The Speaking Animal: Ethics, Language and the Human-Animal Divide
ISBN: 9781783485123 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? Not only does it inform us of who we are, it also tells us how we should relate to the larger non-human world. The Speaking Animal interrogates the human-animal divide by looking at our linguistic differences - how the speaking human subject is constructed through its opposition to the dumb animal. Alison Suen begins with an analysis of the role of language in animal ethics, with an eye toward the voice/voiceless opposition that is at work in...
Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. How should we understand this human-animal divide? N...
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312,93 zł |
Efficient Livestock Handling: The Practical Application of Animal Welfare and Behavioral Science
ISBN: 9780124186705 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Efficient Livestock Handling: The Practical Application of Animal Welfare and Behavioral Science brings together the science-based disciplines of animal behavior and welfare to discuss how knowledge of one area (behavior) can be used to promote the other. Emphasis is on cattle and horses, but swine, sheep, and goats are also covered. Three major areas are included and integrated into a practical approach to working with the various species. Basic behavior as it applies to handling is discussed, with differences noted between species. The connections of behavior and handling... Efficient Livestock Handling: The Practical Application of Animal Welfare and Behavioral Science brings together the science-based discipli... |
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265,50 zł |
The Animal Trade: Evolution, Ethics and Implications
ISBN: 9781780643137 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Trade is an inevitable part of human activity and evolution, but when it involves animals there are important ethical issues that have to be considered. Animal trade is often for economic reasons only, and may be hard to justify ethically. There are significant welfare and environmental costs to animals and human society that must be carefully evaluated before such a trade is sanctioned.
Controversial and thought-provoking, this text focuses on the trade in live and dead animals and animal parts. It examines the facts and figures to quantify the scope of the animal trade,... Trade is an inevitable part of human activity and evolution, but when it involves animals there are important ethical issues that have to be considere...
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496,03 zł |
Exploring the Gray Zone: Case Discussions of Ethical Dilemmas for the Veterinary Technician
ISBN: 9781557537478 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Veterinary technicians face difficult situations on a daily basis. They dedicate their lives to aiding in the treatment of animals and relieving suffering, serving as each patient's main advocate and caretaker. The veterinary technician holds a unique role in patient care. Acting as the intermediary between the veterinarian prescribing treatment and the patient, they play a large part in the communication and education of clients. Veterinary technicians have greatly expanded their roles and find themselves not only an integral part of veterinary practice, but in research institutions, animal...
Veterinary technicians face difficult situations on a daily basis. They dedicate their lives to aiding in the treatment of animals and relieving suffe...
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264,53 zł |
A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism
ISBN: 9781137554888 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Is vegetarianism morally defensible? Can one even be a vegetarian?
This book asserts that the answers to both these questions is a resounding 'no.' Drawing on the latest research in plant science, systems ecology, environmental philosophy, and cultural anthropology, Andrew F. Smith himself a long-time vegetarian shatters the distinction between vegetarianism and omnivorism. He explains how the world would be better off if we could re-orient the way we think about plants, animals, and the moral reasoning that we use to bolster our belief in such a binary. Smith illustrates how... Is vegetarianism morally defensible? Can one even be a vegetarian?
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192,30 zł |
The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals
ISBN: 9781501317194 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo... In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis fo... |
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728,97 zł |
The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals
ISBN: 9781501317200 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo... In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis fo... |
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150,95 zł |
Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto
ISBN: 9780231172967 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize...
If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand o...
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274,05 zł |
Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto
ISBN: 9780231172974 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand our worldview to see how others consume meat ethically and sustainably. The position of vegans and vegetarians is unrealistic and exclusionary. Eat This Book calls at once for a renewed and vigorous defense of animal rights and a more open approach to meat eating that turns us into responsible carnivores. Lestel skillfully synthesizes Western philosophical views on the moral status of animals and holistic cosmologies that recognize...
If we want to improve the treatment of animals, Dominique Lestel argues, we must acknowledge our evolutionary impulse to eat them and we must expand o...
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93,12 zł |
Political Theory and the Animal/Human Relationship
ISBN: 9781438459899 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence of the animal/human divide, especially upon power dynamics, the discipline in charge of theorizing and studying power--political science and theory--has had little to say about the animal/human. This book seeks to amend this vast oversight. Acknowledging the complexity of the changing differences between animals and humans, the contributors explore such topics as Marx, Freud, the animal, and civilization; dog breeding, racism, and democracy;...
The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence...
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396,11 zł |
Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
ISBN: 9780231178327 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human and animal behavior is not as different as once believed. In Not So Different, the biologist Nathan H. Lents argues that the same...
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, ...
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164,43 zł |
The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America
ISBN: 9780199733156 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss animal protectionism as a modern secular movement that privileges animals over people. Yet the movement's roots are deeply tied to the nation's history of religious revivalism and social reform. In The Gospel of Kindness, Janet M. Davis explores the broad cultural and social influence of the American animal welfare movement at home...
When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrit...
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451,23 zł |
The Political Turn in Animal Ethics
ISBN: 9781783487257 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by interrogating some vital questions about this so-called political turn in animal ethics.. The questions tackled include: What can political philosophy tell us about our moral obligations to animals? Should the boundaries of the demos be expanded to allow for the inclusion of animals? What kind of political system is most appropriate for the...
The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politic...
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342,99 zł |
The Political Turn in Animal Ethics
ISBN: 9781783487240 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politics has been hitherto neglected. This innovative edited collection seeks to redress the imbalance by interrogating some vital questions about this so-called political turn in animal ethics.. The questions tackled include: What can political philosophy tell us about our moral obligations to animals? Should the boundaries of the demos be expanded to allow for the inclusion of animals? What kind of political system is most appropriate for the...
The debate about our treatment of nonhuman animals has been traditionally dominated by moral philosophers, and the crucially important role of politic...
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986,31 zł |
Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia
ISBN: 9780199467228 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires.
As marauding crop raiders, they are despised. As an endangered species, they are cherished. Numerous and often contrasting are the ways in which elephants have been regarded by humans across millennia. Today, with reduced forest cover, human population expansion, and increasing industrialization, interaction between the two species is unavoidable and conflict is not mere happenstance. What, then, is the future of this relationship? In South Asia, human-elephant relationships resonate with cultural... As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires.
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314,14 zł |
Animals in the Third Reich
ISBN: 9780922558704 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This important book explores the relationship between the Third Reich and animals -- as symbols, as myths, and as living creatures. From a review in Choice: "Rarely does a book contribute to two fields so significantly as this one. Sax, an independent scholar and consultant to various human rights organizations, has written the first book to explore thoroughly the Nazi cult of animals. In a way, this book reads like a mystery novel, as it uncovers some of the chief paradoxes of Nazi ideology. The Nazis promoted vegetarianism and passed the most progressive anti-cruelty laws the world has ever...
This important book explores the relationship between the Third Reich and animals -- as symbols, as myths, and as living creatures. From a review in C...
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76,43 zł |
Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781349329120 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center is the pivotal question: What is the moral significance of animal suffering?
Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human e...
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384,63 zł |
Policing Wildlife: Perspectives on the Enforcement of Wildlife Legislation
ISBN: 9781349486021 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. The book considers how enforcement regimes need to adapt to contemporary wildlife crime threats, particularly those posed by terrorism and organised crime.
Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. The book considers how...
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576,96 zł |
The Animal Trade: Evolution, Ethics and Implications
ISBN: 9781786391476 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Trade is an inevitable part of human activity and evolution, but when it involves animals there are important ethical issues that have to be considered. Animal trade is often for economic reasons only, and may be hard to justify ethically. There are significant welfare and environmental costs to animals and human society that must be carefully evaluated before such a trade is sanctioned.
Controversial and thought-provoking, this text focuses on the trade in live and dead animals and animal parts. It examines the facts and figures to quantify the scope of the animal trade,... Trade is an inevitable part of human activity and evolution, but when it involves animals there are important ethical issues that have to be considere...
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180,33 zł |
The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy
ISBN: 9780226318325 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why would thousands of British citizens line up to voluntarily euthanize household pets? In The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, Hilda Kean unearths the history, piecing together the compelling story of the life--and death--of Britain's wartime animal companions. She explains that fear of imminent Nazi bombing and the desire to do...
The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were ...
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438,48 zł |