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by Steven Wise
Steven Wise has spent his legal career
in courts across the United States, championing the interests of dogs, cats, dolphins,
deer, goats, sheep, African gray parrots, and American bald eagles. In Rattling the
Cage, Wise--who teaches "animal rights law" at several academic
institutions, including Harvard Law School--presents a thorough survey of the legal,
philosophical, and religious origins of humankind's inhumanity toward citizens of the
animal kingdom.
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Careers With Animals
by Humane Society of the United States and Willow Ann Sirch
How can the love of animals
translate into a career? In this engaging collection of interviews, activities, and
advice, Willow Ann Sirch explores more than 30 careers with animals of all kinds.
Organized by vocation groups such as jobs in animals shelters, veterinary medicine,
wildlife rescue, and obedience training, the author addresses the young reader in a frank,
conversational manner.
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The Case for Animal Rights
by Tom Regan
Tom Regan's book is a classic in
the animal rights literature. It is the most philosophical work to date and consequently
not really accessible to the widest of audiences. However, Regan explains his own and
others' thoughts in an extremely clear way. This book will be very welcome to anyone who
wants a more "scientific" (as opposed to emotional) defense of animal rights. It
is essential reading for anyone trying to get a grip on the debate today.
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The Man Who Listens to Horses
by Monty Roberts
This title addresses the current
interest in communication between animals and humans. Monty Roberts's amazing methods for
schooling horses to accept saddle and rider were developed through his keen observation of
how horses communicate in the wild. His determination to abolish the cruelty in the
age-old "breaking" of horses and to break the abusive relationship within his
own family inspires a passionate reading of his life and work.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Life isn't fair--here's why: Since
1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the World has danced to.
In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out
that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is not nearly the first to ask it.
However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious
theories of European genetic superiority.
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Next of Kin
by Roger Fouts
Can chimpanzees talk? As Fouts
explains in this fascinating account, the answer to this question is no. But if the
question is rephrased as, Can chimpanzees communicate using nonverbal language? the answer
is a resounding yes. In the late 1960s, Washoe, a female chimpanzee, was taught American
Sign Language in a groundbreaking study. Fouts was involved with Project Washoe from the
beginning, and this account of the experiment and its aftermath reads like a novel.
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Some Horses
by Thomas McGuane
Since his arrival as a novelist
and essayist in the late 1960s, Thomas McGuane's elegant and muscular prose has left its
print on the trail of American letters, exploring the American landscape and exposing the
American heart. In the nine finely tooled essays that make up Some Horses, McGuane
explores and exposes his own passionately layered relationship to the cutting horses he
rides and works on his Montana ranch.
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Inside the Animal Mind
By George Page
George Page, creator and long-time host
of television's Nature, knows animals well. He has written Inside the Animal
Mind, a broad look at how birds, apes, and others solve problems without the
advantages of the human brain, as a companion to the three-episode series covering the
world of animal intelligence. Exploring the natural world and the laboratory, he comes up
with some interesting insights into intelligence and (more importantly) how we see it.
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Animal Law
by Frasch, Waisman, Wagman, and Beckstead"Animal Law" is a thoroughly researched, thoughtfully
organized and well-written casebook on this newly-recognized but not so new area of the
law. One only has to glance through the Table of Contents to realize the varied roles that
animals play in our daily lives and the many contexts in which courts have considered
animals. Many attorneys now use "Animal Law" in the seminars they teach at law
schools around the nation. It collects the best cases for any given topic and distills
important concepts from the readings through the Notes at the end of each section. Highly
recommended for any lawyer new to the field, as well as for attorneys who have practiced
in this area of law for years.
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When Elephants Weep
by Jeffrey Moussaef Masson
Drawing upon the illuminating
experiences of animal trainers--from Sea World to the Ringling Brothers Circus to guide
dogs for the blind, this work also includes insights from pet owners, literature, myth,
and fable to create a riveting and revolutionary portrayal of animal's lives that will
permanently change and enrich the way you look at animals.
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Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
The Book That Started A Revolution.
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.
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Saving Molly
by Dr. James Mahoney
A different twist on the veterinary
memoirs genre popularized by James Herriot, Mahoney's examination of his motives as a
research veterinarian makes for engrossing reading. Molly of the title is a small puppy
that the author and his wife spent most of a Jamaican vacation curing of the myriad
medical problems that beset her. In the process of saving Molly, Mahoney begins to
confront a dilemma--how can a veterinarian who so loves animals condone their use in
medical research?
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Cruelty to Animals and
Interpersonal Violence
by Randall Lockwood and Frank R. Ascione
The landscapes of violence have become
too familiar, too close to home. Despite decades of scientific research, we are only
beginning to understand the roots of violence that connect child maltreatment, spouse and
partner abuse, and aggression in our neighborhoods and communities. 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.
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A Perfect Harmony
by Roger A. Caras
An informative, insightful history of
animal domestication through the ages, by ASPCA president Caras, author of numerous fine
works on pets and wildlife. As Caras defines it, domestication is ``the shaping of a
species by man, using selective breeding to replace natural selection.'' In studiously
reviewing the origins and probable methods of domestication, as well as the ancestry of
all manner of animals, from goats and horses in the Stone Age to camels and elephants
around 4000 b.c., to ferrets and cats in more recent years, Caras explains how ``animals
have played a vital role in man's evolutionary course.''
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The Soul of the Law
by Benjamin Sells
The loss of meaning in society is
affecting not only laws and the attitudes towards lawyers, but business, politics, and
everyday lives. Here Sells explains what's gone wrong and why, offering ideas for bringing
balance back into daily lives, society, and the law. An intriguing approach to
understanding more than just legal documents.
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Wild Minds: What Animals
Really Think
By Marc D. Hauser, Ted Dewan
What's that squirrel thinking as it
runs across the street? Behavioral neuroscientist Marc D. Hauser asks big questions about
little brains in Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. While his subjects aren't
accessible for interviews, he believes that we can gain insight into their interior lives
by examining their behavior in the context of their social and physical environments.
Thus, while comparing the actions of chimps, rats, honeybees, and human infants, he is
careful to keep in mind that each of them has different needs that require different kinds
of intelligence and emotion and ought not be judged by the same criteria.
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Animal Revolution: Changing
Attitudes Toward Speciesism
By Richard D. Ryder
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