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  • The Probiotic Planet

    Using Life to Manage Life

    af Jamie Lorimer ...
    Serier serie Posthumanities
    Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planetMost of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In fact, the term refers to any intervention in which life is used to manage life—from the microscopic, like consuming fermented food to improve gut health, to macro approaches such as biological pest control and ... Læs mere

    158,49 kr.

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  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    Serier serie Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... Læs mere

    62,80 kr.

  • In Defense of Animals

    The Second Wave

    Redigeret af Peter Singer ...
    Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years agoEssays explore new ... Læs mere

    253,61 kr.

  • Against Purity

    Living Ethically in Compromised Times

    The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, ... Læs mere

    152,86 kr.

  • Animal Rights: All That Matters

    af Mark Rowlands ...
    Serier serie All That Matters
    Are humans really different at all?Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic that's always in the news.Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, is the world's best known philosopher of animal rights. In this introduction to the topic, he starts by asking whether there is anything about humans that makes ... Læs mere

    42,49 kr.

  • Animals Matter

    A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

    Nonhuman animals have many of the same feelings we do. They get hurt, they suffer, they are happy, and they take care of each other. Marc Bekoff, a renowned biologist specializing in animal minds and emotions, guides readers from high school age up—including older adults who want a basic introduction to the topic—in looking at scientific research, philosophical ideas, and humane values that argue ... Læs mere

    133,74 kr.

  • The Ecological Hoofprint

    The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

    af Tony Weis ...
    The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical ... Læs mere

    181,11 kr.

  • A Tapestry of Values

    An Introduction to Values in Science

    The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary theory, vaccine safety, and genetically modified foods has become overly politicized. At the same time, it is clear that values play an important role in science by limiting ... Læs mere

    318,36 kr.

  • Ethics and Animals

    An Introduction

    af Lori Gruen ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Applied Ethics
    In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current ... Læs mere

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  • The Politics of the Pantry

    Stories, Food, and Social Change

    "What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways.These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, alternative food gurus such as Michael Pollan, and numerous other popular ... Læs mere

    167,66 kr.

  • Environmental Crisis

    Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice

    af Bunyan Bryant ...
    Over the years, we have witness unprecedented growth and development that threatens our planet earth as evidenced by environmental degradation, world poverty all of which will be exacerbated by climate change. "Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?" explores the ideas that environmental destruction and injustice is integrally related to unsustainable knowledge and the role that knowledge ... Læs mere

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  • The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement

    A Biocultural Perspective

    The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any ... Læs mere

    308,74 kr.