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Animal Rights

  • Begby Rory Freedman

    Running Press 2013; US$ 18.00

    Rory Freedman explains her profound love for her dogs and encourages the world to embrace the importance of pets. more...

  • Free the Bearsby Mary Hutton; Julie Miller

    Pan Macmillan Australia 2013; US$ 23.73

    In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction of bile from a caged and traumatised Asiatic Black Bear. Upon learning that thousands of bears were being held in these horrifying conditions throughout Asia, Mary was compelled to act, and by 1995, Free the Bears was... more...

  • Trash Animalsby Phillip David Johnson II; Kelsi Nagy

    University of Minnesota Press 2013; US$ 75.00

    In Trash Animals , a diverse group of environmental writers explore the natural history of wildlife species deemed filthy, invasive, or worthless, highlighting the vexed relationship humans have with such creatures. Each essay focuses on a so-called trash species?gulls, coyotes, carp, and magpies, among others?examining the biology and behavior... more...

  • Animal Heroesby David Long

    Random House 2013; US$ 10.67

    The PDSA Dickin Medal (regarded as the animals' Victoria Cross) has been awarded to just 64 animals, from the Blitz to present day, for their courage in times of crisis. Among these incredible true-life stories you will meet. G.I. Joe the plucky pigeon, who rescued over 100 lives by flying twenty miles in twenty minutes to deliver a message in... more...

  • Animals Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethicsby Stephen Newmyer

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95

    This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take notice of their interests. Exploring Plutarch's three animal-related treatises, as well as passages from his ethical treatises, Stephen Newmyer examines arguments that, strikingly, foreshadow... more...

  • Plant-Thinkingby Michael Marder

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99

    The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the existential features of plant... more...

  • Animalia Americanaby Colleen Glenney Boggs

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99

    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 sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in... more...

  • Animal Studiesby Paul Waldau

    Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 26.99

    Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking.... more...

  • Before the Lawby Cary Wolfe

    University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00

    Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law , Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans... more...

  • The 2013 Voiceless Anthologyby Voiceless

    Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 1.81

    A collection of the best entries in the inaugural Voiceless Writing Prize, designed to recognise the best Australian short fiction and non-fiction that has at its heart the place of animals in the world we have made. more...