Download Animal Origami for the Enthusiast PDF/eBook
By:John Montroll
Published on 1985 by Courier Corporation
ISBN 9780486247922
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Detailed instructions and illustrations describe how to create an assortment of origami animals, and discusses choosing the necessary supplies
Download Animal Rights PDF/eBook
By:John M. Kistler
Published on 2000 by Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 9780313312311
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Presents an introduction to the subject, suggestions on searching the Internet, and a bibliography of literature on animal nature, fatal and nonfatal uses, animal populations, and animal speculations.
Download Stereotypic Animal Behaviour PDF/eBook
By:Georgia Mason,Jeffrey Rushen
Published on 2008 by CABI
ISBN 9781845934651
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Abnormal behaviour patterns, from the jumping and somersaulting of caged laboratory mice to the pacing of enclosed 'big cats', are displayed by many millions of farm, zoo, research and companion animals. Including new chapters and over 30 contributors, this book focuses on the causation and treatment of these environment-induced stereotypic behaviours, and their implications for animal welfare and normalcy of brain functioning. The book begins by taking an ethological perspective, focusing on the constraints captivity places on animals' normal behavioural repertoires, and the effects these have on specific motivational systems. It then addresses the role of dysfunction, particularly the impact of chronic stress and impoverished environments on brain functioning. The book then moves on to explore how stereotypic behaviours can be tackled, once they have emerged, using diverse techniques from environmental enrichment to pharmaceutical intervention. It concludes by giving a new definition for 'stereotypic behaviour', and a discussion of future research directions.
Download Parabasis and Animal Choruses PDF/eBook
By:Gregory Michael Sifakis
Published on 1971-01-01 by G. M. Sifakis
ISBN 9780485111262
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Download Women and the Animal Rights Movement PDF/eBook
By:Emily Gaarder
Published on 2011 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN 9780813549675
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Animal rights is one of the fastest growing social movements today. Women greatly outnumber men as activists, yet surprisingly, little has been written about the importance and impact of gender on the movement. Women and the Animal Rights Movement combats stereotypes of women activists as mere sentimentalists by exploring the political and moral character of their advocacy on behalf of animals. Emily Gaarder analyzes the politics of gender in the movement, incorporating in-depth interviews with women and participant observation of animal rights organizations, conferences, and protests to describe struggles over divisions of labor and leadership. Controversies over PETA advertising campaigns that rely on women's sexuality to |sell| animal rights illustrate how female crusaders are asked to prioritize the cause of animals above all else. Gaarder underscores the importance of a paradigm shift in the animal liberation movement, one that seeks a more integrated vision of animal rights that connects universally to other issues--gender, race, economics, and the environment--highlighting that many women activists recognize and are motivated by the connection between the oppression of animals and other social injustices.
Download Animal Rights PDF/eBook
By:Paul Waldau
Published on 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199739967
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A survey of animal rights issues addresses a variety of topics surrounding research animals, companion animals, wild animals, work animals, and animals used for food, as well as discussing the animal rights movement and its key figures and organizations.
Download Between Pets and People PDF/eBook
By:Alan M. Beck,Aaron Honori Katcher
Published on 1996 by Purdue University Press
ISBN 9781557530776
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Since the first edition of Between Pets and People in 1983, the authors' then-startling contention that pets benefit our mental and physical health has found wide acceptance. Evidence in our daily lives - in television pet food ads, in doctor's offices outfitted with aquaria - attests to how widely the belief in pets' therapeutic influence is now held. This revised edition of Between Pets and People, with additional data and case studies and expanded references - including a listing of Internet resources - and a foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, analyzes the surprisingly complex relationships we have with our pets. This book contains an important lesson for everyone - to accept ourselves and others in the uncritical way that pets accept us, and come to terms with our own animal nature.
Download Honey bear and other animal stories PDF/eBook
By:Caroline Repchuk
Published on 2000 by
ISBN 9780752540504
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Download Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, 2nd Edition [2 volumes] PDF/eBook
By:Marc Bekoff
Published on 2009-11-25 by ABC-CLIO
ISBN 9780313352560
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A landmark publishing achievement on the subject, the new edition of this acclaimed encyclopedia is expanded to two volumes, covering the full range of issues related to animal protection. • Includes hundreds of alphabetically organized entries covering the full range of topics related to animal rights and welfare, including dog fighting, endangered species in zoos, animals as disease carriers, factory farming, veganism, and more • Encompasses the work of 150 contributors—experts from around the world that make up a virtual |who's who| in the broad areas of animal protection • Outlines a chronology of legislation and other important events that have had a significant impact on animal rights issues • Lists references for each entry, plus a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the encyclopedia
Download Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction PDF/eBook
By:David DeGrazia
Published on 2002-02-21 by Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 9780192853608
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Do animals have moral rights? If so what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand their welfare? This fascinating introduction to the rights of animals addresses these perplexing questions, and explores their implications in contexts such as food consumption, zoos, and research.
Download Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy PDF/eBook
By:Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr
Published on 2007 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521860666
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Argues that the animal choruses in Greek comedy of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals of an earlier tradition.
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By:Barbara A. Somervill
Published on 2010-09-01 by Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 9781432938772
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This book explores the features of the animal cell and includes information about life processes such as respiration.
Download Animal Rights Without Liberation PDF/eBook
By:Alasdair Cochrane
Published on 2012-09-11 by Columbia University Press
ISBN 9780231504430
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Alasdair Cochrane provides an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He applies this theory to a whole range of different and under-explored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that the possession of rights by animals does not mean animals must never be owned or used by human beings. He claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous agents, they have no intrinsic interest in liberty. As such, his book argues that our obligations to animals lie in ending practices that cause their suffering and death and do not require the liberation of animals. Cochrane’s “interest-based rights approach” weighs the moral rights of animals to determine which of their interests sufficiently imposes strict duties on humans. Sentient animals have a clear and discernable right not to suffer and have continued life, Cochrane acknowledges, but they do not have a prima facie right to liberty. Because most animals possess no interest in leading freely chosen lives, humans have no moral obligation to liberate them. Moving beyond theory to the practical aspects of applied ethics, this pragmatic volume provides much-needed perspective on the realities and responsibilities of the human-animal relationship.
Download My Little Animal Book PDF/eBook
By:Jo Rigg
Published on 2006-11-14 by Macmillan
ISBN 9780312497316
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Presents pictures of different animals arranged into such groups as farm babies, pets, African animals, reptiles, and bugs. On board pages.
Download The Animal Factory PDF/eBook
By:Edward Bunker
Published on 2000-11-04 by Macmillan
ISBN 9780312267117
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When Earl Copen, a veteran of San Quentin, takes it upon himself to instruct newcomer Ron Decker in the details of prison protocol, a bond like that between father and son develops between the two men. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (A new film, directed by Steve Buscemi, starring Willem Dafoe) (General Fiction)
Download Stress and Animal Welfare PDF/eBook
By:D.M. Broom,K.G. Johnson
Published on 1993-11-30 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 9780412395802
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The book explains basic biological principles for students of animal housing, husbandry, management, and experimentation. The text provides a framework and reference source for everyone involved in moral decisions about animal usage.
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By:William Lovell Finley,Irene Barnhart Finley
Published on 1928 by
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By:James Braid
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Download Animal Liberation PDF/eBook
By:Peter Singer
Published on 1995 by Random House
ISBN 9780712674447
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'A reasoned plea for the human treatment of animals that galvanised the animal rights movement the way Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING drew activists to environmentalism. ' NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE In this revised edition of his hugely influential book, Peter Singer discusses the evolution of the animal rights movement and the extent to which his own views have changed since first publication (1975). He also graphically updates his account of what is being done to animals in the laboratory or on the farm.
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By:Cary Wolfe
Published on 2003-01-01 by U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 9780816641055
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Those nonhuman beings called |animals| pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when |the other| can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture and theory, from Jurassic Park and the |horse whisperer| Monty Roberts, to the work of artists such as Joseph Beuys and William Wegman; from foundational texts on the animal in the works of Heidegger and Freud, to the postmodern rethinking of ethics and animals in figures such as Singer, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Levinas; from the New York Times investigation of a North Carolina slaughterhouse, to the first appearance in any language of Jacques Derrida's recent detailed critique of Lacan's rendering of the human/animal divide.
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By:Robert Garner
Published on 2005-09-02 by Polity
ISBN 9780745630793
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This book is an attempt to lead the way through the moral maze that is our relationship with nonhuman animals. Written by an author with an established reputation in this field, the book takes the reader step by step through the main parameters of the debate, demonstrating at each turn the different positions adopted. In the second part of the book, the implications of holding each position for the ethical permissibility of what is done to animals - in laboratories, farms, the home and the wild - are explained. Garner starts by asking whether animals have any moral standing before moving on to assess exactly what degree of moral status ought to be accorded to them. It is suggested that whilst animals should not be granted the same moral status as humans, they are worthy of greater moral consideration than the orthodox animal welfare position allows. As a result, it is suggested that many of the ways we currently treat animals are morally illegitimate. In the final chapter, the issue of political praxis is tackled. How are reforms to the ways in which animals are treated to be achieved? This book suggests that currently dominant debates about insider status and direct action are less important than the question of agency. That is, the important question is not what is done to change the way animals are treated as much as whom is to be mobilised to join the cause. Students of philosophy, politics and environmental issues will find this an essential textbook.
Download Animal Domestication and Behavior PDF/eBook
By:Edward O. Price
Published on 2002-11-27 by CABI
ISBN 9780851997728
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written by a world authority on animal behavioura highly original contribution to the subjectcovers behaviour and domestication of farm, zoo and companion animalsThis book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how it has affected the behaviour of captive wild and domesticated animals. Three broad themes are addressed:Genetic contributions to the process of domesticationExperimental contributions to the process of domesticationThe process of feralization (i.e. the adaptation of domesticated animals when returned to their natural habitat)
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By:Cass R. Sunstein,Martha C. Nussbaum
Published on 2004-04-01 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780195152173
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Contributors to this volume explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Ethical questions on ownership, protection against suffering and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control are thought-provokingly examined.
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By:Larry Carbone
Published on 2004 by Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 9780195161960
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Larry Carbone provides a balanced and reasonable advocacy of animal rights, looking at how to ethically and responsibly conduct biomedical and behavioural research that respects the rights and welfare of all subjects including animals.
Download The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm PDF/eBook
By:Peter Hall,George Orwell
Published on 1993-01-01 by Heinemann
ISBN 9780435232917
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The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This dramatization of George Orwell's Animal Farm comes with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell and music by Richard Peaslee.
