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  • Homo destructus
    Uday Kagal
    This book is my parting gift, so to speak, to 'voiceless' animals and future generations. It comprehensively reviews our gross mistreatment of animals across spheres - stray and pet companion animals, animals on factory farms, and wildlife. It is a small book with a short message: prevent animal cruelty. But it also carries a more ominous lesson for younger and future generat...
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    18,86 €

  • In Defense of Animalhood
    Riya Aarini
    Sharing the planet with other species can go awry at times. This collection of humor expresses just how twisted things can get. From Miami macaws trying to protect their young from poachers to captive polar bears wanting nothing more than to hunt seals on the Arctic ice to circus tigers loathing performance, animals have had it. In Defense of Animalhood gives animal lovers a fr...
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    9,72 €

  • The Mighty Jungle
    Paul A. Lynch
     Modern zoos have multiple goals, including animal welfare, conservation, education, research, and entertainment. To evaluate the effectiveness of zoos in achieving these goals, it is important to study the effects of animal-visitor interactions.Research has shown that interventions based on exhibit design, species characteristics, and visitor education can increase positive an...
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    15,25 €

  • Spiritual Health & Wellness
    Live From The Volcano
    In this volume we turn our focus on the health and well-being of creatures other than humans; aka animals which -- like children -- embody some of the purest forms of innocence on the planet. Innocence that has been, and is still, unfortunately sometimes exploited by humanity in soul-destroying ways. Luckily those of us who are familiar with the awesome power of prayer know suc...
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    31,71 €

  • Peabody Girl Dog-gone Good
    Nancy LeBaron Kiley
    In a world where we often prioritize our own wants and needs, it’s important to remember that animals deserve the same kindness, caring, and love as we do. They play a crucial role in maintaining the delicate balance of our ecosystem, and without them, our world would be in a heap of trouble. As we continue to encroach on their habitats, it’s crucial that we respect the presenc...
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    15,88 €

  • The Mighty Jungle
    Paul A. Lynch
    Birds have a far-reaching influence in the environment; from providing food for other animals and humans to playing a vital role in maintaining the balance of natural ecosystems. With approximately 13% of current extant bird species being considered globally threatened with extinction, it is clear that their importance to the environment is increasingly under pressure. Birds ar...
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    15,45 €

  • Sacred Animal Activism
    Vikki Koplick
    Awakening the Spiritual Bond Between Humans and AnimalsFrom the sacred heart of Australia to the universal call for compassion, Sacred Animal Activism is a profound guide for those who long to honor and protect animals on both a physical and spiritual level.In this inspiring work, Vikki shares her lifelong journey of awakening-from a childhood immersed in the rhythms of nature ...
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    21,54 €

  • Wild Diplomacy
    Baptiste Morizot / Catherine Porter
    Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls 'diplomacy with living beings.'...
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    49,58 €

  • I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks
    E. L. Armstrong
    Ever been bored by ecology? Ever felt vegan curious? Ever thought vegans were dicks?I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks is the book about the climate emergency for the people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading such bollocks.Earth is dying and it’s our own silly fault. Talking seriously about the end of the world is dangerously ineffective - it’s time we laughed to keep from weep...
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    14,12 €

  • Lucha animal
    Javier Ballarín
    ¿Qué derechos tienen los animales? ¿Te lo has planteado alguna vez? Este libro pretende analizar las principales preguntas que surgen cuando se habla de respetar a los animales.¿Has pensado que, igual que el ser humano, los demás animales son seres con sentimientos?, ¿que están en el mundo para disfrutar plenamente de sus vidas y no para servirnos? El veganismo defiende que las...
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    17,58 €

  • Animal Models
    Meadowbrook Jones
    After losing his best friend and getting kicked out of his home, Jeremy finds himself on the streets-cold, hungry and in danger of becoming a chicken nugget. Until he notices a want ad in the paper looking for Animal Models.Thinking this is just the break he needs, he decides to answer the ad. But soon discovers that being an Animal Model is more than he bargained for. ...
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    20,23 €

  • The Spark Day Poems
    His Person / Quilliam Horace Flint
    Spark Day celebrates the beauty, goodness, and heart that we have the chance to cultivate with each decision we make. Little decisions, like whether to plant seeds or not bother, whether to smile and nod to passersby or remain aloof in our own world, whether to use a plastic straw or forego it to help ensure less dangerous plastic pollution corrupts our environment and those w...
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    24,20 €

  • Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War
    Matthew Leep
    Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.In Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War, Matthew Leep develops a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, this book...
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    46,31 €

  • ’I Can’t Watch Anymore’
    Julie Taylor
    ’Catalogues what happens to sport horses in plain sight ... should be compulsory reading for all of us who care about horses.’ - Professor Paul McGreevy BVSc, PhD, FRCVS; author, Equine BehaviourPassionate, yet rigorous and meticulously researched, this eye-opening book holds equestrian sport up to Olympic standards and finds it sadly wanting.Doping agents that used to cost Oly...
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    16,11 €

  • We Walk Beside You Book 2
    Sandra Mendelson
    Through the vehicle of telepathy, Sandra Mendelson provides us with animal guidance as a powerful tool for our daily lives. For the past decade, Sandra has channeled and communicated with thousands of animals from over 85 species of the land, sea and air. Her first book and deck of message cards -- We Walk Beside You: Animal Messages for An Awakening World (2017) --took home th...
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    22,14 €

  • Ecolibrium
    Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri / Al-Hafiz B.AMasri / Mehran Banaei / Nadeem Haque
    Ecolibrium: The Sacred Balance in Islam presents the precepts and applications of a totally rational belief system where the distinction between religion and secularism is meaningless. The book demonstrates that the optimal solution to our mounting socio-environmental problems is achievable if only we were to return to an integrated way of thinking and living-of indeed organizi...
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    32,14 €

  • Vivisection
    Albert Leffingwell
    A message against cruelty to animal, a plea against vivisection! Albert Leffingwell was a noted American physician, social reformer, and vocal advocate for vivisection reform. His books helped to bring light to the cruel abuses of animal experimentation and called for regulation. He was way ahead of his time in his approach to animal welfare. He is indeed an interesting turn-of...
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    9,57 €

  • Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism
    Anna Bonus Kingsford
    A Plea for Vegetarianism !Anna Kingsford (née Bonus) was one of the first women to become a physician in England; mystic and poet; feminist; and ardent anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian. She was way ahead of his time in her approach to dietetics. She is indeed an interesting turn-of-the-century writer whose ideas have been greatly influential and whose books are still worth re...
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    12,31 €

  • Some Fantastic Place
    Randy Shields
    Stories about animals and the people who help them: a successful community effort to protect migrating toads, the 1983 protests that ignited the modern day animal rights movement, a kitten rescued from the middle of a busy road, a visit to a factory pig farm. There are also tributes to animal rights philosopher Prof. Tom Regan, singer/pianist/composer (and animal activist) Laur...
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    23,47 €

  • Infamous
    Michael Frizell
    Over 70-pages of the Tiger King! Viewers worldwide were riveted by Netflix’s seven-episode reality series exploring the infamous and self-proclaimed 'Tiger King.' The flamboyant Joe Exotic, a former magician, country singer, and zookeeper with a troubled past, currently sits in jail for planning to murder his rival, Big Cat Rescue owner and animal rights activist Carole Baskin,...
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    20,27 €

  • Re/Thinking Chickens
    Elena Lazutkaite
    Re/Thinking Chickens: The Discourse around Chicken Farming in British Newspapers and Campaigners’ Magazines, 1982–2016 has major social relevance as it focuses on one of the most forgotten and yet most exploited farmed animals, chickens, who now have a combined mass exceeding that of all other birds on Earth. Dr Elena Lazutkaitė demonstrates that the planet’s most numerous bird...
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    70,06 €

  • The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
    Anna Feuerstein
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    56,56 €

  • Animal Welfare in China
    Peter J Li
    The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, speculation about the origins of the virus have sparked global curiosity Speculation about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked curiosity about how animals are treated, traded and consumed in China today.In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfa...
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    25,25 €

  • A condição animal
    Maria Cristina Brugnara Veloso
    O estudo em questão dedica-se à reflexão filosófica, ética e jurídica sobre a condição dos animais na modernidade. Aborda-se as raízes históricas da exclusão moral dos animais, as recentes teorias que enfrentam uma das mais complexas polêmicas da ética prática, a saber, a inclusão de seres não humanos na esfera da moral e jurídica e as implicações decorrentes. A emergência da t...
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    17,63 €

  • Because We Live Here
    Natasha Devine
    BECAUSE WE LIVE HERE!: A Treatise on Freedom and National Continuity is a book for those who still care about American pride and tradition, but are seeking a living path towards National continuity into the future. ...
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    20,00 €

  • Five Essays for Freedom
    Kristy Alger
    Animal liberationist and emerging avant-garde theorist, Kristy Alger, provides a scathing, provocative expose of the animal industrial complex in Five Essays for Freedom. Contextualised in current-day Australia, this essay collection is a political primer for the animal advocate, both curious and experienced alike. Alger writes that an understanding of the politics of animal ex...
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    19,62 €

  • Save our Planet Earth
    Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD / Peter A.JHolst MD PhD
    For half a century, Mother Earth has given man dominion over his own reproduction and the reproduction of all animals and plants on Earth. We are therefore indebted to repair the damage we cause. Meat and eggs for consumption are now exclusively produced by artificial insemination and with breeding and incubators. More than 300 million farm animals in the EU spend their entire ...
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    16,68 €

  • Infamous
    Michael Frizell
    The sequel to the cult-classic comic book. Viewers worldwide were riveted by Netflix’s seven-episode reality series exploring the infamous and self-proclaimed 'Tiger King.' Joe Exotic’s jaw-dropping antics and the bewildering choices he made led to a conviction for attempted murder, violations of the Lacey Act, and twenty-two years in Federal prison. But what happened to the a...
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    7,51 €

  • Infamous
    Michael Frizell
    Special edition to the sequel of the cult classic comic book biography. Viewers worldwide were riveted by Netflix’s seven-episode reality series exploring the infamous and self-proclaimed 'Tiger King.' Joe Exotic’s jaw-dropping antics and the bewildering choices he made led to a conviction for attempted murder, violations of the Lacey Act, and twenty-two years in Federal prison...
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    9,76 €

  • Los inseparables
    Gianni Ravazzi
    Los inseparables son pe-queños papagayos africanos, de gran colorido, vivaces y sociables; llaman también la atención porque viven siempre junto a su compañero; siempre unidos, expresan toda su alegría, sus espléndidos colores y mantienen una buena convivencia con las personas. Desde la clasificación científica a la morfología, de los hábitos alimentarios y sociales a los diver...
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    26,99 €


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