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The Vegan Activist - Get Active in Activism for the Animals (Paperback): Lee Fox-Smith The Vegan Activist - Get Active in Activism for the Animals (Paperback)
Lee Fox-Smith
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Raggylug, the Cottontail Rabbit and Other Animal Stories with Lobo, Rag, and Vixen (Paperback): Ernest Thompson Seton Raggylug, the Cottontail Rabbit and Other Animal Stories with Lobo, Rag, and Vixen (Paperback)
Ernest Thompson Seton
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thou Shall Not Kill - What does God think about the killing of animals? (Paperback): Kenneth Edward Barnes Thou Shall Not Kill - What does God think about the killing of animals? (Paperback)
Kenneth Edward Barnes
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Writing for Animals - New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire (Paperback): John Yunker Writing for Animals - New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire (Paperback)
John Yunker
R521 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R37 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Elephant's Story (Paperback): Jamie Renee Heraver An Elephant's Story (Paperback)
Jamie Renee Heraver
R316 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R23 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Obaysch - A Hippopotamus in Victorian London (Paperback): John Simons Obaysch - A Hippopotamus in Victorian London (Paperback)
John Simons; Edited by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London tells the remarkable story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first 'star' animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo. In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and deerhounds. His arrival in London was greeted with a wave of 'hippomania', doubling the number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens almost overnight. Delving into the circumstances of Obaysch's capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the phenomenon of 'star' animals in Victorian Britain against the backdrop of an expanding British Empire. He shows how the entangled aims of scientific exploration, commercial ambition, and imperial expansion shaped the treatment of exotic animals throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Along the way, he uncovers the strange and moving stories of Obaysch and the other hippos who joined him in Europe as the trade in zoo animals grew. 'A fascinating microscopic and telescopic look at the life of Victorian England's most famous animal. John Simons' richly exhaustive account of nineteenth-century hippomania engages with imperialism, Orientalism, progress, and the cultural history of Europe where Obaysch, captured from an island in the Nile River, had the misfortune to spend his life as a blockbuster attraction at the London Zoo. Poignant and empathetic, this account of an animal's appropriation and exploitation is one of those books that unfurls more about its moment in time than you could have imagined when you picked it up.' Professor Randy Malamud, Georgia State University

Sentientist Politics - A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice (Hardcover): Alasdair Cochrane Sentientist Politics - A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice (Hardcover)
Alasdair Cochrane
R2,605 Discovery Miles 26 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the harms that can be perpetrated against animals. The primary aim of this book is to show that the political implications of animal sentience go even further than this. For this book argues that sentience establishes a moral equality and a shared set of rights amongst those creatures who possess it. Crucially, this worth and these rights create a duty on moral agents to establish and maintain a political order dedicated to their interests. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like. It argues in favour of a ' sentientist cosmopolitan democracy': a global political system made up of overlapping local, national, regional and global communities comprised of human and non-human members who exist within shared 'communities of fate'. Furthermore, the institutions of those communities should be democratic - that is to say, participative, deliberative and representative. Finally, those institutions should include dedicated representatives of non-human animals whose job should be to translate the interests of animals into deliberations over what is in the public good for their communities.

Let live... (Paperback): M. O'Reilly Let live... (Paperback)
M. O'Reilly
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Let live... (Paperback): M. O'Reilly Let live... (Paperback)
M. O'Reilly
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intervention or Protest - Acting for Nonhuman Animals (Paperback): Andrew Woodhall Intervention or Protest - Acting for Nonhuman Animals (Paperback)
Andrew Woodhall
R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Protect sea turtles! (Paperback): M. O'Reilly Protect sea turtles! (Paperback)
M. O'Reilly
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Your Face - From Actor to Animal Activist (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Chris DeRose In Your Face - From Actor to Animal Activist (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Chris DeRose; Edited by Steve Tiger
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Monarchs of Cape May Point (Paperback): Pecki Sherman Witonsky The Monarchs of Cape May Point (Paperback)
Pecki Sherman Witonsky
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (Hardcover): Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (Hardcover)
Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio
R5,090 Discovery Miles 50 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, the 35 newly commissioned essays in this book show how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism and relations as common as friendship.The volume contains original, cutting-edge research and opens up new methods, alignments, directions as well as challenges for the future of Animal Studies. Uniquely, the chapters each focus on a single topic, from 'Abjection' to 'Voice' and from 'Affection' to 'Technology', thus embedding the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines.Key FeaturesProvides in one work prominent scholars in animal studies and their reflections on the trajectory of the fieldEmbeds the 'animal question' as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplinesBrings discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanitiesOpens up new methods, alignments, directions and challenges for the future of animal studiesAfterword from Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University)

Mainly About Wolves (Paperback): Ernest Thompson Seton Mainly About Wolves (Paperback)
Ernest Thompson Seton
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
If Violence Has To Stop, Slaughterhouses Must Close Down - Manifesto For A Slaughter-free Civilization (Paperback): Sahadeva... If Violence Has To Stop, Slaughterhouses Must Close Down - Manifesto For A Slaughter-free Civilization (Paperback)
Sahadeva Dasa
R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Let's Git Outta Here (Paperback): Kate J Kuligowski Let's Git Outta Here (Paperback)
Kate J Kuligowski
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chicken (Paperback): Annie Potts Chicken (Paperback)
Annie Potts 1
R459 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

No creature has been subject to such extremes of reverence and exploitation as the chicken. Hens have been venerated as cosmic creators and roosters as solar divinities. Many cultures have found the mysteries of birth, healing, death and resurrection encapsulated in the hen's egg. Yet today, most of us have nothing to do with chickens as living beings, although billions are consumed around the world every year. In "Chicken" Annie Potts introduces us to the vivid and astonishing world of Gallus gallus. The book traces the evolution of jungle fowl and the domestication of chickens by humans. It describes the ways in which chickens experience the world, form families and friendships, communicate with each other, play, bond, and grieve. "Chicken" explores cultural practices like egg-rolling, the cockfight, alectromancy, wishbone-pulling and the chicken-swinging ritual of Kapparot; discovers depictions of chickenhood in ancient and modern art, literature and film; and also showcases bizarre supernatural chickens from around the world including the Basilisk, Kikimora and Pollio Maligno. "Chicken "concludes with a detailed analysis of the place of chickens in the world today, and a tribute to those who educate and advocate on behalf of these birds. Numerous beautiful illustrations show the many faces (and feathers and combs and tails) of Gallus, from wild roosters in the jungles of Southeast Asia to quirky Naked-Necks and majestic Malays. There are chickens painted by Chagall and Magritte, chickens made of hair-rollers, and chickens shaped like mountains. The reader of "Chicken "will encounter a multitude of intriguing facts and ideas, including why the largest predator ever to walk the earth is considered the ancestor of the modern chicken, how mother hens communicate with their chicks while they're still in the egg, why Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece required him to play a chicken, whether it's safe to take eggs on a sea-voyage, and how "chicken therapy" can rejuvenate us all. This book will fascinate those already familiar with and devoted to the Gallus species, and it will open up a whole new gallinaceous world for future admirers of the intelligent and passionate chicken.

Flush - A Biography (Paperback): Virginia Woolf Flush - A Biography (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Raising Chickens in Your Backyard - Choosing Breeds, Creating a Home, Feeding and Care, Health Care, Egg Production, Layers... Raising Chickens in Your Backyard - Choosing Breeds, Creating a Home, Feeding and Care, Health Care, Egg Production, Layers Management, Chicken Behaviors, and Safety Advice for Flock Owners (Paperback)
Mark B Chase
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Living with Animals - Bonds across Species (Paperback): Natalie Porter, Ilana Gershon Living with Animals - Bonds across Species (Paperback)
Natalie Porter, Ilana Gershon
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides-a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests, among other places. Modeled after the classic A World of Babies, an edited collection of imagined Dr. Spock manuals from around the world-With Animals focuses on human-animal relationships in their myriad forms. This is ethnographic fiction for those curious about how animals are used for a variety of different tasks around the world. To be sure, animal guides are not a universal genre, so Living with Animals offers an imaginative solution, doing justice to the ways details about animals are conveyed in culturally specific ways by adopting a range of voices and perspectives. How we capitalize on animals, how we live with them, and how humans attempt to control the untamable nature around them are all considered by the authors of this wild read. If you have ever experienced a moment of "what if" curiosity-what is it like to be a gorilla in a zoo, to work in a pig factory farm, to breed cows and horses, this book is for you. A light-handed and light-hearted approach to a fascinating and nuanced subject, Living with Animals suggests many ways in which we can and do coexist with our non-human partners on Earth.

A World without Ivory (Paperback): D Vermette A World without Ivory (Paperback)
D Vermette; Julie A. Dickson
R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Born Without a Tail - the Making of an Animal Advocate (Paperback): Bob Tarte Born Without a Tail - the Making of an Animal Advocate (Paperback)
Bob Tarte; C. A. Wulff
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Australian shepherd (Paperback): Francois Kiesgen De Richter The Australian shepherd (Paperback)
Francois Kiesgen De Richter
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The French Bulldog - The French Bulldog (Paperback): Francois Kiesgen De Richter The French Bulldog - The French Bulldog (Paperback)
Francois Kiesgen De Richter
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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