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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.
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.'
This book is an attempt to lead the way through the moral maze that
is our relationship with nonhuman animals. Written by an author
with an established reputation in this field, the book takes the
reader step by step through the main parameters of the debate,
demonstrating at each turn the different positions adopted. In the
second part of the book, the implications of holding each position
for the ethical permissibility of what is done to animals - in
laboratories, farms, the home and the wild - are explained.
Garner starts by asking whether animals have any moral standing
before moving on to assess exactly what degree of moral status
ought to be accorded to them. It is suggested that whilst animals
should not be granted the same moral status as humans, they are
worthy of greater moral consideration than the orthodox animal
welfare position allows. As a result, it is suggested that many of
the ways we currently treat animals are morally illegitimate.
In the final chapter, the issue of political praxis is tackled.
How are reforms to the ways in which animals are treated to be
achieved? This book suggests that currently dominant debates about
insider status and direct action are less important than the
question of agency. That is, the important question is not what is
done to change the way animals are treated as much as whom is to be
mobilised to join the cause.
Students of philosophy, politics and environmental issues will
find this an essential textbook.
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.
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