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"This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than
take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. It takes you
inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on
and on. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took
real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and
aching detail."
-Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling
author
"An insightful and detailed look at the complex life of a zoo and
its denizens, both animal and human."
-Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi" and "Beatrice and Virgil"
Welcome to the savage and surprising world of "Zoo Story," an
unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its
inhabitants. Based on six years of research, the book follows a
handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an
alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who
revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO
known as El Diablo Blanco.
The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah
to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a
place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison.
"Zoo Story" shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how
some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire
to both exalt and control nature.
A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights,
ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the
cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting,
habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that
people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our
hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a
consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In
Justice for Animals, one of the world's most influential
philosophers and humanists Martha C. Nussbaum provides a
revolutionary approach to animal rights, ethics, and law. From
dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the
entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder,
awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in
which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or
users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own
way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm.
An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaum's
groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our
ethical responsibilities as no book has done before.
In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate
attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses by which
they might make sense other than under continued license of the
subject that calls himself man. Drawing extensively from Jacques
Derrida's philosophy in precise dialogue with feminist thought,
animal studies and posthumanism, this book explores the
vulnerability of the living as rooted in non-oppositional
differences. From abjection to mourning, to the speculative and the
performative, it reposes concepts and buzzwords seemingly at home
in feminist theory, visual culture and the humanities more broadly.
Stepping away from the carno-phallogocentric legacies of the
signifier and the dialectic, Poetics of Deconstruction asks you to
welcome nonpower into politics, always sexual but no longer
anchored in sacrifice.
Ethology, or how animals relate to their environments, is currently
enjoying increased academic attention. A prominent figure in this
scholarship is Gilles Deleuze and yet, the significance of his
relational metaphysics to ethology has still not been scrutinised.
Jason Cullen's book is the first text to analyse Deleuze's
philosophical ethology and he prioritises the theorist's
examination of how beings relate to each other. For Cullen,
Deleuze's Cinema books are integral to this investigation and he
highlights how they expose a key Deleuzian theme: that beings are
fundamentally continuous with each other. In light of this
continuity then, Cullen reveals that how beings understand each
other shapes them and allows them to transform their shared worlds.
Rain is lashing down when Barby Keel is called out to an emergency
unfolding at the gates of her animal sanctuary, deep in the Sussex
countryside. A greyhound had been dumped under the cover of
darkness, and is at death's door. In the 37 years she has dedicated
her life to the welfare of animals, Barby has witnessed the horrors
that humans are capable of, but never has she seen anything as
barbaric as this poor dog's condition. Cigarette burns scar his
flank, and he is so malnourished that he struggles to stand, every
rib showing through his patchy fur. It's touch-and-go whether he
will survive the night. The dog, who Barby names Bailey, proves he
has a fighting spirit and, slowly but surely, begins the long road
to recovery. But Barby is facing her own battle with ill health -
one that threatens the future of the entire sanctuary... Will You
Love Me? is an emotional, joyful true story of the deepest bond
that exists between humans and animals, and shows how in rescuing
others, we can rescue ourselves.
Building on discussions originating in post-humanism, the
non-philosophy of Francois Laruelle, and the science of "species
being of humanity" stemming from Marx's critique of philosophy,
Katerina Kolozova proposes a radical consideration of capitalism's
economic exploitation of life. This book uses Francois Laruelle's
work to think through questions of "practical ethics" and bring the
abstract tools of Laruelle's non-philosophy into conversation with
other critical methods in the humanities. Kolozova centres the
question of the animal at the very heart of what it means for us as
human beings to think and act in the world, and the mistreatment of
animality that underpins the logic of capitalism.
Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and
anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other
primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social
spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to primate
studies in the twenty-first century. Offering an insight into the
investigation and documentation of human-nonhuman primate relations
in the Anthropocene, this book guides the reader through the
preparation, design, implementation, and analysis of an
ethnoprimatological research project, offering practical examples
of the vast array of methods and techniques at chapter level. With
contributions from the world's leading experts in the field,
Ethnoprimatology critically analyses current primate conservation
efforts, outlines their major research questions, theoretical bases
and methods, and tackles the challenges and complexities involved
in mixed-methods research. Documenting the spectrum of current
research in the field, it is an ideal volume for students and
researchers in ethnoprimatology, primatology, anthropology, and
conservation biology.
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