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Innocent Victims - Rescuing the stranded animals of Zimbabwe's farm invasions (Paperback): Catherine Buckle Innocent Victims - Rescuing the stranded animals of Zimbabwe's farm invasions (Paperback)
Catherine Buckle
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beautiful Joe (Paperback): Marshall Saunders Beautiful Joe (Paperback)
Marshall Saunders
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kitty Ballou's Sanctuary Zoo (Hardcover): Cindy Shirley Kitty Ballou's Sanctuary Zoo (Hardcover)
Cindy Shirley; Edited by Cailey Elizabeth Ann Shirley; Illustrated by Cleoward Sy
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Dane - The Great Dane (Paperback): Francois Kiesgen De Richter The Great Dane - The Great Dane (Paperback)
Francois Kiesgen De Richter
R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Underdogs - Pets, People, and Poverty (Hardcover): Arnold Arluke, Andrew Rowan Underdogs - Pets, People, and Poverty (Hardcover)
Arnold Arluke, Andrew Rowan
R3,630 Discovery Miles 36 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing dogs and cats. These efforts succeeded by the turn of the century, and it appeared as though most pets were being sterilized and given at least basic veterinary care, including vaccinations and treatments for medical problems such as worms or mange. However, in recent years animal activists and veterinarians have acknowledged that these efforts only reached pet owners in advantaged communities, leaving over twenty million pets unsterilized, unvaccinated, and untreated in underserved communities. The problem of getting basic veterinary services to dogs and cats in low-income communities has suddenly become spotlighted as a major issue facing animal shelters, animal rescue groups, animal control departments, and veterinarians in the United States and abroad. In the past five to ten years, animal protection organizations have launched a new focus trying to deliver basic and even more advanced veterinary care to the many underserved pets in the Unites States. These efforts pose a challenge to these groups as does pet keeping to people living in poverty across most of the world who have pets or care for street dogs.

The bloodhound - The bloodhound (Paperback): Francois Kiesgen de Richte The bloodhound - The bloodhound (Paperback)
Francois Kiesgen de Richte
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beastly Natures - Animals, Humans, and the Study of History (Paperback): Dorothee Brantz Beastly Natures - Animals, Humans, and the Study of History (Paperback)
Dorothee Brantz
R1,066 R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Save R55 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild. The book begins with a group of essays that approach the historical relevance of human-animal relations seen from the perspectives of various disciplines and suggest ways in which animals might be brought into formal studies of history. Differences in species and location can greatly affect the shape of human-animal interaction, and so the essays that follow address a wide spectrum of topics, including the demanding fate of the working horse, the complex image of the American alligator (at turns a dangerous predator and a tourist attraction), the zoo gardens of Victorian England, the iconography of the rhinoceros and the preference it reveals in society for myth over science, relations between humans and wolves in Europe, and what we can learn from society's enthusiasm for "political" animals, such as the pets of the American presidents and the Soviet Union's "space dogs." Taken together, these essays suggest new ways of looking not only at animals but at human history. Contributors Mark V. Barrow Jr., Virginia Tech * Peter Edwards, Roehampton University * Kelly Enright, Rutgers University * Oliver Hochadel, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona * Uwe Lubken, Rachel Carson Center, Munich * Garry Marvin, Roehampton University * Clay McShane, Northeastern University * Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech * Susan Pearson, Northwestern University * Helena Pycior, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee * Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee * Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University * Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University

Proverbs on Animals, Plants and Nature (Paperback): Noel Marie Fletcher Proverbs on Animals, Plants and Nature (Paperback)
Noel Marie Fletcher; Compiled by Noel Marie Fletcher; Illustrated by Noel Marie Fletcher
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bridge to Animal Consciousness (Paperback): Annie Bourke The Bridge to Animal Consciousness (Paperback)
Annie Bourke
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pork - Or the Dangers of Pork-eating Exposed (Annotated) (Paperback): John Harvey Kellogg Pork - Or the Dangers of Pork-eating Exposed (Annotated) (Paperback)
John Harvey Kellogg
R139 Discovery Miles 1 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Such Small Hands - An Anti-Aversives Primer (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Rain Jordan Such Small Hands - An Anti-Aversives Primer (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Rain Jordan
R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blossom The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury (Paperback): Anna Carner Blossom The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury (Paperback)
Anna Carner
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nobody Told Me My Legs Don't Work - Journey of a Down Dog (Paperback): Travis C Yates Nobody Told Me My Legs Don't Work - Journey of a Down Dog (Paperback)
Travis C Yates; Foreword by Frick
R285 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R15 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conservation Collection AU - Critically Endangered - Mammals (Paperback): Hannah Rowland, Sophie Corso Conservation Collection AU - Critically Endangered - Mammals (Paperback)
Hannah Rowland, Sophie Corso
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Infamous - Tiger King 2: Sanctuary: Special Edition (Paperback): Michael Frizell Infamous - Tiger King 2: Sanctuary: Special Edition (Paperback)
Michael Frizell; Contributions by Joe Paradise; Cover design or artwork by Jesse Johnson
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Infamous - Tiger King 2: Sanctuary (Paperback): Michael Frizell Infamous - Tiger King 2: Sanctuary (Paperback)
Michael Frizell; Contributions by Joe Paradise
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tiger Wars - Joe Exotic vs. The Big Cat Queen (Paperback): Al Cimino Tiger Wars - Joe Exotic vs. The Big Cat Queen (Paperback)
Al Cimino 1
R290 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The global smash-hit Netflix documentary mini-series, Tiger King, introduced viewers to the weird, crazy and chaotic life of private zoo owner and big cat breeder, Joe Exotic, and his war against Carole Baskin. Baskin, who runs the Big Cat Rescue in Florida, a sanctuary for abused and abandoned wild cats, waged a long legal battle to have Joe's exotic animal park in Oklahoma shut down for the maltreatment of his animals. But Carole had her own dark past and Joe wasn't going down without a fight; he responded by plotting to have her murdered. Tiger Wars delves deeper into this stranger-than-fiction tale and tells the shocking story of this big cat war, the cult-like characters involved and the spiral of obsession that landed Joe Exotic in jail and exposed the dark heart of America's big cat obsession.

Blossom The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury - The True Tale of an Amazing Deer (Hardcover): Anna Carner Blossom The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury - The True Tale of an Amazing Deer (Hardcover)
Anna Carner; Contributions by Jeanne Troast; Cover design or artwork by Suzanne Johnson
R730 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On the Fifth Day - The Histories and Religions on Animal Welfare (Paperback): A.J. Watson On the Fifth Day - The Histories and Religions on Animal Welfare (Paperback)
A.J. Watson; Edited by Mary-Elizabeth Watson
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Running for Good - The Fiona Oakes Story (Paperback): Fiona Oakes Running for Good - The Fiona Oakes Story (Paperback)
Fiona Oakes
R610 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder At the Lighthouse (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Frances Evesham Murder At the Lighthouse (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Frances Evesham
R982 R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Save R115 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Have you ever found a body on the beach?Recently widowed Libby Forest arrives in the small coastal town of Exham-on-Sea, keen to start a new life baking cakes and designing chocolates. Walking on the beach one stormy autumn day, Libby and excitable Springer Spaniel 'Shipley' discover a dead body under the lighthouse. Convinced the death was no accident, Libby teams up with Max Ramshore, an attractive local resident, and Bear, a huge sheepdog, to confront indifference from the community and unmask the killer. Murder at the Lighthouse is the first in a series of Exham-on-Sea Murder Mysteries set at the small English seaside town full of quirky characters, sea air and gossip. If you love Agatha Christie-style mysteries, cosy crime, clever dogs and cake, then you'll love these intriguing whodunnits. THE EXHAM-ON-SEA MURDER MYSTERIES: 1. Murder at the Lighthouse 2. Murder on the Levels: 3. Murder on the Tor: 4. Murder at the Cathedral 5. Murder at the Bridge 6. Murder at the Castle 7. Murder at the Gorge 8. Murder at the Abbey Other Books by Frances Evesham in the Ham Hill Murder Mystery series A Village Murder A Racing Murder A Harvest Murder Here's what readers are saying about the series:'This is a perfect short, cosy mystery.' 'It makes you wonder if English country villages are safe places to live. But I certainly would given half a chance.' 'Frances Evesham has invented an array of lively village personalities to get in Libby's way from her Goth teenage lodger to the pompous chair of the women's group or the rude but kindly garage proprietor." 'With every book, I grow more fond of Libby and Exham.' 'If you like Miss Marple this amateur sleuth will enthral you.'

The Call of the Wild (Paperback): Jack London The Call of the Wild (Paperback)
Jack London
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
USTAD Master of Ranthambhore - the untold story (Paperback): Nita Smith USTAD Master of Ranthambhore - the untold story (Paperback)
Nita Smith
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Animal Book (Paperback): Michael Harren The Animal Book (Paperback)
Michael Harren; Introduction by Adam Fitzgerald
R734 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Tightarse Tuesday Book Club (Paperback): Duncan Smith The Tightarse Tuesday Book Club (Paperback)
Duncan Smith
R364 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R19 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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