Editor), Peter Singer (Editor)

A call for a more equitable treatment of apes, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans features the passionate words of thirty-four world-renowned figures, including Jane Goodall, Douglas Adams, Jared Diamond, and Francine Patterson. -- Ingram

Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?

by Gary Francione

Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? provides a guidebook to examining our social and personal ethical beliefs. It takes us through concepts of property and equal consideration to arrive at the basic contention of animal rights: that everyoneâ€"human and non-humanâ€"has the right not to be treated as a means to an end. Along the way, it illuminates concepts and theories that all of us use but few of us understandâ€"the nature of "rights" and "interests," for example, and the theories of Locke, Descartes, and Bentham.

Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement

by Gary Francione

In legal theory, Francione notes, "Animal welfare, unlike animal rights, rests on the notion that animals are property and that virtually every animal interest can be sacrificed in order to obtain `benefits' for people." Animal welfare is rather like "wise use"--i.e., eat animals, experiment on them, but try to avoid "unnecessary" suffering. As Francione says, "I do not think that we can meaningfully speak of legal rights for animals as long as animals are regarded as property." Francione follows his 1995 book, Animals, Property and the Law , with a scholarly, sometimes dense but generally compelling argument that the modern animal-rights movement is substantially one for animal welfare that ignores the question of whether animals have inherent rights.
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Hearts and Minds: The Controversy over Laboratory Animals

by Julian McAllister Groves

Illumination of emotionally laden issues is typically sought through "objective" research and analysis. But for his study of animal-rights activists and animal researchers in a small Southern university town, Groves functioned as a participant-observer. Furthermore, he focused on people's feelings - how they felt about the use of animals in research, why they felt the way they did and how they felt about their feelings. The results are truly enlightening. He found that the opposing camps are distinguished in unexpected ways: animals-rights activists emphasize an ethic of personal responsibility expressed in rational, scientific terms, while researchers emphasize their roles as caring stewards of scientific research. These contrasting orientations have their origins in a shared acknowledgment of the moral costs of using animals, and Groves argues that polarization has resulted because people have not expressed to one another the shame and guilt that result from their moral ambivalence. --Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800

by Hilda Kean

The struggle for the rights of wild, farmed and domestic animals is not by any means a recent phenomenon. Controversies around the issues of vivisection, zoos, and hunting all have a long history. Here Hilda Kean traces these issues across a period of more than 200 years, and also charts the history of vegetarianism and continuing campaigns against cruelty of animals. 40 illustrations. --Ingram

The Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respect

by Lawrence Finsen, Susan Finsen

The Finsens profile the various animal-rights groups and their philosophies, goals, and actions. They also provide a readable history of the movement, from its beginning in early philosophy to more concerted and organized efforts in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Britain and the U.S. They treat in particular detail several of the most active and influential animal-rights organizations, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Animal Liberation Front. The Finsens also offer a good analysis of books central to the movement, including Singer's Animal Liberation (1975) and Regan's Case for Animal Rights (1983). Though the authors acknowledge their bias in favor of animal rights, and that bias is  especially clear in their discussions of groups and individuals in disagreement with animal-rights advocates, theirs remains an excellent primer on a growing political movement. -- Brian McCombie - Booklist

Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets

by Anthony Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul, and James A. Serpell (Editors)

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Pet Therapy: A Study and Resource Guide for the Use of Companion Animals in Selected Therapies, 8th Edition

by Phil Arkow

Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) and Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) are becoming increasingly recognized as programs that can enhance the welfare of people and animals in a wide range of settings. This 200-page resource guide, now in its 8th edition, is the definitive reference text about AAT and is used in several college curricula. The first half of the book explores the premise and promise of AAT with guidelines for implementing programs in such venues as nursing homes, hospitals, hospices, prisons and AIDS/HIV programs. Topics also include animal selection, volunteer training, risk management, and how to conduct an animal visit. The second half of the book is an extensive Resource Guide, including hundreds of citations of AAT research, directories, regulations and model policies.

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Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship

by Alan Beck and Aaron Katcher

A review and exploration of the evidence that animals have a significant influence on human life and health. The authors, who were the original investigators of well known studies, show that physical and emotional health can be improved with human-animal interaction. The book reviews the evolution of domestication and the basis for the importance of companion animals in our lives.

Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Theoretical Foundations and Guidelines for Practice

by Aubrey H. Fine (editor)

Fine, of the school of education and integrative studies at Cal State Polyetchnic U., has chosen contributions from veterinarians, animal trainers, psychologists, social workers, and others that build to an overview of the ways animals can help improve the lives of elderly, sick, and disabled people. The work includes guidlines and best practices for using dogs, cats, and other animals as therapeutic companions with specific populations (e.g. children, the disabled, AIDS patients) and in various settings (hospitals, prisons, independent practice).-- Book News, Inc(R), Portland, OR.

Bring Me the Ocean: Nature as Teacher, Messenger and Intermediary

by Rebecca A. Reynolds

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The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age

by Harriet Ritvo

Understanding Dogs: Living and Working With Canine Companions

by Clinton R. Sanders

In this latest treatise on the state of the human-canine connection, sociologist Sanders focuses on the sociological significance of human relationships with dogs. It sounds complicated, but this book is really quite interesting. In a chatty, informative way, Sanders examines how everyday dog owners relate to their pets as thinking, emotional, and responsive individuals, and he shows exactly how pets reciprocate. Using anecdotes, research, and hard data, Sanders discusses the history of dog ownership, the problems and joys of living with a dog, the day-to-day work of veterinarians, and the everyday lives of "dog-people." --Kathleen Hughes, Booklist

In the Company of Animals: A study of Human- Animal Relationships

by James Serpell

Contrasting the way we love some animals while ruthlessly exploiting others, this study provides a detailed and fascinating account of the ways in which animal companionship can influence our health. It provides a key to the moral contradiction inherent in our treatment of animals and nature.

Animals and Human Society : Changing Perspectives

by Aubrey Manning, James Serpell (Editor), Audrey Manning (Editor)

As modern society begins to re/examine its relationship with animals, as well as the larger global environment, the idea of small, utopian minorities as the only ones concerned with issues of animal welfare and environmental protections has begun to be replaced. Vast numbers of articulate supporters, from Hollywood stars to powerful political figures are now at the forefront of these fights. Animals, both wild and domestic--spotted owls, alley cats, lab rats and vanishing other species--are the most visible issue in the debates. This book brings together a broad range of contributions from the distinguished in the field. The book explores the importance of animals in society from sociological, historical and cross-cultural perspectives.

Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo

by Nigel Rothfels

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Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution

by Raymond Coppinger & Lorna Coppinger

"Very few dog books are written by biologists," states the introduction to this absorbing work about our oldest domestic animal. The authors combine two approaches to the study of the dog--they both have advanced degrees in ethology (animal behavior) and both have raised and trained hundreds of dogs from numerous breeds. This unique background allows examination of the dual roles that evolution (in the form of selective breeding) and training has in the creation of all of the different breeds and forms of the dog found around the world today. The main thrust of the book is to look at what breeds of dogs can do and the genetics behind these different abilities and behaviors. The authors examine different kinds of dogs based on their evolving ecological association with people: dogs evolving from wolves and becoming commensal with humans; dogs working for people in a mutually beneficial relationship; dogs becoming household pets; and, finally, dogs becoming controversial both in a scientific sense and in everyday life. This important book belongs in all libraries. -- Nancy Bent Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape

by F. B. M. De Waal

Bonobos, formerly called "pygmy chimpanzees," are the least known of the great apes. This wonderful book by a preeminent primatologist does much to introduce the general reader to one of our closest relatives. Covering studies undertaken both in captivity and in the species' natural habitat in Zaire, de Waal's riveting account compares bonobo behavior with that of the better-known chimpanzee and with humans. Complemented by Frans Lanting's coffee-table-quality photographs of wild and captive bonobos, the chapters cover the discovery of the bonobo (in 1929), its habitat and how it shaped the species' behavior, and the fears for the future of wild bonobos in an unstable region. Interviews with researchers provide a full picture of scientific studies, and extensive notes pertaining to each chapter explain many concepts in greater detail. This highly recommended book should be in all libraries. One minor warning: bonobos engage in all forms of sexual contact, and this behavior is fully explored in both the text and the photos. -- Booklist, Nancy Bent

Next of Kin : My Conversations With Chimpanzees

by Roger Fouts

For three decades, primatologist Roger Fouts has been involved in language studies of the chimpanzee, the animal most closely related to human beings. Among his subjects was the renowned Washoe, who was "endowed with a powerful need to learn and communicate," and who developed an extraordinary vocabulary in American sign language. Another chimpanzee, Fouts writes, "never made a grammatical error," which turned a whole school of linguistic theory upside down. While reporting these successes, Fouts also notes that chimpanzees are regularly abused in laboratory settings and that in the wild their number has fallen from 5,000,000 to fewer than 175,000 in the last century.

Reflections of Eden: My years with the Orangutans of Borneo

by Birute M. F. Galdikas

Galdikas is a "trimate," one of three women who devoted themselves to the study of great apes in the wild. Her zeal for learning about orangutans emulates Jane Goodall's fascination with chimpanzees and the late Dian Fossey's dedication to gorillas. Not only is Galdikas a brilliant, courageous, and persevering scientist, but she is also a wonderfully engaging and generous writer. She tells the entire mesmerizing story of how she came to be the world's foremost orangutan expert, eloquently sharing her passion for these red-haired, arboreal, intelligent, gentle and reclusive yet personable creatures.

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

by Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very definition of "humanity." Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey, with observations as profound as the knowledge she has brought back from the forest.

Chimpanzee Cultures

by Richard W. Wrangham (Editor), W. C. McGrew (Editor), Frans de Waal (Editor), Paul G. Heltne (Editor)

Authorities on chimpanzees and bonobos compare the animals' behaviors from one study site to the next, in captive and wild groups, and demonstrate that nature and culture play important roles in the behavior of the Pan species. Sections on ecology, social relations, and cognition discuss hunting strategies, medicinal plant use by chimpanzees in the wild, chimpanzee vocal behavior, individual differences in cognitive abilities, and the question of chimpanzee culture. Includes a foreword by Jane Goodall, plus b&w photos and drawings. -- Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or

The Domestic Dog : Its Evolution, Behaviour, and Interactions With People

by James Serpell (Editor), Priscilla Barrett (Editor)

Enjoy an unusually scientific approach to the natural history of the dog which examines its evolution, behavior, and interactions with humans rather than providing the usual photo display of breeds. From genetic predispositions towards behavior to social development and communication influences, this presents an intriguing survey of dog developments for students of science. 
-- Midwest Book Review