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Protection of animals. Animal rights. Animal welfare

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  • Animal Rightsby Cass R. Sunstein

    Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 19.99

    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. more...

  • Just a Dogby Arnold Arluke

    Temple University Press 2006; US$ 25.95

    How can we make sense of acts of cruelty towards animals? more...

  • Animals and Their Moral Standingby Stephen R. L. Clark

    Routledge 1997; US$ 37.95

    This book is a record of the development of 'animal rights' through the eyes of one highly-respected and well-known thinker. more...

  • Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lambby Rod Preece

    Routledge 2003; US$ 31.95

    Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb compiles the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. It is an original, superbly researched history that deepens our understanding of all living beings. more...

  • Animal Rightsby David DeGrazia

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 12.99

    By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connecton with our diet, zoos, and research. more...

  • In Defense of Animalsby Peter Singer

    Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005; US$ 55.95

    Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago. This collection brings together new, incisive articles. Singer from University of Melbourne, Vic and Princeton. more...

  • Against Liberationby Michael P. T. Leahy

    Routledge 1993; US$ 44.95

    This timely and provocative book examines the theories behind the most commonly held contemporary assumptions about animal rights. Focusing on the writings of prominent pro-liberation activists such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan and Mary Midgley, Michael P. T. Leahy argues that the animal rights movement is based upon a series of fundamental misconceptions about the basic nature of animals--beliefs which define them rationally, emotionally, and morally in too human terms. Leahy gives particular emphasis to the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his highly influential philosophy of language, and concludes that much of our talk about animals is dangerously anthropomorphic and encourages us to elevate them to quasi-human status. He examines such... more...

  • Do Animals Have Rights?by Alison Hills

    Icon Books 2003; US$ 11.95

    In December 1998, animal rights activist Barry Horne lay dying in prison. A convicted arsonist, he had decided to sacrifice his life as a martyr to the cause of animal welfare. At the same time, Robin Webb of the Animal Liberation Front read out a hit list of ten names issued by the Animal Rights Militia, an extremist animal rights organisation. If Horne died, the ten vivisectionists would be assassinated. Animal Rights is an emotive issue that is never far from the news. But it is often hard to know who to believe: radical animal rights protestors who claim that humans and animals should have equal rights; or scientists who argue that it is always legitimate to use animals for our benefit. In this superbly accessible book, Alison Hills... more...

  • Animal Welfareby John Webster

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 66.99

    There has been a recent explosion of active concern in matters of animal welfare. The science behind animal welfare has progressed significantly, new codes of practice and legislation have come into to being, and innovative methods to assess welfare schemes for food production have emerged. Part of a major animal welfare series, Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden is John Webster’s new and groundbreaking work on animal welfare. Building on his first book, the highly acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden, it not only critically reviews areas of development, but looks to how animal welfare can be improved in the future. Special consideration is given to: Defining animal welfare (‘fit and happy’) and establishing... more...

  • Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animalsby Robert J. Young

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 78.99

    Environmental enrichment is a simple and effective means of improving animal welfare in any species – companion, farm, laboratory and zoo. For many years, it has been a popular area of research, and has attracted the attention and concerns of animal keepers and carers, animal industry professionals, academics, students and pet owners all over the world.   This book is the first to integrate scientific knowledge and principles to show how environmental enrichment can be used on different types of animal. Filling a major gap, it considers the history of animal keeping, legal issues and ethics, right through to a detailed exploration of whether environmental enrichment actually works, the methods involved, and how to design and manage... more...