Animals & society books

4810 books were found.

Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands

Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in...

Author: Paul Sillitoe
ISBN: 9780415280976
Format: Hardback
$315.00

An analysis of the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification,...  Read More >>

Orang-Utans and the Origins of Human Nature

Orang-Utans and the Origins of Human Nature

Author: James Burnett ,  Monboddo, Lord
ISBN: 9781843714644
Format: Hardback
$567.60

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An Essay on the Future Life of Brutes, Introduced with Observations upon Evil, Its Nature, and Origin

An Essay on the Future Life of Brutes, Introduced with...

Author: Richard Dean
ISBN: 9781843714606
Format: Hardback
$567.60

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Regression Periods in Human Infancy

Regression Periods in Human Infancy

Author:
ISBN: 9781282322455
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

Regression periods play a central role in the psychological development of the human baby. Studies of infants have...  Read More >>

A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals

A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty...

Author: Humphry Primatt
ISBN: 9781843714613
Format: Hardback
$567.60

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Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species,...

Author: Cary Wolfe ,  W. J. T. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780226905143
Format: Paperback
$54.95

In 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a...  Read More >>

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species,...

Author: Cary Wolfe ,  W. J. T. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780226905136
Format: Hardback
$163.95

In 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a...  Read More >>

Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America

Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America...

Author: Jan E. Dizard
ISBN: 9781558493841
Format: Paperback
$67.10

This examination of hunting in contemporary America uses interviews, opinion surveys and demographic statistics...  Read More >>

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...

Author: Rod Preece
ISBN: 9780774808972
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Brings together the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought.  Read More >>

Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America

Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America...

Author: Jan E. Dizard
ISBN: 9781558493650
Format: Hardback
$184.80

This examination of hunting in contemporary America uses interviews, opinion surveys and demographic statistics...  Read More >>

The Animal/Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives

The Animal/Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives

Author: Angela Creager (Contributor) ,  William Chester Jordan (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781580461207
Format: Hardback
$198.00

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.  Read More >>

Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture

Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and...

Author: Mary J. Henninger-Voss (Contributor) ,  Andrew Isenberg (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781580461214
Format: Hardback
$224.40

An exploration of the various ways animals and their relations to humans have been depicted throughout the ages....  Read More >>

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...

Author: Rod Preece
ISBN: 9780415943635
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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People Promoting and People Opposing Animal Rights: In Their Own Words

People Promoting and People Opposing Animal Rights:...

Author: John M. Kistler
ISBN: 9780313313226
Format: Hardback
$120.00

What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare?  Read More >>

Zoos and Animal Rights

Zoos and Animal Rights

Author: Stephen C Bostock
ISBN: 9781280037283
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

Zoos and animal rights would appear to be in conflict, yet Stephen Bostock argues that this need not and should...  Read More >>

Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb

Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb

Author: Rod Preece
ISBN: 9781280478086
Format: Electronic book text
$168.83

Brings together the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought.  Read More >>

Animal Rights, Human Wrongs

Animal Rights, Human Wrongs

Author: Tom Regan
ISBN: 9781306151818
Format: Electronic book text
$68.61

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People Promoting and People Opposing Animal Rights: In Their Own Words

People Promoting and People Opposing Animal Rights:...

Author: John M Kistler
ISBN: 9786610708604
Format: Electronic book text
$319.44

Explores the many issues surrounding the animal rights and animal welfare movements through personal interview responses...  Read More >>

Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature

Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals,...

Author: Dale Jamieson (, Department of Philosophy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780199251452
Format: Paperback
$112.95

Morality's Progress is the summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics...  Read More >>

Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940

Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western...

Author: George Colpitts
ISBN: 9780774809627
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This intriguing book identifies the imaginative use of wild animals in early western society and shows how attitudes...  Read More >>

Bridging the Bond: The Cultural Construction of the Shelter Pet

Bridging the Bond: The Cultural Construction of the...

Author: Tami L. Harbolt
ISBN: 9781557532602
Format: Hardback
$55.99

This book is designed to introduce the reader to the work culture of animal shelter employees, volunteers, activists,...  Read More >>

Animals Like Us

Animals Like Us

Author: Mark Rowlands ,  Colin McGinn
ISBN: 9781859843864
Format: Paperback
$29.99

In this clearly argued book, Rowlands argues that it is simply unjust to harm animals. As conscious beings, they...  Read More >>

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