HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATURE Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century. The imaginative (and actual) construction of landscapes and the appropriation of Nature - through image-fashioning, curating museum and zoo collections, making 'friends', 'enemies' and mythical symbols from animals - are recurring subjects. Among the volume's thought-provoking essays are a group enmeshing nature and the visual culture of photography and film. Canonical environmental history themes, from colonialism to conservation, are re-inflected by discourses including gender studies, Romanticism, politics and technology. The loci of the studies included here represent both the microcosmic - underwater laboratory, zoo, film studio; and broad canvases - the German forest, the Rocky Mountains, the islands of Haiti and Madagascar. Their casts too are richly varied - from Britain's otters and Africa's Nile crocodiles to Hollywood film-makers and South African cattle. The volume represents an excitingly diverse collection of studies of how humans, in imagination and deed, act on and are acted on by 'wild things'.

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 Tolstoy, George Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding theoretical chapters. Clear, original, and provocative, The Aesthetics of Care introduces and makes new contributions to a number of burgeoning areas of study and debate: aesthetics and ethics, critical theory, animal ethics, and ecofeminist criticism.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.

Animals are our best friends, and they are one of the best gifts that life has to offer. We need to care for animals, and treat them the way, that we want to be treated, and that is with love, kindness, and respect, because the animals of the world are also our future. This is a rhyming children's book, that will teach young children the importance of caring for animals, and it will show them that an animal is more than just a cute and cuddly friend, because they also need our love and gentle care.

'N Unieke versameling 49 historiese foto's met die oorspronklike onderskrifte oor roei, visvang en jag in Newfoundland en Labrador, Kanada 1965-1966 . Insluitend grafiese beelde van 'n seel jag] Geneem deur John Penny n 18-jarige vrywillige Service Overseas (VSO) onderwyser uit die Verenigde Koninkryk wat gewoon en gewerk het in die plaaslike gemeenskap skool 1965-66. Die foto's maak 'n belangrike bydrae tot die kulturele, opvoedkundige en natuurlike geskiedenis van die tydperk en pragtig uitbeeld van die ryk tapisserie van die lewe in en rondom Nain in die tyd. Elke foto album fokus op verskillende aspekte van die gemeenskap se leefwyse. Let wel: Sommige lesers kan 'n paar van die foto's te versteur. Cover foto: herstel nette op die Wharfe; foto's met vergunning John Penny] Afrikaans Edition]

'Born to Fly' is a poignant and heart warming story based on true-life adventures of captive birds being safely released back into nature...blended with a fictional story about a Rainbow Lorikeet named Cherub. It is predominantly a book for all ages, for storytelling and learning is universal. 'Born to Fly' is also a metaphor for us all - to free ourselves to live happy, fulfilling and creative lives...and as we do this we automatically assist others to do the same. It is this inherent wisdom that Cherub and her friends are lovingly and patiently teaching us. As caretakers and guardians of the natural world, our role is to observe and delight in the many wondrous miracles and beauty of nature. It is also to teach each and every one of our children this precious gift, so we can all truly fly free.

More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the key isues in this sometimes acrimonious debate.

Pure gold and deeply thought-provoking. This is the second generously sized instalment of Dr Jackie Jones-Hunt's paradigm shattering Animal Souls serialized research. The first instalment being the acclaimed Proof Animals Have Souls. These instalments are receiving scores of fantastic reviews from professors, animal charities, celebrities and old and young lay people who feel they are spiritually inclined or simply have an interest in or love of animals or family pet. All readers will have their curiosity satisfied as all want to know where our beloved animal companions go at death and if we too, survive physical death and if we will all be reunited in the end. In this yet again meticulously researched volume we continue to learn that the world's greats from the beginning of time to present day taught and continue to teach the human animal to elevate his/her spirituality to embrace all-inclusive compassion for fellow animals who share this planet with us. Here, we learn what the great teachers of the world had to say about the callously indifferent cruelty humanity inflicts on animals leading to violence, murder and war for humanity. We learn that our actions implicate us in the shared responsibility for the mass-slaughter of animals and most individuals have unknowingly played his/her part in creating the current multi-million dollar animal slaughter industry. One American pre-publication review, highly recommending this serialization, stated all animals will applaud the compassionate world this well-researched work can create. This volume provides an invaluable summary of quotations from the most elevated spiritual teachers and prophets to those who have made and continue to make great contributions to the world. This is a great book to dip into and use as a reference manual for all ages especially those who consider themselves to be environmentally aware and/or spiritual truth-seekers.

Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artefact. A creature of supposedly little memory and short lifespan, it has universal appeal. In ancient China, goldfish were saved from predators in acts of religious reverence and selectively bred for their glittering grace. In the East, they became the subject of exquisite art, regarded as living flowers that moved, while in the West, they became ubiquitous residents of the Victorian parlour. Cheap and eminently available, today they are bred by the millions for the growing domestic pet market, while also proving to be important to laboratory studies of perception, vision and intelligence. In this illuminating homage to the goldfish, Anna Marie Roos challenges the cultural preconceptions of a creature often thought to be common and disposable, as she blends art and science to trace the surprising and intriguing history of this much-loved animal.

Rhino occupy a unique part of the food chain and wide niches in specific ecosystems in which they have developed their own behaviour patterns and interactions with other species. They form an essential part of the animal kingdom and their loss would have significant ramifications for other dependant flora and fauna. The large numbers of rhino orphans and the loss of pregnant females are decimating wild rhino populations. This decline is mainly due to poaching for their horns that are made of keratin and which have no proven medical benefit to humans. Greedy markets in China, Vietnam and Yemen, and criminal syndicates offer extremely high prices for rhino horn making it more valuable than gold. Whilst tackling the poachers head on is essential, it is sadly not enough and vigorous education programmes need to be put in place to inform people of the ecological, economic, aesthetic and touristic value of rhino. This book is dedicated to the plight all rhino species face including museum specimens and fossils.