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  • Animal Ethics

    Series series Ciencia
    If today's human lived alongside other less endowed human species than ours (some sort of Neanderthal or Homo habilis) we would respect their differences and not consider them beings that we can use for our service. However, the fact that the closest species on the evolutionary scale to us, is the chimpanzee, puts us in a more delicate situation: to what extent do they suffer, are they masters of ... Leer más

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  • The Secret of Our Success

    How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that ... Leer más

    $261 MXN

  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series 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 ... Leer más

    $138 MXN

  • The Archaeology of Human Ancestry

    Power, Sex and Tradition

    Edición de Stephen Shennan, James Steele ...
    Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate ... Leer más

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  • Fellow Creatures

    Our Obligations to the Other Animals

    Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to ... Leer más

    $296 MXN

  • Mortal Rituals

    What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution

    A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed "The Miracle of the Andes" can show us about human evolution.On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Primate Visions

    Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science

    Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research. ... Leer más

    $1,435 MXN

  • Animal Rights Without Liberation

    Applied Ethics and Human Obligations

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous ... Leer más

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  • Coming Home to the Pleistocene

    de Paul Shepard ...
    "When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams, we will be on the way to a long overdue reconciliation between opposites which are of our own making." --from Coming Home to the PleistocenePaul ... Leer más

    $423 MXN

  • Flammable : Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

    Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown

    Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator and an unmonitored landfill Flammable's soil air and water are contaminated with lead chromium benzene and other chemicals. So are its nearly five thousand sickened and frail inhabitants. ... Leer más

    $482 MXN

  • Animal Rights, Human Wrongs

    An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

    de Tom Regan ...
    What gives an animal 'rights?' What makes product testing on animals wrong? In Animal Rights, Human Wrongs prominent activist and philosopher Tom Regan skillfully puts forth the argument for animal rights through the exploration of two questions central to moral theory: What makes an act right? What makes an act wrong? Taking into consideration moral theories such as contractarianism, ... Leer más

    $637 MXN

  • Ways of Sensing

    Understanding the Senses In Society

    Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power ... Leer más

    $1,158 MXN